Two inmates found dead at prison
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Detectives are investigating the deaths of two inmates who were both found hanged at Manchester Prison.
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Two prison guards were fatally shot while on duty in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide that might have stemmed from a domestic dispute.
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An overweight inmate was executed by injection Thursday after a delay of more than an hour while prison medical staff struggled to find suitable veins in his arms.
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Fifty prisoners have killed themselves in jail so far this year, compared to 67 for the whole of 2006.
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An inmate serving a life sentence for sexual assault killed a prison clerk and then committed suicide, authorities said Friday.
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A sheriff calls for the way prisoners are monitored by police to be improved after a death in custody.
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Two prisoners were killed and five  wounded on Wednesday when a fight broke out among hundreds of  detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, the U.S. military  said.
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Six prison employees were slain and their bodies dumped at the high-security federal prison in the border city of Matamoros, state officials said Thursday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A prisoner convicted of  killing a man during a 1994 robbery was put to death on  Wednesday in the first of two scheduled executions this week in  Texas.
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Two men who sought shelter from an erupting volcano in an underground bunker were found dead from burns Friday, officials said.
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A member of a gang which murdered LVF leader Billy Wright in the Maze prison is found dead in his jail cell.
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Two al-Qaeda suspects and five prison guards die in a jailbreak attempt in Kabul, Afghan authorities say.
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Four prisoners are shot dead by US guards during a riot at an Iraqi jail, the US military says.
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Rival inmates fought each other with knives and sticks Wednesday at a San Salvador prison, leaving at least 31 people dead and two dozen injured, officials said.
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KABUL: Five Afghan prison guards and police and four prisoners were killed in a jailbreak attempt by Al Qaeda inmates on Friday, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
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Two U.S. Navy sailors were found dead Tuesday in a hotel room in the West African nation of Ghana, the Navy said.
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Two inmates escape from prison by scaling a fence with a homemade ladder.