Man Shoots Cell Phones Into Swedish Prison
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Authorities in Sweden arrested a man who shot mobile phones into the yard of a high-security prison with a bow and arrows, police said Saturday.
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Convicted sex offenders in Sweden are free to read pornography in their cells following a court ruling that has angered the prison service.
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Rival groups of inmates battled with guns, grenades and machetes at a prison in El Salvador on Wednesday, killing at least 31 prisoners.
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison today in an assault aimed at ending a standoff sparked by a bloody escape attempt by four inmates once suspected of belonging to the al-Qaida terrorism organization.
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A gunman who went on a shooting spree in north London, injuring two people, is jailed for life.
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MANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa...
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Two men are jailed for life for killing a man by stuffing newspapers in his pockets and setting him on fire.
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison in a hail of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades Friday, ending a deadly 10-hour standoff that began when four inmates
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Masked gunmen robbed a mail processing center in western Sweden on Tuesday, leaving metal spikes, burning cars and suspected explosives in their wake to avoid pursuit, police said. Three men were later arrested.
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The man accused of killing four people in a courthouse shooting spree had asked a female friend who visited him in jail to describe the location of a tower and barbed wire around the building, according to a transcript of a recorded call disclosed Tuesday.
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Three Afghan prison guards and two  prisoners were killed in a jail break attempt by al Qaeda  inmates on Friday and a shoot-out was going on with another  two, the chief of Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison told Reuters.
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FARGO, N.D. - A man who stripped to the waist, put on safety goggles and tore up a Verizon Wireless store after complaining of bad phone service has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.
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A man brandishing a gun-like object held up a drugstore in the small southwestern Swedish town of Bollebygd and made off with his booty: a package of headache tablets, Swedish media reported.
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A prison in the Thai capital plans live internet broadcasts of the final moments of condemned inmates' lives.
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Muslim insurgents using grenade launchers blasted their way into a prison in the southern Philippines early on Friday and freed 49 inmates, according to prison officials.
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A man who murdered his wife is in hospital after being found in his cell ahead of his sentence by a judge.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Cellular telephones were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday.