Prisons Take Fire at Forum in Canon City
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 15--CANON CITY - Everyone wants a piece of the state funding pie, but problems with the Colorado Department of Corrections dominated what was billed as a legislative summit Thursday.
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Inmates armed with hand grenades and guns rioted at a western Venezuela prison, killing at least 30 fellow inmates before hundreds of national guardsmen restored order, authorities said Wednesday.
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Dozens of people burned to death as violence rages across west of the country
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A retiring governor launches a scathing attack on the way the prison service is run.
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Clashes follow the verdict on the owners of a shopping complex in Paraguay where fire killed 350 in 2004.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors
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Five prisoners were killed and at least 18 others wounded Tuesday in a confrontation between rival gangs in an overcrowded men's prison, officials said.
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Shooting and an explosion broke out overnight as troops moved into a prison in the Azerbaijani capital where more than 200 inmates had broken onto the roof to demand the ouster of the prison chief and seek better conditions, eyewitnesses and local media reported Wednesday.
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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked  Islamabad early on Saturday as Islamist students holed up in a  mosque battled Pakistani security forces after the militants&#39;  leader defied government demands to surrender.
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Rival prisoners fought each other with knives and sticks Wednesday at a San Salvador jail, leaving at least 23 people dead and more than 24 others injured, police said.
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Heavy exchanges of fire erupted on Friday between Islamist militants holed up in a Pakistani mosque and security forces after the militants' leader said he and his hundreds of followers would rather die than surrender.
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Security guards exchanged fire today with gunmen apparently trying to disrupt Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's meetings with government officials.
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Gunmen stormed a Darfur prison, setting free at least 90 detainees, officials and local media said Monday as sporadic violence continued to erupt throughout the western Sudanese region.
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About 200 people protesting against the death of a man in custody have burnt down a police station, a house and a courthouse on a remote Australian island, before police reinforcements flew in to restore order.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Demonstrators broke into a UN compound in the western city of Herat on Sunday, a day after the Afghan government fired the city&#39;s warlord governor.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - Shortly after the gate  slammed shut leading to aging San Quentin prison's cells  housing the most dangerous murderers already condemned to die,  the warden issued a stark warning.
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By Denny Boyles, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 10--A Fresno County Jail inmate pulled the trigger on a paint gun Friday and took the first shot in a new campaign against graffiti in rural areas.