Greenland criminals take road back to society, not prison
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Some 20 people gather for a lunch of whale meat and potatoes inside a large wooden building facing a frozen fjord bathed in sunlight. No, these are not tourists on vacation, but rather criminals serving time in one of Greenland's open penal centers.
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Detainees who've been released, only to join up again with anti-U.S. forces
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Bail bondsmen, who post bail for people accused of crimes in exchange for a fee, are all but unknown in the rest of the world.
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SYDNEY -- Six men have been convicted on charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island, home to descendants of the 18th-century mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty.
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KAZAN, Russia -- Timur Ishmuratov is back in prison, his fourth stretch in three countries since he crossed into Afghanistan in early 2001 looking, his family says, for the perfect Islamic society.
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The escape of a notorious jail-breaker has led to calls to overhaul Belgium's prison system.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit. Transformation happens through an instantaneous miracle; it then builds the prisoner up with familiarity of the Bible."...
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Three men freed from GuantÃ¡namo Bay reunited with families but two face extradition
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Residents of Ilulissat, the town on Greenland's western coast famed for the majestic icebergs that glide through its icefjord, nearly choked on their morning coffee as they read the news: the town's biggest attraction was melting away.
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Police believe suspect is on northern coast in area known as criminal haven
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In the nine years since they set out from Mexico for a new life in central Iowa, Juan and Patricia Castillo have found jobs, bought a house and watched their children thrive at school. But they now face deportation from federal immigration officials, who say the Castillos entered the country illegally &#151; a charge the family does not deny.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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Thirty-three detainees who had been held at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were returned to their home countries over the past week, part of a government effort to reduce the facility's population to a core group of terrorism suspects who could be held indefinitely.
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Hugo Vinicio Hernandez knew that immigration agents could detain him at any time for having disregarded a deportation order in 2001. But the Guatemalan man didn't think he would wind up in the custody of immigration agents as a result of a routine traffic stop.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- They were supposed to be relaxing on the beach or playing a round of golf on yet another sunny day of vacation on their refuge from the harsh winter of Norway. Instead, Leif Giske and his wife stood on the concrete driveway of a hospital amid the stench of corpses at an overflow morgue.
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Research finds a significant number of inmates come from some of Scotland's poorest areas.
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems