Beauties Strut Their Stuff in Peru Prison
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LIMA, Peru - On a red-carpeted catwalk, an international line of elegantly dressed beauty contestants - all doing time for drug running - strutted into the night before an audience of Peruvian dignitaries.    Lee Hefegtz, a 20-year-old blonde Israeli awaiting sentence on drug trafficking charges, was the winner of this year's 10th annual beauty contest Tuesday night at Santa Monica Women's Prison in Lima's Chorrillos district...
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Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded Â a jailhouse so protected that its very location is top secret.
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The grass may be greener on the inside for inmates at Japan&#39;s Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots have been sprouting in the exercise yard.
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The most infamous political prison from Argentina's 1976-1983 dirty war opens to the public next month as a human rights memorial, one of the first of its kind in Latin America.
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Notorious prisoners' artwork, notes and even nail clippings are hot items online. But a new law might put a stop to it
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FBI agents in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, witnessed abuses of prisoners that included being left in their own feces, chained in ice-cold or super-hot cells
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has upheld the conviction of an American woman imprisoned in Peru for terrorist collaboration with Marxist guerrillas, President Alejandro Toledo confirmed Thursday.
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From the camera flashes on the red carpet of a Hollywood awards show to the walls of a jail cell -- what a difference a day makes when you're Paris Hilton.
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Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.
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By Jude Webber and Tania Mellado LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities were trying onTuesday to negotiate the surrender of an armed group holdinghostages in a police station, hours after arresting theirleader who had demanded the president's resignation.
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The jails of this crowded, sweltering city are getting crowded, and not with your typical prisoners.
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Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside a prison in Mexico City with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide.
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Five inmates were killed and at least 25 were injured in gun battles at South America's biggest jail on Tuesday in what Peru's prisons chief said were gang turf wars.
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LIMA, Peru  - American Lori Berenson faces 11 more  years behind bars in Peru after the Americas' top human rights  court upheld her 20-year sentence for collaborating with  Marxist rebels, President Alejandro Toledo said on Thursday.
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International and Thai volunteers, including prison inmates, are still searching for survivors. Locals complain that rescue workers are only looking after tourists.
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Two Albanian men are jailed for more than 12 years for trafficking women from abroad to work as prostitutes.
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As eco-lodges sprout under the forest canopy and guidebooks roll off the presses, Peru stands ready to showcase itself as a bird-watcher's paradise.