Prison officers in strike action
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Prison officers in England and Wales strike in a protest over pay, the association representing them says.
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Five death-row inmates waged a hunger strike Thursday, asking to be allowed to interact with one another and calling their years of solitary confinement "inhumane and tantamount to psychological torture."
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Inmates at a prison are to get a small financial bonus for good behaviour during a recent prison officer strike.
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Defying tough warnings from the authorities, illegally unionized government employees went on an indefinite strike yesterday to protest the government&#39;s policy toward civil servants&#39; labor rights.
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Gang attack suspected as senior police officer urges mandatory jail terms
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Two inmates working in a prison garden wrested guns from two guards Monday, exchanged gunfire with other officers and stole a pickup truck, running over and killing one of the guards as she tried to stop them, prison officials said.
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Attacks on female prison officers have more than doubled in the past seven years, official figures obtained by Guardian Unlimited reveal.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - Five prisoners sentenced to be  executed in Connecticut began a hunger strike on Thursday to  protest their solitary living conditions which they called  "inhumane and tantamount to psychological torture."
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Riot officers are called in at an immigration detention centre after staff and inmates were injured in a fire.
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Opposition activists in Bangladesh attacked railway stations and battled police in several parts of the country on Tuesday as a two-day strike called to protest a deadly grenade attack at the weekend got underway.
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The Ministry of Justice is granted a court injunction against a national strike by thousands of prison officers.
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Suicide attempts are common at prisons operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where inmates step over one another in overcrowded jails
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Â· Warders ignore ruling that strike is illegalÂ· More public sector pay rows predicted
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More strikes by prison officers look inevitable after government's response to this week's wildcat action.
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ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting swept through a penitentiary housing 2,000 prisoners in central Argentina late yesterday, leaving at least three inmates dead and two dozen guards hostage, authorities said. Television footage showed rampaging inmates on the prison's roof wielding homemade knives while holding hostages, including one man in a bloodied shirt. Shots rang out as the rioters cast rocks ...
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Opposition activists in Bangladesh  attacked railway stations and battled police in several parts  of the country on Tuesday as a two-day strike called to protest  a deadly grenade attack at the weekend got underway.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops in Iraq shot and killed four inmates during a prison riot yesterday, the military said.