Row over escaped inmate figures
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Tory ministers call on the government to reveal how many escaped prisoners remain at large.
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A state police official said Monday that "the noose is tightening" in the manhunt for an escaped inmate accused of a deadly police ambush, and warned hunters to stay out of the woods where the fugitive may be hiding.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Two guards who were held hostage by four inmates at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail were rescued, one of them by other inmates, as police negotiated for more than four hours to end the standoff...
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The latest daring escape by a prisoner who grabbed a guard's gun while at a hospital has renewed debate over whether firearms should be carried at all by authorities watching over inmates at medical centers.
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Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts
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Efforts to help save the life of Kenneth Bigley held captive in Iraq, intensified when Irish politicians made an appeal to Bigley&#39;s captors.
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Residents of Usk demand an end to a policy of housing sex offenders at an open prison following a inmate's escape.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales has risen to a record high of almost 81,000, the Prison Service said today.
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Details of disagreement emerge over threat posed by two British residents held in GuantÃ¡namo Bay
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A fresh row over the government's crime statistics broke out last night after two criminologists said the authoritative British Crime Survey excludes 3 million offences a year.
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Freed prison journalist Wilbert Rideau has received threats since his release, but his lawyer discounted them Tuesday as the work of "one or two kooks."
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Bank robbers have escaped with several million pounds after employees were taken hostage at their homes, security sources have said.
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An inquiry is under way into how a convicted rapist managed to escape twice from a London hospital.
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Rival Ulster Defence Association prisoners are separated after a disturbance in a County Antrim jail.
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A fight broke out among inmates in a prison yard Friday, injuring 18 prisoners, three of them critically, prison officials said.
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More than 200 inmates staged an uprising Tuesday on the roof of their prison to demand the ouster of the warden and seek better conditions.
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The way the public are protected from criminals released from prisons is strongly criticised in a report.