6 inmates escape federal jail in Texas
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A former police officer about to face trial on drug charges and five alleged members of a violent drug gang overpowered a guard and cut through at least four fences to escape from a federal detention center near the Mexican border, officials said Wednesday.
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At least six people - four prison guards and two prisoners - when Al Qaeda prisoners attempted a break out of Kabul&#39;s main Pul-i-Charki prison today, Afghan police officials and eyewitnesses said.
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Fourteen workers at a juvenile detention center were convicted and sentenced to up to 87 years in prison for beating inmates with iron bars and wood to find out who organized an escape attempt, court officials said Wednesday.
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Suspected Muslim rebels stormed a jail  in the southern Philippines early on Friday with grenades and  rockets, blasted a hole in its wall and helped more than 46  prisoners escape, authorities said.
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SAN ANTONIO - Tourists at the Alamo saw something besides historical exhibits at the shrine of Texas independence. A couple who witnesses say were having sex Sunday at the downtown mission landed in jail, according to police...
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A man charged in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer last spring has escaped from prison, possibly with help, authorities said Friday.
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An inmate who escaped from a hospital Wednesday, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, was cornered hours later in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout, authorities said.
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At least 300 prisoners, including  dozens of Maoist insurgents, escaped from a central Indian jail  after overpowering guards on Sunday, police said.
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Hundreds of inmates' relatives gathered outside Mexico's top-security prison on Sunday as federal authorities announced plans to occupy the facility for at least another week.
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Texas officials freed a man who spent 12 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of molesting a 3-year-old girl.
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A Spanish judge ordered six people held in jail on provisional charges of belonging to a terrorist group, while freeing six others, the National Court said Friday.
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Hundreds of Pakistanis who have fought alongside the Taliban against US-led forces have been released from an Afghan jail. The 368 prisoners, the last of more than 2500 Pakistanis captured during the overthrow
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Federal agents and soldiers seized the top-security Matamoros prison near the Texas border Wednesday, a week after six prison employees were slain and their bodies dumped outside the facility's gates amid growing violence in Mexico's prison system.
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ne of two inmates wanted in a daring jailbreak last month that echoed the plot of "The Shawshank Redemption" was captured in an apartment just six blocks from the jail
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Former Lost actress Michelle Rodriguez has begun serving six months in jail for violating probation.
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Hundreds of federal police and soldiers seized control over the nation's top-security prison Friday amid reports of a planned escape, possible murder plots and a jailhouse alliance between two reputed drug trafficking kingpins.
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A federal judge approved a settlement agreement that calls for changes at a former Texas prison where illegal immigrant children are detained with their families.