Missing Indian prisoner found snoring on jail roof
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A prisoner who went missing from a jail in eastern India for almost 24 hours was found by prison guards snoring on the roof of the jail, officials said on Friday.
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The Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt returned to prison in India yesterday.
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A murderer who absconded from an open prison and was then recaptured is found hanging in a cell.
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A high risk sex offender who breached his bail conditions last year goes missing again.
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An Indian court has granted bail to the chief of an auction website who is in jail in connection with the sale of a school sex video clip.
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A semi-official Iranian news agency reported today that California businessman Ali Shakeri, who has been missing since May 8, is in custody and under investigation.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (BBC News) - A Belgian convict who has escaped prison on three prior occasions was recaptured in the neighbouring Netherlands Tuesday. He had escaped from Ittre prison on Sunday in a daring breakout involving several accomplices, a getaway car, a helicopter and considerable confusion on the part of officials. Nordin Benallal was recaptured in The Hague on Tuesday, after being cornered in a motorcycle showroom. His brief flirt with freedom came after his fourth escape from prison. Dutch police said that Benallal and another man had been arrested after police fired warning shots. He is expected to be returned to Belgian custody on Wenesday.
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The man who held a girl captive for 8 1/2 years and killed himself when she escaped last month was buried Friday under a false name in an undisclosed location, officials said.
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Police hunt a prisoner who escaped from his handcuffs and the custody of Reliance security guards in Fife.
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Indian prisons are "a national disgrace" where 11 people have died and hundreds of others have escaped or tried to kill themselves the past three years, government officials said Tuesday, likening it to the U.S. military's mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib.
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Dr Rajkumar who spent around 118 days in captivity with Veerappan, had said in a press conference soon after his release that there was a human being within the bandit.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A prisoner who escaped last June was recaptured this week and accused of robbery after surviving for months by hiding out in a vacant electronics store and eating stolen baby food, police said.
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Ministry reveals releases under government scheme to cut jail overcrowding
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Officer Rudolph Zurick, who was mentioned in a note left by two inmates who escaped from the Union County Jail in December, was found dead on Wednesday, apparently from suicide.
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An alleged militant accused of trying to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf escapes from jail, the authorities say.
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MANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa...
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Officials shut down a crowded, run-down county jail amid fire and safety violations including an inmate sleeping on a floor partly covered by water from leaky plumbing.