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French prosecutors said Tuesday they have opened an investigation alleging terrorist conspiracy and attempted murder after several prisons were targeted in incidents that included gunfire and arson. Top officials described the attacks as a response to renewed government efforts to Read More …
Heavily armed gangs struck the city of Mirebalais in central Haiti on Monday, seizing control of a local prison as hundreds of people fled the area under gunfire. Local media reported that gang members released dozens of inmates in the Read More …
An explosion in the early hours of Thursday outside the Guayaquil Littoral Penitentiary, the most dangerous in Ecuador, left one guard dead and two injured and once again alarmed the inhabitants of the area, who have seen their routine altered Read More …
U.S.-backed terrorist group PKK/YPG, which runs a jail in northeastern Syria for Daesh members, says they oppose handing the facility over to the new rulers of Syria. They cite possible attacks by Daesh and claim monitoring its attempts to re-emerge. Read More …
A Jonesborough man accused of bringing an improvised explosive device to jail has been charged, according to the Washington County, Tennessee Sheriff’s Office. James Thomas Clay, 29, was arrested by the Johnson City Police Department on January 11 for various Read More …
Eleven Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman, marking yet another detainee transfer from the military prison in the final days of the Biden administration. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin notified Congress in September 2023 of his intent Read More …
Ecuadoran authorities foiled a drone attack on La Roca prison, where former vice president Jorge Glas is held, highlighting the escalating violence linked to drug cartels in the country. Ecuadoran officials said they had thwarted an attack Thursday carried out Read More …
Cells across Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison have been raided in a major response to a “sinister” petrol bomb attack on a prison officer’s home. The Irish Mirror has learned that a massive search took place across the prison throughout Tuesday after Read More …
A ‘mass poisoning’ put prison guards in hospital after inmates allegedly added the wrong type of ‘spice’ to a ‘staff special curry’. Prisoners working in the staff canteen of the high-security HMP Swaleside, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, Read More …
Six people are in hospital after a suspected food poisoning incident at Lewes Prison. A further 10 or 11 people have been treated, with deliberately-contaminated food being considered as a possible cause. Of those in hospital three are prisoners. Another Read More …