Prison official slain in Venezuela
July 7th, 2012 - 12:03 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, July 7 (IANS/EFE) The director of the women's annex of a prison in the western state of Tachira was murdered Friday along with her husband, Venezuelan authorities said.Nelly Ramon, ... Read more...
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29 prison personnel held over Mexico massacre
February 24th, 2012 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
Monterrey (Mexico), Feb 24 (IANS/EFE) Three prison officials and 26 guards at the Apodaca state penitentiary in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon are being held in preventive detention ... Read more...
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Mexico plans to build eight prisons
February 23rd, 2012 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 23 (IANS/EFE) Mexico plans to build eight new federal correctional facilities this year capable of housing 47,000 highly dangerous prisoners following last weekend's massacre of 44 inmates ... Read more...
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Prison warden shot dead in Guatemala
May 7th, 2010 - 6:27 am ICT by IANS
Guatemala City, May 7 (IANS/EFE) The warden of a maximum security prison in Guatemala's Santa Rosa province has been gunned down by unidentified assailants, authorities said.
Mario Rene Zuñiga, 29, who was appointed ... Read more...
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Pigeon in custody for drug smuggling!
August 22nd, 2008 - 6:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 22 (ANI): Bosnian police have taken a pigeon into custody for smuggling drugs into one of the country''s highest security jails.According to Josip Pojavnik, deputy warden of Zenica prison, ... Read more...
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