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Facebook deleting California prisoners' accounts

Thu, 08/11/2011 - 14:13 by NeelamGoswami

Facebook Security has started taking down profiles of prison inmates in California, after hundreds of complaints alleged that prisoners updated their Facebook profiles and contacted victims using the social network.

China's new form of torture: prisoners forced to play WOW for cash

Fri, 05/27/2011 - 13:05 by NeelamGoswami

In what is being termed as the modern form of torture, prisoners at a labor camp in northeast China are being forced to play online games as part of a huge money-making scam.

County weighs used undies for prisoners

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:19 by Prince damin

Cleveland, Tenn. -- Officials in a Tennessee county are weighing the issue of whether prisoners should be issued used underwear.

Bradley County Sheriff Jim Ruth said he discussed the issue of giving prisoners used undergarments -- properly washed -- with Bradley County commissioners, WTVC-TV, Chattanooga, Tenn., reported Thursday.

Sheriff's department spokesman Bob Gault said the jail has a longstanding policy allowing prisoners to wear only jail-issued clothing. He said all items of clothing are sanitized.

The Tennessee Corrections Institute allows for the re-issuing of underwear and requires all prisoner clothing to be washed twice a week.

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Officials questioned after huge jailbreak

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 23:39 by Prince damin

Reynosa, Mexico -- Mexican authorities are questioning prison personnel, including the director, after 85 prisoners escaped Friday, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.

Prisoners made it over the fence of the state prison in Reynosa, Mexico, in the state of Tamaulipas near the U.S. border using ladders early Friday morning. In August, a breakout from a nearby prison in Matamoros allowed 40 prisoners to escape.

Many of the prisoners are involved in drug trafficking or have been arrested for violent crimes related to the war on drugs, which has taken 28,000 lives in Mexico since 2007.

Prisoners sing for Corrections Idol

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:06 by Rakhi

Doral, Fla. -- Corrections officials in Florida's Miami-Dade County said a prisoner won his second consecutive Corrections Idol competition.

Andrew Cashmere, 38, who sang a self-written song entitled "Jesus," was chosen as the winner of Sunday's contest by a judging panel of high-ranking corrections officers at the Metro West Detention Center west of Doral, Fla., The Miami Herald reported Monday.

"It's a pleasure to be able to be here and perform," said Cashmere, who also won first place at last year's event.

Va. post office hostage drama ends without bloodshed

Thu, 12/24/2009 - 13:47 by Natalie James

Richmond, VA, December 24 -- A wheelchair-bound gunman, suspected of holding as many as five people prisoners in a post office in Virginia Wednesday, has surrendered, reports CNN.

China donor program to end reliance on prisoners for organs

Fri, 08/28/2009 - 15:25 by Jaspreet Virk

New York, August 28: In a move meant to decrease the dependence on death row inmates and thriving black market as the source of organs for transplants, China has launched a voluntary organ donor program.