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A minimum security prison near Winnipeg was evacuated Tuesday after contractors ruptured a gas line into the institution. The Correctional Service of Canada said in a news release that the line at Rockwood Institution was ruptured about 2:30 p.m. CT. All gas lines to the prison were turned off...

Convicted robber Clifford Laframboise says it was frustration at continually being denied parole that drove him to flee a South Dakota prison and eventually make his way back to Manitoba, where he then lived quietly for 16 years. The RCMP recently arrested Laframboise, now 42, on the strength...

-- Eleven inmates died in a fight at a Mexican prison Tuesday afternoon, the public safety ministry in Durango state. The dead inmates appeared to have stab wounds, but prosecutors had not determined an official cause of death, a ministry statement said. The fight occurred at the same prison...

CINCINNATI -- The woman once referred to as "The Black Widow" for killing her husband has died in prison. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction confirmed to WLWT that Della Sutorius died. The ODRC could not confirm a cause of death. Della Sutorius was convicted of aggravated...

A judge will bring at least 41 guards to trial following a mass jailbreak from a prison in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico's Attorney General's office posted on its website Tuesday. The men and women will face charges for their alleged role in the escape of 153 inmates from the...

Jorge Rafael Videla on trial in Cordoba, Argentina, on July 22, 2010. Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to life in prison by a federal court Wednesday for human rights abuses during his rule. Videla was among the coup leaders who overthrew...

A view of the bordering bridge between Nuevo Lardeo, Mexico and Laredo, Texas, on July 8. Mexico City, Mexico -- At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico's northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official. The secretary of public security of...

Mark Madoff commits suicide http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/12/13/ac.johns.madoff.suicide.cnn New York -- Convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff will not attend the funeral of his son, Mark, out of consideration for his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, attorney Ira Sorkin said...

By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – Fri, 10 Dec 11:20 PM EST SAN DIEGO - A 71-year-old terminally ill man has been sentenced to 21 years in a California prison for rolling his wheelchair into a San Diego bank and holding it up with a replica BB gun. Judge Jeffrey Fraser said Friday...

By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – Tue, 7 Dec 5:52 PM EST BUFFALO, N.Y. - A 101-year-old pedophile who was New York's oldest state prison inmate has died. Corrections officials say Theodore Sypnier died of natural causes early Tuesday. The Buffalo News reports Sypnier was taken to...

\ Protesters in Hong Kong on December 5 demanding the release of Liu Xiaobo from a Chinese jail. Beijing -- He is a lean, bespectacled figure: he is the very image of the literature professor that he is -- but the mild demeanor is deceiving. Liu Xiaobo is the quiet man who sacrificed his...

By The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa prisons could soon be stocking prison-made toilet paper to save taxpayers money and provide jobs to inmates. The Des Moines Register newspaper reported on Thursday that inmates at two Iowa prisons are testing a single-ply tissue processed at a...

Freed U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd says she wrote songs while being held in an Iranian prison. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/09/24/snow.sarah.shourd.speaks.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/showbiz/2010/11/26/wynter.american.hikers.iran.cnn Sarah Shourd, the American hiker freed from an Iran...

Chen Shui-bian, left, steps out of a prison van before going into the High Court in Taipei on November 27, 2009. Taiwan's former president will stay behind bars for at least 11 more years, the island's Supreme Court has ruled, official sources said Friday. The decision was reached late...

A U.S. citizen imprisoned in Peru for 15 years for aiding leftist rebels was released from prison Monday after a Peruvian court granted her parole her last week. Peruvian television showed Lori Berenson leaving Lima's Chorrillos Penitentiary. Berenson, 40, was sentenced to life in prison in...

A Peruvian court has granted parole to a U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned since 1995 for aiding leftist rebels. Lori Berenson has already served 15 years of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement to attack the nation's congress and overthrow the...

Prison inmate spots county's math error BREMERTON, Wash., -- Officials in a Washington county say they are rewriting their policy for awarding "good time" to prison inmates after a prisoner discovered a math error. Robert "Doug" Pierce, 48, who was jailed in December for possession of...

Ex-OSU star Clarett signs UFL contract OMAHA, -- Troubled former Ohio State star running back Maurice Clarett has been signed by Omaha of the United Football League, the team announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed for the 26-year-old Clarett, who led the Buckeyes to a...

'Black Widow' dies in Georgia prison ATLANTA, -- Lynn Turner, a woman police dubbed the Black Widow for killing her husband and boyfriend with antifreeze, died in a Georgia prison Monday, officials said. WSB-TV, Atlanta, reported it had confirmed Turner, 42, was found unresponsive in her...

Ten charged in Ontario prison protest KINGSTON, Ontario, Canadian police said they arrested a 10th protester Monday, a day after a large demonstration outside an Ontario prison farm that is slated for closure. Several hundred protesters crowded outside the gates of Frontenac Prison in...