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New thriller Maze follows infamous escape from Europe's most secure prison

"It wasn't just an escape, it was a major IRA operation.”

USA

"Crown Heights" tells true story of two mens' fight for justice

"Crown Heights" tells true story of the fight for justice by a wrongfully-imprisoned African-American, and his best friend.

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A night behind bars

Libya

Migrant prison in Libya acts as deterrent to would-be asylum seekers

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USA

Inmates used peanut butter to fool guard in jailbreak

Inmates at an Alabama prison escaped after fooling a new guard by obscuring door numbers with peanut butter

USA

US prison inmates film jailbreak

Footage filmed by escaped inmates shows how they used a bunk bed leg to break out of jail

USA

O.J. Simpson set for parole

O.J Simpson for possible release after serving nine years in jail

World News

Where in the EU are prisoner numbers falling fastest?

Scandinavian states are driving a general downward across the bloc.

Israel

Israel ex-PM Ehud Olmert freed from prison

North Korea

Otto Warmbier, the American released by North Korea, dies

US student Otto Warmbier, who was recently rleased by North Korea has died in hospital in home city of Cincinnati

USA

US student freed from North Korea, in a coma

Otto Warmbier, 22, was medically evacuated to the United States on Tuesday (June 13) evening.

North Korea

North Korea frees US student Otto Warmbier 'in coma'

The student from Cincinnati, given 15 years hard labour for stealing a poster, was said to be on his way home after being 'medically evacuated'.

Honduras

Honduras transfers hundreds of prisoners to new remote facilities

Honduras has transferred hundreds of suspected gang members to a new maximum security prison in a bid to stamp out criminal activity in the country’s overcrowded…

Indonesia

Indonesian authorities hunt inmates after mass jail break

Indonesian authorities have been hunting around 200 prisoners who broke out from an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island.

Venezuela

Calls for release of Venezuelan opposition leader

Hundreds of demonstrators have marched on a prison in Venezuela where an opposition leader is being detained.

USA

US: Arkansas carries out back-to-back executions

Arkansas has become the first US state in 17 years to execute more than one inmate on the same day.

Italy

Freed journalist returns to Italy

Gabriele del Grande was detained in Turkey two weeks ago while doing research for a book He has been released and has flown straight back to Italy.

Tunisia

Questions over detention of Tunisians in Libya

Tamim Jaboudi is nearly three-years-old.

USA

Arkansas executes first of eight slated to die in 10 days before drug expires

The US state of Arkansas begins its bid to kill eight men on death row before a lethal injection drug expires in 10 days with the execution of Ledell Lee.

Israel

Israel rejects negotiations with jailed Palestinian hunger strikers

The Public Security Minister announced that field hospitals would be set up to treat those requiring medical aid during the strike, including force-feedings.