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Kingston Penitentiary, home to many of Canada's most dangerous and notorious criminals, remained under lockdown Thursday evening after a prison brawl Tuesday left seven inmates injured.

A suspect in a brutal jail killing is doing time over one of the prison system's most sickening attacks.

The Government has pledged to investigate how a convicted terrorist managed to send six pages of advice on evading capture from his Belmarsh prison cell.

Guards at B.C. jails say they are increasingly being targeted in a new kind of attack — where inmates are throwing feces and urine at them.

Eight cans containing explosive material were on Monday found in Shimo la Tewa Maximum Prison compound in Shanzu, Mombasa County.


Three inmates died from smoke inhalation in an intentionally set fire in the Comcar prison, Uruguayan police said on Sunday.

Tihar officials today introduced a smart card system for its inmates which will serve the dual purpose of a food coupon and help in checking illegal activities inside the jail premises. Earlier, some inmates were found to have misused food coupons for procuring banned substances like tobacco and exchange it to get favours from fellow inmates.

A fire broke out in cells holding Arab security prisoners at the Ma'asiyahu prison in central Israel Thursday morning, with prisoners blocking guards from entering cells to put the fires out.

A nationwide manhunt is continuing for two men after a gunman helped a prisoner to escape by threatening two guards accompanying the inmate to hospital.

An Ottawa man serving a life sentence for terrorism has been attacked in prison in Quebec.