Four jail supers sent to forced retirement
As part of ongoing reshuffle in the prison of Bangladesh, the government on Thursday sent four district jail superintendents to forced retirement...
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16 get life term imprisonment in Patuakhali
A Patuakhali court on Thursday sentenced 16 people to life term in jail in a case filed over the killing of a man in Sadar upazila around 13 years back.
No drug addict can work at prisons: IG Prisons
Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General Syed Md Motaher Hossain has sounded a note of warning against drug abusers in prisons, saying, 鈥楴o drug addict can do job in the Department of Prisons.鈥�...
Russia, Ukraine swap 206 POWs
Russia said Saturday it swapped 103 Ukrainian soldiers held captive for an equal number of Russian POWs in an exchange deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates.
Nine to die for killing man in Pabna
A speedy tribunal in Rajshahi sentenced nine people to death sentence and five others to life-term imprisonment for killing a man in 2022...
9 to die, 5 get life imprisonment for killing AL leader
The Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal on Tuesday sentenced nine people, including a former union parishad chairman to death and five others to life imprisonment in a case filed for killing an Awami League leader in 2022...
Emergency measures activated to ease English prisons鈥� overcrowding
The UK government activated emergency measures Monday to ease overcrowding in prisons in northern England, as growing numbers of people are convicted for involvement in...
20 years in prison for one of US Capitol rioters
A man described by prosecutors as one of the 鈥榤ost violent鈥� members of a pro-Donald Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday...
3 Russian agents freed in swap deal condemned by Amnesty
The Kremlin on Friday said that at least three Russians freed in a landmark prisoner exchange were undercover Russian agents, a rare public admission into the work of...
Biden, Harris greet prisoners released in swap with Russia
US president Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris hugged journalist Evan Gershkovich on Thursday as he and two other Americans arrived back on US soil after being freed by Russia in a huge prisoner swap.
Prison to be renovated soon: div commissioner
The Dhaka divisional commissioner Md Sabirul Islam said on Saturday that the Narsingdi district jail would be renovated soon to make it liveable for inmates...
2 more prisoners arrested, 156 surrender
The police on Wednesday arrested two female prisoners who were among 826 inmates of Narsingdi district jail who broke free on Friday, increasing the number of the arrested to 97...
Govt response to Bangladeshis鈥� jailing in Dubai unfortunate
THE remarks of the foreign affairs minister and the expatriate welfare and overseas employment minister that the arrest and the imprisonment of 57 Bangladeshis in Dubai is an internal affair of the United Arab Emirates are unfortunate and, therefore, unacceptable. The remarks that the ministers made in Dhaka on July 24 are nothing short...
95 more prisoners arrested, 136 surrender to court
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan claimed on Tuesday that law enforcers had arrested 95 prisoners after 826 inmates of Narsingdi district jail broke free on Friday...
Resentment of hacks
JULIAN Assange of WikiLeaks fame is now back in the country of his birth, having endured conditions of captivity ranging from cramped digs in London鈥檚 Ecuadorian embassy to the maximum-security facilities of Belmarsh Prison. His return to Australia after striking a plea deal with the US Department of Justice sees him in a state with some of the most onerous secrecy provisions of any in the Western world...
20 inmates stage Pakistan jailbreak, one killed
Twenty detainees, some accused of terrorism, staged a prison break in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Sunday, officials said, adding that one was 鈥榢illed in the crossfire鈥� during the escape...
Assange free, but no justice
WE ALL still live under a globe-spanning power structure that has shown the entire world that it will destroy your life if you expose its criminality...
Belarusian gets life term jail for killing Kazakh
Pabna Senior District and Sessions Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced a Belarusian citizen to life term imprisonment on charge of killing Kazakh national Svets Vladimir who worked at Rooppur nuclear power plant project at Ishwardi upazila of Pabna...
You saved Julian Assange
THE dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him. They cut him off from his funding, cancelling his bank accounts and credit cards. They invented bogus charges of sexual assault to get him extradited to Sweden, where he would then be shipped to the US...
Prisoner found dead in Sylhet jail, three suspended
An inmate was found dead in Sylhet Central Jail on Monday.
Kosovo ratifies deal on renting prison cells to Denmark
Legislators in Kosovo on Thursday ratified an agreement signed with Denmark to rent the Scandinavian country 300 prison cells to help ease...
Bangladesh govt challenges HC verdict against isolation of death-row convicts
The government on Tuesday filed an appeal challenging the High Court verdict that asked the jail authorities not to put death sentence inmates in the...
Isolated cell only after all processes: HC聽
The High Court ruled on Monday that no death sentence prisoner could be put in isolated cells of prisons before the completion of the judicial and...
Pope meets women prisoners in Venice
Pope Francis on Sunday visited a prison for women in Venice ahead of a mass in the watery city representing the 87-year-old pontiff鈥檚 first trip...
Prisoner dies in hospital custody
A prisoner of Pabna district jail died at Pabna general hospital after he was taken there as he fell sick at the jail...
A chronicle of Julian Assange鈥檚 imprisonment
AT THE behest of the United States government, the British government has detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his majesty鈥檚 Prison Belmarsh for five years...