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Gitmo Inmates Settlement: Why Britain Decided to Pay (Time.com)

November 18th, 2010

Time.com - By agreeing to pay millions of dollars in compensation to GuantÁnamo detainees, the British government hopes to have secured the secrecy of its intelligence — and eased a…

Salvador prison fire kills 16 inmates, injures 24 (AP)

November 10th, 2010

AP - A fire broke out in a prison north of El Salvador’s capital Wednesday, killing at least 16 young inmates and injuring 24.

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Violence erupts at Haiti prison, 3 inmates killed (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - Two inmates were shot to death trying to escape from the roof of Haiti’s quake-damaged national penitentiary and a third was trampled to death inside during a prison…

Iraqi minister says 4 al-Qaida inmates escape jail (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this Thursday, July 15, 2010 file photo, Iraq's Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon, right, hold a symbolic key to the US Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper during a ceremony transferring the facility to Iraqi control in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's justice minister says four al-Qaida-linked detainees have escaped from the Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago. (AP Photo / Maya Alleruzzo, File)AP - Four al-Qaida-linked detainees have escaped from a Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago, Iraq’s justice minister said Thursday…

Iraq: 4 inmates with al-Qaida links have escaped prison (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

Iraqis inspect destrcution at the site of a rocket attack in Baghdad in March, 2010. Three security contractors working for the US government were killed and 15 wounded in a rocket attack on the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday, the American embassy said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - Four al-Qaida-linked detainees have escaped from a Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago, Iraq’s justice minister said Thursday.


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2 killed, 11 escape in brazen Afghan jailbreak (AP)

July 18th, 2010

An aerial view from a US helicopter in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A guard and a prisoner were killed and 11 inmates escaped early Sunday after explosives were smuggled in and detonated at a prison in western Afghanistan.


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Militant Jihadists Kept from Other Inmates in Pakistan Prison (Time.com)

July 13th, 2010

Time.com - A TIME reporter visits Karachi Central Jail, where some of the most militant jihadists are sequestered from the general prison population

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29 inmates killed in Mexico prison clashes (AP)

June 14th, 2010

AP - At least 29 inmates were killed Monday as rival gangs clashed inside a prison in a cartel-plagued Mexican state, authorities said. Three policemen guarding the prison were wounded.

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20 inmates shot dead during Mexico prison battle (AP)

June 14th, 2010

AP - Twenty inmates were shot to death Monday when a group of prisoners attacked another gang inside a prison in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities said. Two policemen…

Prison fighting kills 7 inmates in Venezuela (AP)

April 13th, 2010

AP - Venezuelan authorities say knife-wielding prison inmates have killed seven other prisoners and wounded 10 guards during an outbreak of violence at a jail in the country’s west.

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