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‘Help me, I’m dying’: In Ecuador’s TB-ridden gang-plagued prisons

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – In gang-plagued Ecuador, being sent to prison is increasingly a death sentence, whatever the crime. In a bid to free the country...

Guo, 2 others transferred to Correctional

The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) confirmed that dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo was transferred Friday night to the Correctional Institution...

Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to over 4 years in prison

New York – Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday for prostitution-related crimes, capping a dramatic, all-day court...

Warden uses holistic treatment of inmates

SANTIAGO City — The detention facility here under warden Angelito de Laza is employing a holistic approach to strengthen reform initiatives and promote the...

Peru to build prison for wild inmates

LIMA – Peru, battling a wave of violent crime, said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) it would build a prison for its most dangerous offenders...

Costa Rica prison guards catch drug-smuggling purr-petrator

San José, Costa Rica—Guards in Costa Rica have intercepted an unusual prison drug delivery, catching a cat as it jumped over the periphery fence at...

Bukele rules out returning migrant, in love-fest with Trump

WASHINGTON, DC—El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Monday (Tuesday Manila time) ruled out returning a man wrongly deported from the United States, as he...

Sara Duterte ‘directly obstructed’ Zuleika Lopez’s transfer to women’s prison—House official

Vice President Sara Duterte allegedly blocked the transfer of her chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, to the Women’s Correctional Facility in Mandaluyong, which House...

Ricardo Cepeda released from prison after posting bail

After almost a year in jail for an estafa case, veteran actor Ricardo Cepeda was released on Thursday, Sept. 20, according to actress Marina...

Quad Comm orders 30-day detention of Cassandra Ong at Mandaluyong women’s prison

The House of Representatives Quad Committee on Thursday night ordered the 30-day detention of Katherine Cassandra Li Ong at the Correctional Institution for Women...

Quad Comm asks NBI to probe 2016 Davao killings

The House Quad Committee called on the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate the 2016 murder of three suspected Chinese drug lords, allegedly upon...

US man gets $7 mn for wrongful conviction after 48 years in jail

A 71-year-old man who spent nearly five decades in prison for a murder he did not commit is to receive a $7.15 million settlement...

Russia jails US reporter Gershkovich for 16 years

Yekaterinburg, Russia — US reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced by a Russian court on Friday to 16 years in prison for "espionage," a verdict...

Israel releases 30 Palestinian prisoners in latest exchange: prison authorities

Thirty Palestinian prisoners were freed overnight Thursday, the Israeli prison authorities said, in the latest exchange under an extended truce deal due to expire...
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