The Sun5d
Tiny prison island to become bigger tourist attraction with plans for new cable cars
AN island off the coast of Naples is getting a huge upgrade. The former prison island of Santo Stefano is being transformed into a bar, hotel and open-air museum. The latest plans are to link the ...
Irish Sun5d
Tiny prison island to become bigger tourist attraction with plans for new cable cars
The neighbouring island of Santo Stefano is a former prison location that was in use from the 1700s. It was formerly used to house prisoners during the 1930s and 1940s, with inmates tortured and ...
Daily Mail12d
Inside Bali's execution island: How inmates are shipped to 'Indonesia's Alcatraz' before being led chained and blindfolded to a jungle clearing to be shot - as Brit faces death ...
Banished from the mainland, prisoners on Indonesia's notorious Nusakambangan Island await news of their fate. The prison complex is home to a number of prisons of varying levels of security.
Channel NewsAsia Singapore5d
‘Remove them from our land’: Prabowo plans to build remote island prison for Indonesia’s corruption convicts
(Photo: AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba) JAKARTA: A remote island prison for those convicted of corruption charges. That was the threat volleyed by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday (Mar 13 ...
Island4d
Retired Superintendent of High Security Boossa Prison had threats – Prison Spokesman
Department of Prisons’ Media Spokesperson, Gamini Dissanayake said yesterday that retired Superintendent of the high security Boossa Prison, Siridath Dhammika, who was tragically gunned down at ...
WESH29d
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is released from a Florida prison weeks after Biden commutes his life sentence
The group grabbed headlines in 1969 when activists occupied the former prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, and again in 1972, when they presented presidential candidates with a ...
The Island Packet14d
Prison guard left inmate’s cell unlocked to sexually abuse her in Hawaii, feds say
A former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three inmates in Hawaii, federal officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A 47-year-old former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually ...
CBS News29d
Leonard Peltier released from prison after Biden's sentence commutation in FBI killings
The group grabbed headlines in 1969, when activists occupied the former prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, and again in 1972, when they presented presidential candidates with a ...
Los Angeles Times29d
Leonard Peltier, celebrated and reviled, leaves prison after nearly half a century behind bars
The group grabbed headlines in 1969 when activists occupied the former prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, and again in 1972, when they presented presidential candidates with a ...
The Conversation21d
States that impose severe prison sentences accomplish the opposite of what they say they want
Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...
Voice of America29d
Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden commuted sentence in killing of FBI agents
The group grabbed headlines in 1969 when activists occupied the former prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, and again in 1972, when they presented presidential candidates with a ...
CBS News25d
New DNA evidence frees Hawaii man after 30 years in prison for murder
A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder he long denied ... of Timothy Blaisdell during a drug deal robbery on the island of Maui. Cordeiro's first trial ended in a hung jury ...