Maryland State Police are investigating a prisoner’s death at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Somerset County. Eugene Stanford, 49, originally of Trappe, Maryland, was killed while serving time at the facility around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, police said in a news release. The Eastern Correctional Institution is a medium-security facility in Westover on the lower […]
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners for the first time in months on Friday, but any hopes of de-escalation in the war were dashed by attacks from both sides and Moscow boasting of its gains throughout May. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was meanwhile in Stockholm to sign security agreements with Sweden, Iceland and Norway as the […]
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners again for the first time in months. Seventy-five Russian soldiers “who were in mortal danger” were returned, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said on Friday. In return, 75 prisoners of war were handed over to the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the exchange on his Telegram […]
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners again for the first time in months on Friday, but any hopes of de-escalation in the war were dashed by early morning attacks from both sides. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was meanwhile in Stockholm to sign security agreements with Sweden, Iceland and Norway as the West kept up its support […]
By Max Hunder KYIV REGION (Reuters) – In its quest to fill the dwindling ranks of its infantry, Ukraine has turned to recruiting prisoners to join the fight against Russia, and more than four thousand have applied so far. Under a deal offered to inmates by the government, prisoners will have their remaining sentences cleared […]
By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi group freed more than 100 detainees in Sanaa on Sunday, calling the move a “unilateral humanitarian initiative” to pardon prisoners and return them to their families. “Most of them are humanitarian cases, including the sick, the wounded, and the elderly,” said Abdul Qader Al-Murtada, head of the […]
CAIRO (AP) — The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on Sunday released more than 100 war prisoners linked to the country’s long-running conflict, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. The unilateral release came more than a year after Yemen’s warring sides freed more than 800 prisoners in a major exchange in the country […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that end up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine that churns chicken droppings […]
Three inmates charged in the violent killing of notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger while imprisoned with him in West Virginia have accepted plea agreements, court filings show. Fotios Geas and Paul J. DeCologero are accused by prosecutors of bludgeoning Bulger to death as fellow defendant Sean McKinnon acted as a lookout in October […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law, under a bill that gained traction after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill into law […]
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian marine infantryman endured nine months of physical and psychological torture as a Russian prisoner of war, but was allotted only three months of rest and rehabilitation before being ordered back to his unit. The infantryman, who asked to be identified only by his call sign, Smiley, returned to duty willingly. […]
Several inmates in an Oklahoma prison say they were locked in filthy shower stalls, some as small as 2 square feet, for days on end. In a lawsuit filed last week, the inmates claim that this treatment caused “severe physical and emotional suffering,” and was an obvious violation of their Eighth Amendment rights. According to […]