Inmates Die

Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row inmate whose daughter died in 2002 in a tragedy blamed on shaken baby syndrome.

A staggering 28 inmates have died at a shelter home in Delhi since the beginning of this year, with 14 deaths - including that of a child - taking place in July alone, prompting the state government to order a probe.

A convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case was fatally attacked by five inmates in Kalamba Central Jail in Kolhapur on Sunday, police said.

Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died on Friday aged 74 after he was assaulted by another inmate in a maximum-security prison earlier this month, prison authorities said.

Months after an inmate died in the district jail here, the prison's deputy jailor and three others have been booked for murder, police said on Monday.

The fire that broke out in Iran's Evin prison in Tehran overnight killed four inmates and left 61 others injured, the judicial authority said on its website Sunday.

Three days of bloody clashes between inmates in Ecuador have left 21 dead and 66 people, including five police officers, injured in the latest bout of gang violence in the country's notoriously brutal prisons, officials said Thursday.

A 20-year-old inmate lodged in the Tihar jail here died following a scuffle with another prisoner inside a barrack, officials said on Wednesday.

Three inmates of a shelter home for destitute died and 12 others fell ill in Kota possibly after drinking contaminated water, an official said on Monday.

A man, who was arrested in a dowry death case, died by suicide in the district jail on Monday, a senior prison official said.

At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early Tuesday during an attempted prison escape in southwestern Colombia, news agency AFP reported quoting an official from national prison agency.

A division bench of the Tripura High Court, upholding a single bench order, has asked the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family member of a jail inmate, who died of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) due to medical negligence

A bizarre drama that riveted America ended in tragedy Monday as a female prison guard arrested with a fugitive ex-con she allegedly helped to escape died after shooting herself as police moved in to nab them in the climax of a 10-day manhunt.

A 49-year-old murder convict lodged in a jail in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district died allegedly after he was assaulted by other inmates, officials said on Friday.

Five inmates have died inside prisons in Delhi in the last eight days, officials said on Saturday and asserted that none of the deaths were related to violence.

Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row inmate whose daughter died in 2002 in a tragedy blamed on shaken baby syndrome.

A staggering 28 inmates have died at a shelter home in Delhi since the beginning of this year, with 14 deaths - including that of a child - taking place in July alone, prompting the state government to order a probe.

A convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case was fatally attacked by five inmates in Kalamba Central Jail in Kolhapur on Sunday, police said.

Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died on Friday aged 74 after he was assaulted by another inmate in a maximum-security prison earlier this month, prison authorities said.

Months after an inmate died in the district jail here, the prison's deputy jailor and three others have been booked for murder, police said on Monday.

The fire that broke out in Iran's Evin prison in Tehran overnight killed four inmates and left 61 others injured, the judicial authority said on its website Sunday.

Three days of bloody clashes between inmates in Ecuador have left 21 dead and 66 people, including five police officers, injured in the latest bout of gang violence in the country's notoriously brutal prisons, officials said Thursday.

A 20-year-old inmate lodged in the Tihar jail here died following a scuffle with another prisoner inside a barrack, officials said on Wednesday.

Three inmates of a shelter home for destitute died and 12 others fell ill in Kota possibly after drinking contaminated water, an official said on Monday.

A man, who was arrested in a dowry death case, died by suicide in the district jail on Monday, a senior prison official said.

At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early Tuesday during an attempted prison escape in southwestern Colombia, news agency AFP reported quoting an official from national prison agency.

A division bench of the Tripura High Court, upholding a single bench order, has asked the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family member of a jail inmate, who died of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) due to medical negligence

A bizarre drama that riveted America ended in tragedy Monday as a female prison guard arrested with a fugitive ex-con she allegedly helped to escape died after shooting herself as police moved in to nab them in the climax of a 10-day manhunt.

A 49-year-old murder convict lodged in a jail in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district died allegedly after he was assaulted by other inmates, officials said on Friday.

Five inmates have died inside prisons in Delhi in the last eight days, officials said on Saturday and asserted that none of the deaths were related to violence.