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Biden Meets Putin Critic Navalny's Family In California
President Joe Biden met privately in California on Thursday with the widow and daughter of Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison, the White House said.
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3 Rooms, An XBOX: How This Mass Murderer Serves His Sentence
Three private rooms, as many budgies and an Xbox: the lawsuit brought by Anders Behring Breivik against the Norwegian state's prison regime details conditions that would make many prisoners envious.
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Jailed Tamil Nadu Minister Shifted From Hospital In Chennai To Prison
Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash-for-jobs case, was on Monday shifted to the Puzhal Central Prison here from a private hospital, official sources said.
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Supreme Court Suggests To Build Private Jails By Companies
The Supreme Court Thursday expressed concern over the conditions of jails in the country and suggested the idea of building private jails involving big corporates.
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DHFL Promoter Dheeraj Wadhawan Allowed To Undergo Surgery At Private Hospital
The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Taloja prison authorities to ensure that DHFL promoter Dheeraj Wadhawan was taken to Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Mumbai for a nasal surgery.
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SmartLink Smartphone App Helps Deportation Agents Monitor Immigrants at US-Mexico Border
US authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that advocates say violates their privacy and makes them feel they're not free.
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Dera Chief Taken To Private Hospital In Gurgaon For Tests
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is lodged in Sunaria jail in Haryana's Rohtak district, was on Sunday taken to a private hospital in Gurgaon for some tests, a senior prison official said.
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High Court Asks Maharashtra To Move Jailed Activist Stan Swamy To Private Hospital
The Bombay high court on Friday directed the jail authorities in Maharashtra to shift Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, from prison to a private hospital in Mumbai for treatment for two weeks.
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Taloja Prison Hospital Lacks Infra To Treat Varavara Rao, Activist's Lawyer Tells Court
The counsel for poet-activist Varavara Rao, who is an accused in the Elgar Parishad case and is currently admitted in a private hospital in Mumbai, today requested the Bombay High Court to grant him bail on medical grounds, saying the Taloja Prison hospital in Navi Mumbai lacks adequate infrastructure to treat him.
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Hyderabad Teacher Gets Life In Prison For Setting Woman Colleague On Fire
A local court on Tuesday convicted a 30-year-old teacher of a private school in Hyderabad for killing a woman colleague by setting her ablaze in March 2015 and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
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Hyderabad Teen Jailed For Posting Private Pictures Of Woman Online
A 19-year-old student has been sentenced to three days in prison by a court in Hyderabad for posting a married woman's private pictures on a social networking website.
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Inmates Lived In Luxury After Bribing Jail Staff: Indonesian Probe Agency
Inmates at an Indonesian prison paid for luxury cells equipped with air conditioning, flat-screen TVs and private washrooms, anti-graft officials said, in the graft-riddled country's latest corruption scandal.
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Helicopter Carrying Wedding Party Lands In Prison In Bangladesh
A private helicopter carrying a wedding party landed by mistake inside a high security prison today, sparking massive security concerns.
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Director Of Children's Shelter Home Held For 'Raping' Minor Girl
The director of a private institute for rehabilitation of prisoners' children has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl at the facility near Kottayam in Kerela, police said.
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Newly Freed, Chelsea Manning Looks To 'Exciting' Future
Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US history, was released from a maximum-security prison in Kansas Wednesday after seven years behind bars.
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Biden Meets Putin Critic Navalny's Family In California
President Joe Biden met privately in California on Thursday with the widow and daughter of Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison, the White House said.
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3 Rooms, An XBOX: How This Mass Murderer Serves His Sentence
Three private rooms, as many budgies and an Xbox: the lawsuit brought by Anders Behring Breivik against the Norwegian state's prison regime details conditions that would make many prisoners envious.
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Jailed Tamil Nadu Minister Shifted From Hospital In Chennai To Prison
Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash-for-jobs case, was on Monday shifted to the Puzhal Central Prison here from a private hospital, official sources said.
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Supreme Court Suggests To Build Private Jails By Companies
The Supreme Court Thursday expressed concern over the conditions of jails in the country and suggested the idea of building private jails involving big corporates.
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DHFL Promoter Dheeraj Wadhawan Allowed To Undergo Surgery At Private Hospital
The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Taloja prison authorities to ensure that DHFL promoter Dheeraj Wadhawan was taken to Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Mumbai for a nasal surgery.
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SmartLink Smartphone App Helps Deportation Agents Monitor Immigrants at US-Mexico Border
US authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that advocates say violates their privacy and makes them feel they're not free.
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Dera Chief Taken To Private Hospital In Gurgaon For Tests
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is lodged in Sunaria jail in Haryana's Rohtak district, was on Sunday taken to a private hospital in Gurgaon for some tests, a senior prison official said.
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High Court Asks Maharashtra To Move Jailed Activist Stan Swamy To Private Hospital
The Bombay high court on Friday directed the jail authorities in Maharashtra to shift Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, from prison to a private hospital in Mumbai for treatment for two weeks.
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Taloja Prison Hospital Lacks Infra To Treat Varavara Rao, Activist's Lawyer Tells Court
The counsel for poet-activist Varavara Rao, who is an accused in the Elgar Parishad case and is currently admitted in a private hospital in Mumbai, today requested the Bombay High Court to grant him bail on medical grounds, saying the Taloja Prison hospital in Navi Mumbai lacks adequate infrastructure to treat him.
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Hyderabad Teacher Gets Life In Prison For Setting Woman Colleague On Fire
A local court on Tuesday convicted a 30-year-old teacher of a private school in Hyderabad for killing a woman colleague by setting her ablaze in March 2015 and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
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Hyderabad Teen Jailed For Posting Private Pictures Of Woman Online
A 19-year-old student has been sentenced to three days in prison by a court in Hyderabad for posting a married woman's private pictures on a social networking website.
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Inmates Lived In Luxury After Bribing Jail Staff: Indonesian Probe Agency
Inmates at an Indonesian prison paid for luxury cells equipped with air conditioning, flat-screen TVs and private washrooms, anti-graft officials said, in the graft-riddled country's latest corruption scandal.
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Helicopter Carrying Wedding Party Lands In Prison In Bangladesh
A private helicopter carrying a wedding party landed by mistake inside a high security prison today, sparking massive security concerns.
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Director Of Children's Shelter Home Held For 'Raping' Minor Girl
The director of a private institute for rehabilitation of prisoners' children has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl at the facility near Kottayam in Kerela, police said.
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Newly Freed, Chelsea Manning Looks To 'Exciting' Future
Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US history, was released from a maximum-security prison in Kansas Wednesday after seven years behind bars.
