Iraq detainee abuse problem worse than reported, US ambassador says
US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday that more than 100 detainees had been abused in two Iraqi detention facilities, a figure considerably greater than the 21 or 26 people previously reported as...
Iraq rights ministry finds abused detainees in Baghdad facility
The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry said late Sunday that 13 prisoners in an overcrowded facility run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry were abuse victims who required medical treatment. The detainees have been transferred to a hospital and are under...
New US military prison in north Iraq receives Abu Ghraib, Bucca detainees
In a bid to facilitate the transition of Iraq detention operations to Iraqi security forces, the US military has opened a new prison near the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq. Named Fort Suse, the facility...
Faced with a growing problem of overcrowded jails, British officials are considering fitting some prisoners with electronic tags and releasing them, a government minister said Thursday. According to a report in the Times, the plan calls for criminals...
Indonesia moved the three masterminds behind the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings to a higher security jail Tuesday to wait out their time on death row, just one day before the third anniversary of the...
Rwanda releases thousands of prisoners, including most genocide suspects
Rwandan authorities have begun releasing 36,000 inmates, the majority of whom have confessed to taking part in the country's 1994 genocide . The cabinet approved the provisional mass release on Wednesday in a bid to free...
The US military announced Tuesday that a riot broke out at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison over the weekend after an inmate made a failed attempt to escape from the prison. The "disturbance" took place late Sunday...
Due to surging numbers of Iraqis held by the US in prison camps, US military commanders have undertaken a $50 million project to expand three existing prisons and build a fourth. The number of Iraqi prisoners has risen steadily,...
The US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Sunday that prison incarceration rates for 2003 - 2004 hit an all-time high, with nearly 2.3 percent of the population being jailed for some length of time....
Second Iraq prison camp disturbance in two weeks triggered by inmate murder
Twelve detainees were injured Thursday night when a fight broke out at the US Camp Bucca prison camp in southern Iraq triggered by the murder of an inmate. The US military confirmed the fight...
