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A device designed to control unruly inmates by blasting them with a beam of intense energy that causes a burning sensation is drawing heat from civil rights groups who fear it could cause serious injury and is "tantamount to torture."

Police are searching for a man who is accused of escaping a Rhode Island state prison after impersonating someone else, MyFoxBoston.com reported.

In a landmark ruling a Kenya court rules that prisoners will be allowed to vote in the referendum on a new constitution.

Nearly 600 inmates in a Vietnamese drug rehabilitation camp overpowered security guards and escaped, an official said Monday. At least two-thirds of them were still at large.

Trinh Vuong Thuan, a security official at the rehabilitation center No. 2 in the northern port city of Haiphong, said 578 inmates overpowered security guards to break through the center's gates on Sunday.

A judge in the Texas county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the U.S. is facing a torrent of high-profile criticism after he declared the death penalty unconstitutional.

Maine police are searching for a maximum-security inmate who was mistakenly released from the county jail.

A federal appeals court on Monday halted the execution of an inmate three weeks after problems with a lethal injection attempt.

Texas authorities on Sunday were searching for a convicted burglar who escaped from a medical facility by rappelling off the building using a string of bedsheets, officials said.

Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources.

Rioting inmates started fires that damaged several buildings at a central Kentucky prison, and some prisoners suffered minor ...