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Real-Life Super Criminal Escapes From Prison Using Explosives

Joe Student — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:13:53 +0000

In a story that seems copied directly from the pages of a comic book, a French super criminal escaped from jail on Saturday by using arms and explosives to blast his way out of incarceration. Infamous criminal Redoine Faid escaped from Lille-Sequedin penitentiary northern France by holding four

Arizona Now Charges People $25 to Visit Prison Inmates

Shauna Wright — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:34:36 +0000

New legislation in Arizona allows the state’s Department of Corrections to impose a one-time “background check fee” of $25 on adults wishing to visit inmates at any of its 15 facilities.

Needless to say, families and prisoner advocacy groups are not happy, citing the existing costs of traveling to visit loved ones housed in prisons that are often located in remote areas.

Woman Tries To Sneak Husband Out of Mexican Prison in Suitcase

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:43:47 +0000

It began with a conjugal visit, and ended with a bold attempt at a prison break.

Nineteen-year-old Maria del Mar Arjona used the privacy of the conjugal visit room in a Mexican prison to stuff her common law husband Juan Ramirez Tijerina — who is serving a 20-year sentence for a 2007 conviction for illegal weapons possession — in a suitcase.