Iran’s top judge said around 70,000 people across the country have been granted temporary leave from prisons. The measure is meant to curb the spread of Chinese coronavirus infections in the struggling country. Speaking to a judicial council on Monday, Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi said Iranian courts have identified 70,000 people eligible for furlough, Tasnim News Agency reported. The number of vetted... 

More than 28,000 prisoners including murderers, rapists and those guilty of grievous bodily harm have been freed from jails to fight for Vladimir Putin in his war in Ukraine, it is claimed. The scheme has so far led to the release of more than five percent of the entire male prison population in Russia as the Kremlin steps up recruitment of inmates after suffering a humiliating defeat against Ukraine’s... 

Russia is recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine with the promise of almost £3,000 and their sentences being annulled if they come back alive after six months. The convicts are told they will be put on the frontline to hunt down ‘Nazis’ in Ukraine. Russia is recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine with the promise of almost £3,000 and their sentences being annulled if they come back... 

If you had any doubt about the scale of the pedophilia epidemic that is sweeping the world, then this story from the UK should put things into perspective for you. British police, once one of the world’s most respected police forces, have admitted they “cannot cope” with the “huge” increase in reports of child sexual abuse and they now say pedophiles whose “only” crime is viewing child... 

More than half of all the under 18s currently in jail in Britain are nonwhite, and a quarter are Muslim, despite nonwhites allegedly only making up 13 percent of the population, new official figures from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons has revealed. According to the report titled “Children in Custody 2017–18 An analysis of 12–18-year-olds’ perceptions of their experiences in secure... 

The MV Sun Sea before it was reneamed. marinetraffic.com/ The Globe and Mail About 200 migrants expected to be detained as MV Sun Sea nears B.C. shores Two provincial jails east of Vancouver are preparing for an influx this week of 200 new residents: Tamil migrants aboard a ship that is expected to arrive in British Columbia. That disclosure from a spokesman for the District of Maple Ridge Tuesday...