#Prison

The decision of Attorney-General Giorgos Savvides not to prosecute the chief of the Drug Squad, Michalis Katsounotos, for corruption caused a public outcry sparking claims of a cover-up and blatant ...

The old central prisons in the north will be converted to a refugee reception centre for women, the Turkish Cypriot ‘interior minister’ Ziya Ozturkler said on Monday. Speaking to Kibris, ...

One of Mexico’s most notorious prisons begins a new chapter this weekend as a Pacific Ocean getaway after a makeover aimed at bringing in tourists to the former penal ...

Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced two men to three-and-half-years in prison having found them guilty of people smuggling. The defendants, aged 42 and 47, will begin serving their sentence immediately. The ...

There is a clear attempt to mislead public opinion and undermine the director of the central prison Anna Aristotelous after she reported police corruption, her lawyer said on Monday. Pambos ...

Justice Minister Stefi Dracou has received the report of the four-member committee appointed by the attorney-general to investigate possible offences related to the use of mobile phones and drugs at ...

Management of the Nicosia central prisons is “neither adequate nor effective”, the facility is rife with drugs and criminal activity including witness intimidation both inside and outside the prison, leading ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Friday his negotiator Ergun Olgun would meet with Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou next Thursday over the murder of Turkish Cypriot inmate Tansu ...

The mother of murdered Turkish Cypriot inmate, Tansu Cidan, said on Thursday the north’s ‘government’ failed to do anything to show support for her family’s suffering over her ...

Overcrowding is a perennial problem at the central prison but has grown worse in recent years, the ombudswoman said on Tuesday after completing an investigation, and calling for immediate action ...

A suspect in the murder of a central prisons inmate, currently being held on remand in police custody, has reportedly accused a police officer of inappropriate conduct. The suspect, currently ...

A 35-year-old was remanded for eight days in connection with the murdered Turkish Cypriot inmate case, while another 11 inmates were detained for another eight days as were three others. A ...

Nicosia district court on Friday issued a detention order for three men, aged 53, 38 and 36, in connection with the case of the premeditated murder of a 41-year-old inmate at the central ...

Police on Thursday arrested three more persons in connection with the murder of a 41-year-old inmate at the Central Prisons. The three individuals being held are all male, aged 53, 38 and 36. ...

Ten people working at the prison have been suspended after a Turkish Cypriot inmate at the Nicosia central prisons was beaten to death, the justice ministry announced on Monday. Justice ...

Police late on Friday arrested eight people in connection with the death of a 41-year-old Turkish Cypriot inmate at the central prisons in Nicosia. Police are investigating a case of ...

Lawyers for the prison director and her deputy said on Friday the system would continue to go against them even after a report into allegations and counter-allegations between the director ...

The report into the explosive central prisons row between its director and the now suspended head of Ykan (drug squad) is due on Thursday. Independent criminal investigator appointed to the ...

Prison guard members of the Isotita union on Tuesday announced they will go on an indefinite strike over the alleged breach of a promise concerning salary upgrades. On Monday a ...

Work to install a system to deactivate mobile phones at the island’s central prisons is awaiting the green light from the prisons’ directorate, according to the department of electrical ...

The Limassol criminal court on Friday imposed a prison sentence of 18 years on two persons in connection with a case of importing and possessing cannabis, weighing 72 kg, for the purposes ...

The prisons and its operations are to be investigated by a top team appointed by the attorney general’s office amid a whirlwind of allegations that drugs and mobile phones ...

A much-needed upgrade to controlling illegal mobile usage within the prisons has seen the justice ministry accused of breaking the law The alleged collusion between a convict and a senior ...

Surveillance upgrades at the central prison are not to follow conversations but to track cell phones being used to attempt to make illegal calls, Justice Minister Stefi Drakou said on ...