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Popular rappers, Jay-Z and Yo Gotti, have sued 2 Mississippi prison officials on behalf of 29 inmates over reports that they did nothing to prevent the violence that has caused the death of 5 prisoners in the last two weeks. Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro filed the lawsuit in the U.S. ...

A Lagos High Court in Igbosere has ordered the immediate arrest of Monalisa Chinda due to tax evasion issues. The Nation is reporting that the Lagos State Ministry of Justice recently filed an application alleging that the Nollywood actress did not honor several court summons, which left Justice Adedayo Akintoye ...

At Siberian women’s correctional facility, Rio de Janeiro’s Talavera Bruce prison, El Buen Pastor women’s prison in Bogota, Carandiru women’s detention center in Sao Paolo and many other prisons in various regions, there is something positive to take care of prisoners’ nostalgia. Beauty pageants are the one event that can ...

The Judge�presiding over the case of attempting murder charges on Hon Chidi Lloyd directed that the Lawmaker should remain in detention till the�next�sitting. The�Security officers�has already boundled him into an awaiting lorry back to Jail. His attempt to act sick and injured to attract sympathy was pushed aside by�the Judge, ...

One of the warring factions in the Mushin crisis turned on its own recently, shooting an ex-convict, Kunle Ojoye, barely a week after his return from prison.�Ojoye was allegedly shot at Akobi Crescent, Surulere, by his�old friends.�Ojoye, also known as Obama, was said to be an�active member�of the Akala boys’ ...

More than 170 inmates have been set free during an attack at the Olokuta medium security prison at the Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) in Akure Sunday morning. The incident occured when some heavily armed gunmen struck at the prison facility with explosives and other dangerous weapons shooting sporadically into the ...

  The House of Representatives yesterday Thursday May 29th approved 14 years imprisonment for persons who contracted same sex marriage in the country. This was sequel to a clause-by-clause consideration of a Bill for an Act to prohibit marriage or union entered between persons of same sex, at the Committee ...