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Polluter to appeal conviction

Youth target in knife-crime review

The Government is considering a proposal to limit the sale of knives to young people amid concerns over the number of knife crimes.

<i>Garth George:</i> Sterilisation only a barbed band-aid fix

Lil Wayne to do his rapping behind bars for year

Rapper Lil Wayne, his lawyer Stacey Richman by his side, listened to the judge in a Manhattan criminal court sentence him yesterday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.

'Unjust' bill means 11,000 per cent rise in prison time

The proposed three strikes bill would be grossly unjust and could result in an 11,000 per cent rise in time spent in prisons, an independent organisation on crime says.

Stabbing victim to leave NZ before attacker is freed

A stabbing victim is leaving the country and fears for his life because his attacker is about to be released from prison without having done any rehabilitation programme.

Kiwi jailed for sex attack in England

A New Zealand man who tried to rape a young girl after travelling to England to try to save his marriage has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in jail.

'Tell the truth or die'

Behaviour could be jail-related: expert

Boxing: Salvation of Israel

23 years for racist attacks

Top Hamas man's son an informer

Netherlands: Woman tunnels out of jail - using spoon

35-year-old prisoner displays her resourcefulness with cutlery to escape from a prison in the Dutch city of Breda.

'Postal prisoner' commits suicide in cell

France's most notorious escapee, Jean-Pierre Treiber, who once posted himself out of jail in a cardboard box, hanged himself in his prison cell at the weekend.

No release due to ton of trouble

Hunger strike for fibre