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A prison inmate has escaped custody while in handcuffs following a court appearance on the NSW Mid North Coast, police say.

Cleveland Madden, 22, attended Kempsey Local Court about 4pm yesterday and escaped as he was getting into a prison van.

 SANAA - A detained member of Al-Qaeda hospitalized in Sana'a killed two of his five guards during an escape attempt Sunday, said medical sources.

 A ruckus at the Gatineau Detention Centre on Thursday prompted prison officials to place several inmates in isolation to contain the situation.

At least three fires were lit by inmates during a change of shift by corrections officers, officials say. But damage was limited.

The union representing the guards said the detention centre is becoming a dangerous place of employment because of increased drug trafficking concerns and the influence of street gangs. 

 WINNIPEG - Brandon Police Service has now charged 18 men for their alleged involvement in a riot at Brandon Correctional Centre last year.

Up to 27 inmates were involved in the Oct. 4, 2009 uprising, which was quelled by the corrections emergency response team, police said.

Six of the 18 men were still in custody at BCC and charged Feb. 23.

The rest have been charged by way of arrest warrants and are no longer in Brandon, police said.

 WINNIPEG - Four more men have been charged for their alleged involvement in a riot at a Manitoba jail last year, bringing to 10 the number of people facing charges so far.

The Winnipeg Police Service arrested four suspects Feb. 26, assisting the Brandon Police Service, which is conducting the investigation into the uprising at Brandon Correctional Centre.

The men arrested by Winnipeg police had been transferred to a different facility or released from jail since the riot last October.

 The SA Human Rights Commission has demanded that disciplinary action be taken against the head of Westville Prison, Bheki Mabanga.

This is after Mabanga said last week that eight dangerous awaiting trial prisoners managed to escape from the prison after the Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) had ordered that the electric fence be switched off. 

 A Saskatchewan prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder, 11 years after a deadly poisoning at a prison in Kingston, Ont.

Phillip Vince, 52, was arrested Tuesday at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary and charged in the death of 24-year-old Scott Barnett, said an Ontario Provincial Police release. He is to be taken to Napanee, Ont., for a court appearance Thursday.

 SANTIAGO, Chile—More than 200 inmates in Chile fled their prison on Saturday after the powerful earthquake caused a wall to crumble, jail authorities said.

The falling wall seriously injured one of the guards at the prison in the central town of Chillan and 269 prisoners poured out, said prison police chief Alejandro Jimenez, as quoted by the La Tercera newspaper's website.

 A PRISON guard was slashed in the face by a rampaging con in a frenzied attack.

The officer was supervising prisoners in the recreation yard of Edinburgh's Saughton Prison when he was attacked on Saturday afternoon.

Medical staff at the jail treated the shaken guard - who was taken to hospital.

The second paragraph of a January 27 article in Venezuelan daily El Universal entitled “Riot leaves at least 7 dead and 17 wounded in La Planta” announces that “a little after 9 this morning, inmates in the La Planta prison, mainly in cell blocks 1, 2 and 3, initiated a shootout. Meanwhile the National Guard responded with shots from above.” The fact that the Caracas prison inmates have obtained materials with which to initiate a shootout suggests that the National Guard, tasked with prison security, may have had more to do with the scene than simply responding from above—something additionally suggested by the reaction of prisoners’ wives outside the complex to the arrival of more troops: