Prisons

Robots to be deployed to stop fights in Singapore prisons in 3-month trial from Oct

The robot called PROTECT developed by the Singapore Prison Service and Home Team Science and Technology Agency during a media preview at Changi Prison Complex on Sept 3.

‘Master of Escapes’ caught in Spain after 4th prison break

The man escaped from a jail in Italy in December by sawing through window bars and lowering himself with knotted bedsheets

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s life is at risk in prison, sons say

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s popularity has endured in Pakistan despite his prison stay.

China sentences artist Gao Zhen to 3 years’ jail for ‘insulting heroes’, says rights group

Gao Zhen (left) and his brother Gao Qiang with their artwork, titled Mao’s Guilt, in Beijing in 2009.

Thailand to review pardon criteria after backlash over release of 85-year-old drug trafficker

Laota Saenlee, a former anti-communist guerrilla turned drug runner linked to powerful Myanmar drug kingpins, was freed due to his age and good behaviour.

Police to train teachers to detect gang involvement in schools

Muhammad Farhan Fauzi (left) and Nur Azlinda Zulkifli, two desistors and former drug abusers who have turned their lives around.

Russia frees ailing ex-US marine Robert Gilman from detention

Former US Marine Robert Gilman attending a court hearing in Russia in April 2026. Gilman is reported to be in a catatonic-like state assessed as a “dissociative stupor”.

Taiwan court jails Chinese woman over political infiltration

He was an engineering manager with a master’s degree. Then meth took over

Former engineering manager Roland said education did not prepare him for many of life’s challenges. He had a meth addiction and went to the Drug Rehabilitation Centre and prison in his 40s.

Behind the double lives of well-educated professionals in S’pore battling drug addiction

Cornelyus Tan once hid his drug addiction from friends and family. He is now manager of strategic communications at HCSA Community Services and is sharing his story publicly for the first time.

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