Pennsylvania woman allegedly passes drug-filled balloon to prison inmate while kissing him. A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him. State police said guards at the State Correctional Institution-Mercer became suspicious when an inmate appeared to swallow something after a prolonged kiss with a visitor on Oct. 19.

2 former judges granted partial judicial immunity in NE Pa. kids-for-cash kickback lawsuit. Two former county judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities are partially immune from civil lawsuits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Friday.

Sri Lanka said Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of completing their planned re-settlement in two months.

Sri Lanka said Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of completing their planned re-settlement in two months.

Sri Lanka said Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of completing their planned re-settlement in two months.

Sri Lanka said Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of completing their planned re-settlement in two months.

Sri Lanka said Saturday it would grant free movement to the remaining war-displaced civilians held in internment camps, meeting a key demand of the international community.

The new US prison for captured insurgents lies in the middle of a former Soviet minefield, on the northeastern side of the main American militry base in Afghanistan.

Greek police arrest fugitive who escaped from prison by helicopter. A convicted murderer in Greece who made a dramatic prison escape by helicopter earlier this year was arrested near Athens on Monday, police said.

Eager to dispel its image as a rights abuser after "war on terror" prison scandals, the US has opened a new Afghan jail that critics say still falls short of basic legal standards.

As a first step towards winding up its presence in Sierra Leone, the UN backed Special Court on Sierra Leone on Monday turned over its jail to the government, which will make it a women's prison.

Report: Extremist Muslim leaders are recruiting followers, smuggling propaganda from UK jails. Two of Britain's most high-profile Muslim extremists have been given free rein to recruit fellow inmates in prison and are spreading propaganda from behind bars, a think-tank founded by two former Islamic radicals said Monday.

Wisconsin releases video showing guard tossing grenade in inmate's cell, settling AP lawsuit. Wisconsin prison officials released a video that shows a guard tossing a non-lethal grenade designed for outdoor crowd control into an inmate's cell and running away as it explodes.

Caltech grad resentenced to federal prison for California SUV firebombings. A California Institute of Technology graduate student has been resentenced to federal prison for conspiracy in the firebombing of dozens of SUVs in an environmental protest.

Colo. officials say US gov hasn't called on using prisons for Gitmo detainees. Colorado officials say they haven't been contacted by the federal government regarding housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay in the state.

Rural Ill. town would rather have Gitmo detainees than struggle with chronic unemployment. Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.

THOMSON, Illinois (Reuters) - Moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a largely unused prison in this hamlet would create much-needed jobs, said officials who toured the rural prison on Monday, dismissing widespread concern about risks to security from America's sworn enemies and their allies.

Trying al-Qaida suspects for 9/11 raises security concern inside the courthouse, and outside. Hot sauce and a comb were all an al-Qaida suspect in New York needed to nearly kill one of his guards nine years ago. The bloody episode suggests that security worries in bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects to trial here could be just as big inside the courthouse as outside.

Obama pushes Chinese on human rights during meetings with President Hu Jintao in Beijing. President Barack Obama is pushing China on human rights, telling President Hu Jintao the U.S. believes all men and woman have "certain fundamental rights."

Man who tried to blackmail Cindy Crawford turns self in to German police. German prosecutors say the 26-year-old man who tried to extort $100,000 (euro67,258) from former supermodel Cindy Crawford has turned himself in to police.