Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque and economist professor Abul Barkat have been sharing same building as division 1 inmates of the Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital...
An inmate of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital Thursday morning.
Kanu Miah, a mentally disabled man, finally returned home on Tuesday noon after passing more than 30 years in Habiganj District Jail without trial in a murder case...
After spending more than three decades behind bars, 60-year-old Kanu Mia walked out of Habiganj District Jail on Tuesday morning.
The world鈥檚 top press freedom groups on Sunday threw their support behind a jailed Georgian journalist, warning that her prosecution signalled deepening repression as Tbilisi cracks down on dissenting voices...
The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday sent former law minister Anisul Huq, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 former adviser Salman F Rahman, and former EXIM Bank chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder, also the chairman of...
A mobile court in Kushtia鈥檚 Kumarkhali upazila has sentenced two people to one month in jail for illegally extracting sand from the Padma River...
A Sylhet court on Sunday sent nine people, including Jaintapur upazila unit president of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, to jail in a case filed on charge of attacking army personnel...
Gaan Bangla Television chairman Kaushik Hossain Taposh was released from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Wednesday evening, just a day after the High Court granted him interim bail in a case linked to the July 2024 mass uprising...
Professor Md Abdus Sattar, former vice-chancellor of the Jashore University of Science and Technology, was taken into the custody of Jashore Central Jail on Monday in a graft case...
An inmate of Dhaka Central Jail was declared dead at the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday afternoon as he was taken there in critical condition...
More than 200 Pakistani inmates escaped from a jail in the mega coastal city of Karachi on Tuesday after several earthquake tremors, government officials said...
A Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate court has allowed the police to interrogate Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, spokesperson of Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatan Jagran, at the jail gate in connection with violence on the court premises in November last year...
A metropolitan magistrate court in Chattogram on Monday allowed the police to interrogate Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, the spokesperson of the Bangladesh Sammilit Sanatan Jagran, in connection with a case filed over an attack on the police and vandalising vehicles on Chattogram court premises in late November in the past year...
A prisoner of Gopalganj district jail who fell sick in the jail died at 250-bed Gopalganj General Hospital on Wednesday...
The Bangladesh Prison Directorate has signed a contract with a consortium led by Mover Solar and Renewable Energy Ltd to implement solar energy systems across the country鈥檚 prisons, beginning with Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj as a pilot project.
Actor Nusraat Faria Mazhar walked out of Kashimpur female鈥檚 Central Jail on Tuesday afternoon, several hours after she had secured bail in a case of attempted murder allegedly committed during the past year鈥檚 July mass uprising.
Former minister for expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment of the ousted Awami League government Imran Ahmed was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning after he fell sick at Sylhet Central Jail...
US president Donald Trump said on Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago...
A court in Pabna on Sunday sent a youth to jail for raping a student of Government Edward College in the district...
Health services are almost absent in the jails across the country as only two doctors are posted against 141 vacant posts to attend 70,000 inmates in the 69 jails.
Fourteen Bangladeshi nationals were returned to the country on Wednesday afternoon after serving different terms of imprisonment in Indian jail for allegedly entering that country illegally...
The High Court on Wednesday acquitted former state minister for home affairs and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Lutfozzaman Babar in an arms case, overturning the 17-year jail sentence handed to him by a trial court in 2007...
A Pirojpur court on Monday convicted five people and sentenced them to life-term imprisonment for shooting and killing a man during a robbery at Bhandaria in Pirojpur in 2005...
A Chattogram court has ordered interrogation of Chandan Das and Rajib Bhattacharya, both accused in the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif, at the jail gate...
THE failure of the law enforcement agencies to arrest almost none of more than 700 prisoners who escaped jails around the fall of the Awami League government, toppled on August 5, 2024 in a mass uprising, is gravely concerning. The prisons directorate at a press conference in Dhaka on March 10 said that the law enforcers could arrest only one of more than...
The jail authorities on Monday said that the members of the law enforcement agencies could arrest only one jailbreaker, out of over 700, in the past three months.
The Department of Prisons on Monday dismissed a viral Facebook post claiming to be from detained Awami League leader and former minister Faruk Khan, calling it 鈥榝alse and misleading鈥�.
Former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar walked out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Thursday after spending 18 years behind bars.
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance in its first interim report has found that most victims were either killed or ended up in jail implicated in fictitious cases...