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By Graeme Hosken and Sapa Hundreds of prisoners at C-Max and Baviaanspoort prisons in Pretoria have embarked on a hunger strike over conditions and treatment at the jails.

According to an article in the September 6, 2008 edition of the Calgary Sun entitled "Woman saved by officer's use of stun-gun", a woman and her common-law husband are alive today thanks to the ability of ...

Lakeland Industries Inc. has received federal funding for an expansion program that will increase its workforce and allow it to serve more clients.

The federal government has awarded a new contract to handle safety and security, information technology and road work at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site.

A rookie correctional officer has been arrested after investigators say she smuggled marijuana and cigarettes to inmates at RCI.

Attorneys for a mentally ill inmate who went months without showering have begun taking depositions in their suit against Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America, which alleged the company denied him ...

DriveCam Inc., a global Driver Risk Management company, announced the appointment of Brandon Nixon as chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors effective September 2, 2008.

Through this agreement, ISS is a certified reseller of videoNEXT's Security Knowledge Manager video management solution and its related products to commercial, industrial and government organizations throughout ...

LoJack Corporation , the leading global provider of recovery systems for stolen mobile assets, today announced that the Federal Communications Commission has granted LoJack's 2005 petition allowing the company ...

Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz, the erstwhile chief executive officer and CFO, respectively, of Tyco International, are still trying to end their prison terms.

Magal Security Systems Ltd., the Yehud, Israel, provider of intrusion-detection solutions, said on Wednesday that its Senstar-Stellar subsidiary received a $20 million order from a large Latin American city for ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority soon will replace the private security company that has protected its nuclear plants for the past 11 years and brought nearly 500 security officers to the TVA payroll, according ...

New York's top court is set hear oral arguments as former Tyco International executives L. Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz bid to overturn their fraud and grand larceny convictions.

An investigation is understood to have been launched by Correctional Services officials at C-Max Prison to expose the whistleblowers who revealed serious security breaches at South Africa's most secure prison.

OMAHA, NE, August 27 / MARKET WIRE/ -- iSECUREtrac Corp. , a leader in electronic monitoring solutions, announced today that its System 5000? will be used in an innovative program developed by the Charlotte ...

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today successfully completed the first flight of its UH-60M Upgrade BLACK HAWK helicopter.

CANOGA PARK, Calif. , /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp.

After 13 years of managing the George W. Hill Correctional facility, the GEO Group Inc.

Lakeland Industries, Inc. , a leading manufacturer of industrial protective clothing for industry, municipalities, healthcare and to first responders on the federal, state and local levels, will release its ...

A LoJack For Motorcycles signal led the Columbus Police Auto Theft Unit and Ohio State Highway Patrol officials to a theft ring on Cottage Street in Lockbourne, Ohio on Tuesday, August 26.