The island's 30 prisons can accommodate just over 13 thousand inmates, but as of today there are around 30 thousand. About half of these are in prison on remand, more than 20 thousand for drug ...

An elderly Colombo gangster — who whined he shouldn’t do any hard time because he has less than a year to live — may have gotten the last laugh. Taking a page from “Junior” Soprano’s playbook, reputed ...

A tearjerking mob sob story paid off big for a rickety Colombo soldier in Brooklyn federal court Thursday. Octogenarian racketeer Nicky Rizzo, 86, listed a painful string of ailments at his sentencing ...

The Colombo Additional Magistrate today ordered the Prisons Superintendent to transfer the seven remaining Indian nationals suspected to be involved in an international kidney racket to the Colombo ...

(MENAFN- NewsIn.Asia) Colombo, Aug 20 (newsin.asia) - At least 11 people were injured when a massive clash erupted in the female ward of Colombo's main prison on Monday, as a group of inmates who were ...

Leave the ping pong paddles, file the lawsuit. That’s what former Colombo crime boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli has done — suing the federal government for $10 million over injuries from a game of ...

A 77-year-old Colombo crime family captain from Franklin Square was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison for extorting and attempting to siphon $10,000 monthly from a Queens-based ...

At least eight people have been killed and 52 injured after a prison riot in Sri Lanka which saw guards clash with inmates, officials have said. The inmates had launched protests amid a surge of ...

Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today directed the Prisons Superintendent to transfer the seven remaining suspects of the alleged Indo- Lanka kidney racket to the Colombo Prison. The ...