Convict

Convicts have been used to work on the excavations of the Yemi?çi Kapan? Ottoman Inn, which is located in the garden of the iconic Selimiye Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011. 

November 17 convict Savvas Xeros has signaled his intention not to wear the security bracelet required by a new Greek law for convicts with disabilities to be granted early release and house arrest.

A murder convict in eastern Turkey has stabbed his wife to death during a stay in the prison's "pink room," where prisoners are allowed to spend hours in privacy with their wives.

Police investigating the violent murder of the warden of maximum-security Domokos Prison in central Greece on Saturday are focusing on the jail itself, Kathimerini understands, as it appears likely that the hit was ordered by a member of the criminal underworld serving time in the institution.

Bulgaria's judicial authorities plan to introduce electronic tagging of criminal offenders put under house arrest, a prison system official said on Tuesday.

Currently, the electronic monitoring devices are used to track the movement of convicts sentenced to prison terms and released on probation, Valentina Karaganova, head of the project, told Nova TV station on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - PAROL! - Writing and Art Beyond Walls, Beyond Borders, an extraordinary exhibition as part of a European project that involved convicts from 13 prisons in five European countries, will open at Belgrade's Dom Omladine on Thursday.

Roughly one in 10 convicted to jail criminals in Bulgaria is hiding from the law, reports Sega daily. 

According to the report of the Prosecutor's Office, published on its website, in 2013 871 criminals, sentenced to prison terms, have practically disappeared and are being sought, both in Bulgaria and abroad. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy and retired general, Engin Alan, has vowed “punishment” for prosecutors of the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot trial, in his first comments following his release on June 19.

An Istanbul court ruled for the release of all convicts in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case on June 19, a day after the Constitutional Court ruled that the rights of 230 convicts were violated and they should be retried.