Posts tagged with "Prison"

Justice ministry says report on prevention of torture ‘positive’ Cyprus

Justice ministry says report on prevention of torture ‘positive’

April 28th, 2018 The justice ministry said it was satisfied with the report of the European Commission on the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), regarding Cyprus, saying the conclusions noted a significant improvement. “The findings of the CPT Report states clearly the significant improvement recorded in a...
Reckless driver jailed for 18 months Crime

Reckless driver jailed for 18 months

March 6th, 2018 A 56-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison by the Paphos district court after being found guilty of causing a fatal road accident in 2015 that claimed the life of a 47-year-old man from Limassol. The man was found guilty of causing death due to reckless behaviour. The accident occurred in August 2015 when the...
Nine years for attempted murder of stepson Cyprus

Nine years for attempted murder of stepson

February 16th, 2018 A man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after he was convicted by the Paphos court of trying to kill his 15-year-old stepson last year. On July 6, a 19-year-old woman reported to police that at 11.40pm, her stepfather, 40, attacked her teenage brother and tried to strangle him with a rope during a fight with her mother...
Seven years for man who sexually abused stepdaughter   Crime

Seven years for man who sexually abused stepdaughter  

February 14th, 2018   A 36-year-old man was jailed for seven years on Wednesday for sexually abusing his stepdaughter. Nicosia criminal court found him guilty on a total of 22 charges, 11 for sexual abuse and 11 for indecent assault over incidents which took place in 2016. The girl was aged between 12 and 13 at the time. The three judges took...
Prison escapee from north could have fled across buffer zone Cyprus

Prison escapee from north could have fled across buffer zone

February 8th, 2018 A 40-year-old man who escaped from prison in the north is believed to have fled to the government-controlled areas authorities of the breakaway regime said on Thursday. According to media reports in the north, interior ‘minister’, Aysegul Baybars, said that evidence point out that the 40-year-old prison breaker escaped to the...
Justice minister opens prison drug treatment facility Cyprus

Justice minister opens prison drug treatment facility

January 12th, 2018 Justice Minister Ioanas Nicolaou on Friday officially opened a new facility for the rehabilitation and psychological treatment of convicted drug users. The new wing is the latest step in the ministry’s attempts to reform and modernize its central prison, after it added a mental health centre in 2014. “This is the result of the...
New training facility for prison guards opened Cyprus

New training facility for prison guards opened

December 12th, 2017 Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou inaugurated the academy for correctional officers in Nicosia on Tuesday, which he said will fill a gap as regards the training of prison guards. The academy, housed in two government buildings renovated specially, offers basic training to newly-employed prison guards while courses will also be offered...
Prisoners practising yoga FRONT PAGE

Prisoners practising yoga

October 17th, 2017 Since 2014, Uruguay has rehabilitated inmates through the practice of yoga, thanks to the Shala Project program. Hopefully the exercise of this project will help inmates find balance within their bodies and mind, and create spaces for coexistence, tolerance and respect.
Justice officials spar as prisoners stage protest (Update 1) Cyprus

Justice officials spar as prisoners stage protest (Update 1)

September 29th, 2017 Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Friday he would sue former central prison director Yiorgos Tryfonides after he accused him of offering ineligible inmates presidential pardon. Tryfonides’ claims that the prison had become a ‘playground’ due to lax discipline, with inmates coming to the ‘unthinkable’ point of beating...
Police probe into prison attack reveals blunders (Updated) Cyprus

Police probe into prison attack reveals blunders (Updated)

September 28th, 2017 Police said on Thursday they completed an administrative probe into how an inmate at Nicosia’s central prisons was deported despite facing charges of assaulting a prison guard – but questions mounted over the convoluted affair after reports that the man in question was also a suspect in a drugs-related case. On Wednesday, Akel MP...
Hospital cleaner jailed for putting urine in colleagues’ water Cyprus

Hospital cleaner jailed for putting urine in colleagues’ water

August 8th, 2017 A 57-year-old female former cleaner at the Famagusta state hospital who was caught in 2015 adding urine to her colleagues’ drinking water was sentenced to nine months in prison on Tuesday. The woman was caught red-handed in August 2015 after the hospital’s management installed  a surveillance camera as part of efforts to...
Seven years for sexual abuse of girl aged 10 Crime

Seven years for sexual abuse of girl aged 10

August 4th, 2017 A 37-year-old man was sentenced by the Nicosia criminal court to six years in prison on Friday after being found guilty for sexually abusing his wife’s 10-year-old niece. The suspect, who was found guilty in 22 counts relating to sexual offences committed between May 2015 and May 2016, was sentenced to six years for sexual abuse and...
Pervert, 72, gets seven years for abusing granddaughter aged 9 Crime

Pervert, 72, gets seven years for abusing granddaughter aged 9

July 28th, 2017 Nicosia criminal court sentenced a 72-year-old man to seven years in jail on Friday for sexually abusing his nine-year-old granddaughter. He was found guilty by the bench majority of 40 counts relating to indecent assault and sexual abuse of a minor between June 2014 and August 2015. The girl was nine when the abuse began and there...
Convicted former mayor injured in prison football game Cyprus

Convicted former mayor injured in prison football game

July 16th, 2017 Jailed former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas was injured on Sunday while playing football at the Nicosia Central Prisons, and was taken to hospital for treatment, reports said. According to the reports, Vergas sustained head injuries when he and another player collided while trying to head the ball He was treated at the Nicosia...
Three quarters of inmates follow educational programme Cyprus

Three quarters of inmates follow educational programme

July 11th, 2017 Three-quarters of the inmates in the island’s only correctional facility participated in its education programme in the past year, prison governor Anna Aristotelous said on Tuesday. In the 2016-2017 academic year, 410 inmates took part, the governor said, up from 369 the previous year. “The prison schools contribute to the...
Five and a half years for drug cultivation and possession Crime

Five and a half years for drug cultivation and possession

June 15th, 2017 The Paphos court on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to five and a half years in prison for the cultivation and possession of illegal drugs. On March 9, 2015 the drug squad found 68 cannabis plants and 8.9 kilos of cannabis in two Paphos homes. The man was arrested in the Czech Republic in connection with the case on May 17,...
Year in prison for drunk driver who caused man’s death   Crime

Year in prison for drunk driver who caused man’s death  

June 9th, 2017 A 36-year-old man from Russia has been sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty for causing a fatal accident last year while drunk, which led to the death of a 60-year-old man from Paphos. The accident occurred in May last year in the Neo Chorio -Latchi road in Paphos when the rental car driven by the 36-year-old, who...
Cyprus was first in Europe for prison suicides Cyprus

Cyprus was first in Europe for prison suicides

March 14th, 2017 Cyprus ranked first among European countries for suicide rates in prison, the Council of Europe’s latest annual penal statistics (Space), released on Tuesday, said. The report also revealed that each convict in Cyprus costs the state €75 per day. According to the report, which gathered data from around 50 European countries,...
EU body in Cyprus to evaluate treatment of detainees Cyprus

EU body in Cyprus to evaluate treatment of detainees

February 2nd, 2017 Cyprus has made important changes as regards policies and with regard to the operation of the state prisons and is awaiting the remarks of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Thursday. Nicolaou, following a meeting with a...
Professional rivalries blocking suitable treatment for drug addicted offenders Health

Professional rivalries blocking suitable treatment for drug addicted offenders

February 2nd, 2017 Disagreements between health providers have rendered an advisory committee for drug-addicted offenders inactive, the House legal affairs committee heard on Wednesday. The committee, made up of a psychiatrist, a nurse with experience in drug rehab and a state attorney, is tasked with advising courts on whether an offender should be...
New bill to allow small debtors to pay with community service Cyprus

New bill to allow small debtors to pay with community service

January 14th, 2017 THE justice ministry said on Friday that two bills have been prepared to amend existing legislation so as to provide discretion to the court to sentence persons who owe small amounts of money to community work instead of jail. The current system turns the amount due into a monetary sentence and a jail order is issued. The two...
Thirteen years for cannabis and cocaine offences Cyprus

Thirteen years for cannabis and cocaine offences

January 4th, 2017 Limassol criminal court Wednesday jailed a 33-year-old man for 13 years after he was found guilty of importing, possessing, using and intending to supply 33 kilos of cannabis and one and a half kilos of cocaine. The man had been put under surveillance by the drug squad on June 22 last year, following a tip off. Drug squad officers...
Prison guard suspended Crime

Prison guard suspended

December 16th, 2016 A prison guard was suspended from his duties on Friday after being arrested for allegedly trying to influence a convicted man not to testify in a drugs case. Reports say the 34-year-old is being investigated in connection with offences including the influencing of a witness in order to give false testimony or concealing true...
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