Greece

A man who became infamous in 2011 for using a bow and arrow against police forces during a protest in Athens' Syntagma Square, escaped the agricultural prison of Tyrintha in the Peloponnese on Friday. Giannis Michalidis was given a 13-year...

Greek police have launched a nationwide manhunt after two convicts described as being “particularly dangerous” escaped from Avlona Prison, north of the capital, on Monday night. One of the two convicts, who are both Albanian nationals, has been implicated in...

At least one person died and seven were injured in clashes between prisoners at Korydallos prison in Athens, on Thursday evening. According to preliminary reports, the clashes broke out in the psychiatric ward of the prison. Reports said the victim, whose...

Greek police have found a cannabis plantation at a prison farm in the northern town of Kassandra. Sixty plants, two meters high, planted by inmates were confiscated. According to reports, the inmates had also installed an automatic watering system in the...

November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas walked out of the Korydallos jail on Tuesday on a 48-hour prison leave, the third since last November. His wife and son met him outside the jail, west of Athens. A small group of supporters...

A former gunman of Greece's far-left terror group November 17 has been hospitalized after going on hunger strike. Dimitris Koufodinas -- currently serving a number of life sentences for crimes including murder -- had been seeking more prison leave after...

Greek authorities are locked into talks on Saturday with inmates at Korydallos maximum security prison to convince them to stop their protest and return to their cells. Inmates refused to return to their cells and remained in the common areas...

Francois Crepeau, special UN rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, urged Greece on Monday to stop detaining refugee and migrant children in police cells. Following a fact-finding mission to the country from May 12 to 16, Crepeau called...

Korydallos Prison is once again a topic of discussion in Greece after an inmate who was being treated at the jail's hospital passed away on Sunday. A 75-year-old man, who had reportedly been sentenced to prison for unpaid checks died at the...

A Greek prison is on lockdown after the discovery of a tunnel that could have been used for a future escape. While searching the cell of an inmate, prison guards of the Trikala Prison in Northern Greece found an entrance to...

The Greek government has approached the Council of Europe to launch a program that aims to improve conditions within Greek prisons. The programme will be a cooperation between the Greek Justice Ministry and the European Council, Kathimerini newspaper reports. Eftychis Fytrakis, the general...

A new correctional code that will soon be put to the vote in the Greek parliament, will allow prisoners to have conjugal visits from their wives or partners. Greek Justice Minister Charalambos Athanasiou listened to MPs’ suggestions regarding the topic and...

Greek prison guards decided to continue their strike action until July 1, in an effort to make the State deal with the serious problems in the Greek  prisons. According to Union figures, the overcrowded Greek correctional institutions have to deal with...

The investigator of Serres, in Northern Greece has called on fifteen Nigrita prison guards to enter their plea on Saturday, April 5, as part of the main interrogation being conducted concerning the case of the 42-year-old lifer Ili Kareli. The...

Greek police sergeant Antonis Aravantinos made several revelations about the death of Ilia Kareli at Nigrita prison in an interview Tuesday. In particular, he stated that during the investigation carried out by the Greek police internal affairs department, head of the prison guard...