Greece

The Greek Ministries of Defense and Citizen's Protection on Monday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation under which the procedures for the replacement of the infamous Korydallos prison complex will soon begin. One of the main pledges of the conservative government...

A 50-year-old Korydallos Prison guard committed suicide in the facility's administration office for reasons unknown on Tuesday morning. According to police, the officer was actually on leave from his job at the time. Nonetheless, he appeared in the administration office in...

Widespread brawling among inmates erupted on Tuesday morning in Athens' Korydallos Prison. According to the first information available, the fights, which have also been termed as riots, began in two wings of the prison, the B and E sections. Media reports suggest...

An Albanian inmate of Attica's Korydallos, high-security prison, Arber Bako, was allegedly  stabbed to death inside the facility on Monday. Authorities did not release any further details of the reported stabbing. The convicted inmate was serving a prison sentence at Korydallos for the attempted murder...

Two prisoners from Athens' Korydallos high-security prison of broke out in the early hours of Wednesday, forcing the Greek capital's police authorities to launch an extensive manhunt to locate and arrest the inmates, who are Albanian nationals. The two Albanians were...

Jailed anarchist Constantinos Yagtzoglou will be transferred from Larissa Prison to Korydallos Prison in Athens after a Friday decision by the Central Prison Transfer Committee. Giagtzoglou is in custody with charges of sending parcel bombs to high officials, including a...

The perimeter wall outside the Korydallos women's prison was demolished in the presence of Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis, local government officials and Piraeus-area MPs on Tuesday, in a first step toward converting the site into a public park. "Today is...

The German writer, investigative reporter and journalist Günter Wallraff, who was jailed by the Greek Junta in 1974, returned as a visitor to Korydallos prison on Friday to discuss living conditions for prisoners. Wallraff traveled to Greece in May 1974....

One of the leading members of the organization "Epanastatikos Agonas," Pola Roupa, attempted to help her partner and comrade Niko Mazioti escape from Korydallos prison via helicopter. According to the information currently available, a woman who bears a striking resemblance...

The upcoming trial of Greece's extreme right Golden Dawn party, scheduled for April 20, has caused the firm reaction of citizens and business owners in the district of Korydallos, Athens, where Greece's largest prison is located. The Nazi-inspired party members' and supporters'...

With the arrest of former "November 17" member Christodoulos Xeros, Greek Police averted a very serious blow to the heart of the country's prison system, at its biggest prison in Korydallos, Athens, within the general elections period, Public Order Minister...

A riot ensued this morning at Korydallos prison in Athens, Greece, as six Georgian inmates occupied the prison clinic after failing an attempted escape. According to prison officials, the six Georgian inmates were hospitalized in the prison clinic. The grandmother...

31-year-old Antonis Stamboulos, accused of being a member of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle, announced on Tuesday morning that he is going on a hunger and thirst strike in a bid to pressure authorities to transfer him to Korydallos...

Fifty-five HIV-positive prisoners have decided to stop taking their medications as part of a strike demonstration against terrible conditions in the Korydallos  prison hospital in Greece. Additionally, 205 inmates who are also being hospitalized in the prison have decided...

Inmates at Greece's largest jail have released four women and several other visitors and at least one prison guard following a failed escape attempt by a convicted murderer and members of an anarchist group, a lawyer for several of...