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French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti meets with prison guards' unions the day after two prison officers were killed in an attack on a prison van at a toll booth in Normandy. The unions are calling for "a drastic reduction in prison transport by promoting the use of videoconferencing by judges or their travel to prisons." IMAGES
Police officers gather outside the Turi prison in Cuenca, Ecuador, as almost 60 prison guards and police officers are being held hostage by inmates across the country. IMAGES
Ambulances, one of which is carrying jailed Georgian opposition leader and ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, leave a prison clinic on their way to a military hospital, after doctors warned he risked death following a 50-day hunger strike. IMAGES
Prison guards gather outside the Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in Normandy to protest, a day after a "radicalised" Islamist prisoner seriously wounds two of their fellow employees with a knife. The assailant is later wounded during a police assault in which his wife was killed. IMAGES
About 60 guards block access to a prison in northwest France where a 'radicalised' inmate had seriously wounded two of their colleagues in a knife attack. IMAGES