A jail in New Jersey has taken to scanning detainees with a device designed to detect an intent to commit hostile acts.
In what's being hailed as the worst attempted jailbreak ever a man dressed as Snoopy tried to free an inmate.
A painter and decorator was thrown in to jail after he was mistaken by police for a brutal war criminal.
A man from Germany has been jailed after attempting to smuggle a number of reptiles out of New Zealand in his underwear.