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The director of the Avlona Prison in northern Athens and the head guard of its juvenile correctional facility were sacked Tuesday over a violent riot there last Friday which left 13 people injured.
It was the second such incident at the prison's juvenile correctional facility within the last month.

One inmate is dead and seven injured at Athens's high security jail of Korydallos after a brawl broke out between prisoners belonging to rival ethnic groups, reports said Thursday.

Reports said the victim, whose identity was not immediately made public died after being stabbed with a knife.

A probe was launched on Friday into an incident at the main prison in Trikala, central Greece, after an inmate attacked a guard with a razor blade, leaving him with neck injuries.

According to reports the inmate, a Greek national, lunged at the guard with the concealed weapon after the latter agreed to a meeting with the prisoner, who had asked to discuss a personal matter.

The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled on March 14 that the prison administration at the Ferizli L-type prison in the Sakarya province failed to protect the “right to life” for Fatih Kolbasar, an inmate who committed suicide in his cell in 2008. 

The Justice Ministry is investigating reports according to which a guard at Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison was attacked by a group of inmates a day after finding contraband items in their cell last week.

According to sources, the guard searched the cell of three Albanian inmates and discovered 250 SIM cards last Thursday.