In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

Blair ended the year by deliberately getting himself arrested, so he could experience Christmas in prison, but the authorities did not regard his " drunk and disorderly " behaviour as imprisonable, and he returned home to Southwold after two days in a police cell.

For example, where a prisoner hanged himself in a cell, he came by his death by hanging and it was not the role of the inquest to enquire into the broader circumstances such as the alleged neglect of the prison authorities that might have contributed to his state of mind or given him the opportunity.

He managed to escape from prison, and the Catholic authorities sentenced him in absentia to death by slow burning.

* 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $ 200, 000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

However, Turkish authorities rejected his request to leave prison to attend.

He was sentenced on May 27, 1998 to twelve years in prison and fined $ 75, 000 for failing to warn authorities about the attack.

He died a mysterious death in prison after a period of being a fugitive from French Revolutionary authorities.

In 2008, US authorities in Tacoma, Washington, sentenced Edna Fiedler to two years in prison with 5 years of supervised probation for her involvement in a $ 1 million Nigerian check scam.

Later, she was arrested again and sentenced to life imprisonment by the post-war German authorities ; she committed suicide in a Bavarian prison cell in September 1967.

A number of problems with that execution ( inappropriate behavior by spectators, incorrect assembly of the apparatus, and the fact it was secretly filmed ) caused the authorities to conduct future executions in the prison courtyard.

He was in prison for seven months before the charges were dropped — possibly because of intervention from the university authorities.

The nature of Wright's killing led to speculation that prison authorities colluded with the INLA to have him killed, as he was a danger to the peace process.

Some loyalists believed that prison authorities colluded with the INLA in Wright's killing.

Despite these changes, the Bastille remained a state prison, subject to special authorities, answering to the monarch of the day and surrounded by a considerable and threatening reputation.

A mass prison break in 1811, in which 49 prisoners of war escaped via a hole in the south wall, persuaded the authorities that the castle vaults were no longer a suitable prison.

Prior to the judgment in Hirst v United Kingdom ( No 2 ) convicted prisoners had the right to vote in law but without assistance by prison authorities voting was unavailable to prisoners.

Neither courts nor prison authorities have the power to disqualify any person from exercising the right to vote in national elections, whatever the cause of imprisonment.

In the same year, he was arrested, tried by the French colonial authorities and sentenced to ten years in prison.

When a person dies in the custody of the legal authorities ( in police cells, or in prison ), an inquest must be held.

The Lebanese authorities granted Okamoto asylum in 1999 because he was alleged to have been tortured in prison in Israel.

In 1991, the local Bhopal authorities charged Anderson, who had retired in 1986, with manslaughter, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

The prison was the site, in 1938, of the only execution conducted within Michigan by federal authorities acting within federal jurisdiction.

In 1946 during the inquest into the death of Seán McCaughey, MacBride embarrassed the authorities by forcing them to admit that the conditions in Portlaoise prison were inhumane.

Romantic storylines, which would have bored his younger readers and embarrassed the older ones were also omitted, with only the very occasional exception, such as in Biggles Looks Back, where he and Von Stalhein rescue Marie Janis ( with whom Biggles was briefly in love in an earlier story ) from her prison in Bohemia.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Wider space between iron bars and agreement by prison boards to substitute rubber in 20 per cent of metal.

The military also had demanded pledges that there would be no changes in the laws passed by the junta and no leaders of the Menderes regime now in prison would be pardoned.

It is revealed as the scene of an extensive missionary effort by righteous spirits to redeem those still in darkness-a spirit prison or " hell " where the spirits of the dead remain until judgment.

" A prisoner interviewed by Moyers explained his literal interpretation of the second verse: "' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved " by saying that the fear became immediately real to him when he realized he may never get his life in order, compounded by the loneliness and restriction in prison.

; Assault on a prison custody officer: This offence is created by section 90 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( c. 53 ).

Accompanied by Ismenias, he went merely as a negotiator, without any military force, and was seized by Alexander and thrown into prison.

Alford was sentenced to thirty years in prison, after the trial judge in the case accepted the plea bargain and ruled that the defendant had been adequately apprised by his lawyer.

The Amir Sher Ali marched up against them from Kandahar ; but in the battle that ensued at Sheikhabad on May 10, he was deserted by a large body of his troops, and after his signal defeat Abdur Rahman released his father, Afzul Khan, from prison in Ghazni, and installed him upon the throne as Amir of Afghanistan.

* 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

Captured by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's men at Culpeper, Virginia on June 24, 1864, Corbett was held prisoner at Andersonville prison for five months, when he was exchanged.

Three obtained commutations to long prison terms, but Apis and three comrades were executed by firing squad on 26 June 1917.

The leader, Danilo Ilić, was shot by a firing squad. The remaining assassins in custody were not yet twenty years old at the time of the assassination and so were given prison terms.

In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

It has been described as " by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.

In 1998, Charles published No Other Blue, a collection of his poetry, with illustrations by Philippa Drakeford, on diverse personal subjects including prison, his mother's final illness, love, and politics at home and abroad.

While in prison, Charles was attacked by a man wielding a knife.

Before the end of the year, Charles Martel had escaped from prison and been acclaimed mayor by the nobles of that kingdom.

The prison is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, and is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.

There was extensive damage to property, but no prison staff were injured, although a prisoner was shot by one of the staff.