It soon became clear that some kind of anarchist prisoner aid organization would have to be created once again to help anarchists in Bolshevik prisons.

Having obtained an indefinite power of arrest, it soon filled the prisons of Paris.

The hostage-takers soon issued demands for the release of 23 Palestinian militants from Israeli prisons, or else they would kill the students.

Initially, the mob dispersed after threatening to force their way into the House of Commons, but reassembled soon afterwards and, over several days, destroyed several Roman Catholic chapels, pillaged the private dwellings of Catholics, set fire to Newgate Prison, broke open all the other prisons, and attacked the Bank of England and several other public buildings.

Having obtained an indefinite power of arrest, it soon filled the prisons of Paris.

Despite several instances of successful cooperation with the Soviet Union, most of the Polish representatives and commanders were soon arrested by the NKVD and sent to Russian prisons or to the GULag.

The nine bishops and many of the clergy died in prisons, concentration camps, internal exile, or soon after their release during the post-Stalin thaw, but after 18 years of imprisonment and persecution, Metropolitan Slipyj was released when Pope John XXIII intervened on his behalf.

In November 2009, an expanded panel of 9 judges of the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that privately run prisons are unconstitutional, finding that for the State to transfer authority for managing the prison to a private contractor whose aim is monetary profit would severely violate the prisoners ' basic human rights to dignity and freedom.

Its architecture epitomises the severely simple Classical style of nineteenth century prisons commissioned by the Public Works Department.

The courts, which adhere to civil law, lack the capacity to quickly and transparently try the cases in the judicial system, often forcing defendants to pass lengthy pretrial detentions in unsanitary and overcrowded prisons.

Many were upset that in trying to balance the budget, Davis cut spending for schools while increasing spending for prisons in lieu that in the coming years, a federal court ruling would declare the conditions in California prisons so poor and overcrowded that they were unconstitutional.

In a short time prisons in areas with a Polish minority were overcrowded by 600 %.

Death and disease were common in overcrowded ships and prisons.

At night the slaves were put into prisons called ' bagnios < nowiki >'</ nowiki > that were often hot and overcrowded.

English settlement began in the early 1730s after James Oglethorpe, a Member of Parliament, proposed that the area be colonized with the worthy poor of England, to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors ' prisons.

In Australia, suspended sentences are commonly imposed in order to alleviate the strain on overcrowded prisons.

Despite all this new capacity, Iran's prisons " were seriously overcrowded by 1983 ".

Men, women and children, the elderly and disabled – the great majority of whom have committed no crime – are held against their will in removal centres, immigration detention centres, jails, prisons, police stations, airports, hotels, ships and containers pending a final decision on their cases or removal from the country that may take months or years to effect, often in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions.

After the loss of the United States, Britain needed a new penal colony for the relocation of convicts in its overcrowded prisons.

Since 2004, Shrewsbury has been labelled as one the most overcrowded prisons in the UK.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

His treatment of opponents, real or imagined, was extremely harsh, filling the prisons with thousands of political prisoners.

From 1945 through 1948 she was held in sundry American and French-run detention camps and prisons along with house arrest but although Riefenstahl was tried four times by various postwar authorities, she was never convicted through denazification trials either for her alleged role as a propagandist or for the use of concentration camp inmates in her films.

They were employed by the police in dealing with prostitutes, and on their authority lunatics were shut up in hospitals and sometimes in prisons.

By the time Videla's military Junta took power in March 1976, approximately five thousand prisoners were being held in various prisons around Argentina, some with connections and some just guilty by association.

The police, courts and prisons were overwhelmed with new cases ; organized crime increased in power, and corruption extended among law enforcement officials.

* Title 18 deals with federal crimes, penalties and prisons.

Overseas visitors could choose between British law, that was considered stricter but with more humane prisons, or French law and French prisons, which were somewhat uncomfortable but with better food.

Forty-four American colleges or universities, 15 research foundations or chemical or pharmaceutical companies and the like including Sandoz ( now Novartis ) and Eli Lilly and Company, 12 hospitals or clinics ( in addition to those associated with universities ), and three prisons are known to have participated in MKUltra.

To prevent humans crossing, many prisons and other high-security installations construct fences with razor wire, a variant which instead of occasional barbs features near-continuous cutting surfaces sufficient to injure unprotected persons who climb on it.

The results of these two surveys were also directly contradicted by a much larger-scale national survey that did not suffer from these flaws in question wording </ ref > Kleck and Kates 2001, pp. 264 – 267 </ ref > Several further HICRC studies using data from surveys of detainees in prisons and interviews with prison physicians report that very few criminals are actually shot while committing crimes ( confirming the findings of Kleck and Gertz 1995 </ ref > Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 86 ( 1 ): 150-187, esp.

This coincided with Foucault's turn to the study of disciplinary institutions, with a book, Surveiller et Punir ( Discipline and Punish ), which " narrates " the micro-power structures that developed in Western societies since the 18th century, with a special focus on prisons and schools.

Foucault also compares modern society with Jeremy Bentham's " Panopticon " design for prisons ( which was unrealized in its original form, but nonetheless influential ): in the Panopticon, a single guard can watch over many prisoners while the guard remains unseen.

Prosecution witness Armando Morales, who shared a cell with Guandique at the U. S. Penitentiary in Kentucky, testified that Guandique was concerned about being transferred between prisons in 2006 because of inmate violence against suspected rapists.

The website alleged that practitioners detained in labour camps, hospital basements, or prisons, were being blood-and urine-tested, their information stored on computer databases, and then matched with organ recipients.

Ethan Gutmann, adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, approached the allegations by conducting extensive interviews around the world with a variety of former prisoners from Chinese labor camps and prisons, including Falun Gong practitioners and non-practitioners.

During the first years, all resistance was energetically suppressed, the prisons filled up with political prisoners, and thousands of Catalans went into exile.

Occurrence of among prison inmates in the United States is 10 to 20 times that of the occurrence observed in the general population ; this has been attributed to high-risk behavior in prisons such as IDU and tattooing with nonsterile equipment.

Michael VIII's concession was met with determined opposition at home, and prisons filled with many opponents to the union.

In 2006 the Bush Administration announced that it was " transferring high-value Al Qaeda detainees from CIA secret prisons so they could be put on trial by military commissions.

During the 1947 – 1962 period, many people were arbitrarily killed or imprisoned for political, economic or unknown reasons: detainees in prisons or camps, deported persons, persons under house arrest, and administrative detainees.

* On 8 May 1972, Flight 571 from Vienna to Tel Aviv with 101 people on board ( a Boeing 707 registered OO-SJG ) was hijacked by four members of the terrorist organization Black September, in order to secure the release of 315 detainees from Israeli prisons.

A fire in an illegal immigrant detention centre at Schiphol airport in The Netherlands on 27 October 2005 killed 11 detainees and led to the retrofitting of sprinklers in all similarly designed prisons in The Netherlands.

Lucas Guttengag, director of the ACLU Immigrants ’ Rights Project stated that, “ immigrants awaiting administrative hearings are being detained in conditions that would be unacceptable at prisons for criminal offenders .” Such examples include “ travelers without visas ” ( TWOVs ) being held in motels near airports nicknamed “ Motel Kafkas ” that are under the jurisdiction of private security officers who have no affiliation to the government, often denying them telephones or fresh air, and there are some cases where detainees have been shackled and sexually abused according to Guttengag.

In March 2009, Danner published an essay in The New York Review ,' " US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites ", which revealed the contents of a secret International Committee of the Red Cross report based on testimony from " high-value detainees " in the " War on Terror ," who had been captured, held, and interrogated at secret US prisons — the so-called " black sites ".

The United States has also been accused of operating " floating prisons " to house and transport those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.

Police abuse remains a reality in France today, while France has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) for the conditions of detention in prisons, including the use of torture on detainees.

It was closed in 2001 and all remaining political detainees were transferred to other prisons in Syria.

The SERE techniques are commonly ,< ref > For example, the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on abuse of detainees at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and CIA black site prisons reiterates the popular misconception that SERE techniques originated in Chinese Communist methods in the Korean War employed to extract false confessions from US POW's.