This declaration was made by Native American activists, whose request to turn the closed prison island into a Native American study centre was repeatedly turned down in the 1960s.
The overriding belief at Castle Huntly is that if offenders are simply released back into society from a closed prison, then they are much more likely to re-offend, that someone who has been helped and rehabilitated first has a better chance of making something of their life.
She had been in an open prison since July after being moved from Send closed women's prison in Surrey.
The prison closed in September 1996.
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The case is being tried behind closed doors inside a prison compound near Yangon.
President Obama on Thursday signed an order mandating that the Guantanamo Bay prison be closed within the year.
One state prison has closed, and two more are on the chopping block.
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As a result, he was transferred to closed conditions at Lincoln Prison.
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With operating costs rising, the prison was permanently closed in 1994, and the island's tourism potential at last arrived.
Mr Horseley said there was still an enormous amount of work to be done before the prison was officially closed next month.
Last year, a prison review team appointed by Mr Ford said Magilligan Prison should be closed, and a new one built in a more central location.
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The RAF base north of Norwich closed in 2006 and the sex offenders prison HMP Bure opened on the site in 2009.
He imposed the fines via a closed-circuit television link to Ranong Provincial Prison, where the refugees will continue to be held until they can pay the court.
Six are to close altogether while the Ministry of Justice says a prison on the Isle of Wight will be partially closed.
Under the 1997 prison-building plan, Carandiru was meant to have closed.
"The point about Shepton Mallet - along with with Kingston prison at Portsmouth, which is one of the others that is being closed - is they were the top two performing prisons in the country according to the last round of HMI (Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons) inspections in 2010, " he said.
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The trial is being held inside a prison compound in Yangon, and all but one day so far has been closed to the public, including the news media and diplomats.
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The move was part of a government announcement on the future of the prison service, revealed last month, which will see six prisons in England closed and three partially shut.
Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.
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