And so Darfur's camps have become giant prisons, holding almost two million people now.
In the US, criminals are punished in prisons for more serious crimes and in jails for lesser offences.
He added that over-sentencing would see more appeals and that the courts and prisons would struggle to cope.
Similar units will be opened at prisons across the country in the coming weeks.
"So this is in their best interest - not to make prisons more comfortable, " she said.
Besides, they fret, why assume that county jails will be any better than state prisons?
Federal prisons are not facing the same overcrowding problems that are plaguing many state prison systems.
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Prisons Minister Paul Boateng also faces a grilling over whether he personally authorised the raid.
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It was built to house high-profile inmates who could be unsafe in normal prisons.
Each day, prison buses route inmates from prisons to courtrooms to testify against co-conspirators.
Prolonged isolation was used sparingly, if at all, by most American prisons for almost a century.
Saad Sultan is the Human Rights Ministry official in charge of monitoring Iraq's prisons.
Mr Shannon condemned Moorhouse Prison in Kilmarnock which is run by the private company, Premier Prisons.
On the other hand, the prisons are not designed to treat the mentally ill.
Other teams to feature include KCC of Uganda, Prisons of Tanzania and Benadir Telecom of Somalia.
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She said her findings highlighted the scale of problems in "overcrowded and pressurised" local prisons.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has said prisons should not be "routinely used for short-term prisoners".
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However, Prisons Minister David Hanson said measures had now been introduced to minimise expenditure.
The Bureau of Prisons does allow inmates to attend funerals of deceased family members.
Private contractors like it because it means more prisons need to be built or managed.
Some 1, 177 members of staff work at the seven prisons that are closing.
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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons would make any decision on a delay, he said.
Prisons are a profitable business these days, and traders can look to lock in profits.
So Tennessee is convinced that private prisons need to be open about their operations.
For example, they have taken to administering school systems and prisons down to the minutest detail.
Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners.
Second, private prisons sometimes have lower costs, if they can keep prison-guard unions at bay.
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