Most high-security prisoners are sick while there and are often transferred to other facilities when their health improves.
The range of Devens inmates also includes a cadre of low-security prisoners who cut the lawns and do other groundskeeping work.
Barlinnie, in particular, provided its top-security prisoners with considerable freedom to develop skills, to study and to associate within a secure environment.
She said she was not comforted by the home secretary's advice that her son would not be held in a "supermax" jail, which hold the highest-security prisoners.
The protesters opposed a maximum-security system in which prisoners were held in small cells instead of large wards.
Abdul Rashid Dostum, we saw those 400-plus Taliban prisoners coming off those trucks, and I was extremely surprised how little security there was around the area where those prisoners were being searched and questioned and eventually led to their cells.
Also, Egyptian security sources said 23, 000 prisoners escaped during the revolution, and only a third have been re-apprehended.
They stopped after Congress imposed new security restrictions over concerns that some prisoners might be released by foreign governments and return to the battlefield.
Similarly, in Cape Town's Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for 18 years during apartheid in South Africa, tours of the maximum security prison are led by former political prisoners.
The Arab League proposals - accepted by the government of President Bashar al-Assad - include the release of prisoners, the withdrawal of security forces from the streets and talks between the government and opposition.
But one thing is plain: there is a big growth area for security firms in the justice system: moving prisoners, electronic tagging and actually running prisons, like Securicor's one at Bridgend, in Wales, or the three, plus three centres holding would-be immigrants, that Group 4 runs in England.
Permanent Representative of Myanmar U Than Swe told the Security Council the country planned to grant amnesty to prisoners.
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In Venezuela the only functions performed by prison guards are perimeter security, a daily headcount and the transfer of prisoners to court.
Urgent talks are also to begin on the implementation of the Steele Report, which recommended separating republican and loyalist prisoners at the province's high security Maghaberry Prison in County Antrim.
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The overriding focus was on security, and certain staff remained reluctant to engage with prisoners.
The precautions that make Mr. Tsarnaev inaccessible to other prisoners can be a drag for low-security inmates.
The security firm G4S - which runs six prisons - said prisoners did not enjoy an automatic right to TV in their cells.
In Britain past experiments at two high-security jails, Barlinnie, near Glasgow, and Parkhurst, on the Isle of Wight, have shown that it is possible to have regimes which give prisoners more time out of cells without loss of security.
Obama had pledged to shutter the prison at Guantanamo soon after taking office but Congress opposed it, passing a law that prohibits the government from transferring Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. soil and requiring security guarantees before they can be sent elsewhere in the world.
President Barack Obama had pledged to shutter the prison at Guantanamo soon after taking office but Congress opposed it, passing a law that prohibits the government from transferring Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. soil and requiring security guarantees before they can be sent elsewhere in the world.
The prisoners were recaptured - and the prison beefed up its security.
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However, the monitors had complained in recent months that they felt vulnerable in the prison, notably because of inadequate security provisions for their tiny (four-man) unarmed teams and lax conditions for the prisoners, such as the use of mobile phones.
"We contract with just about every hospital in the area, " Mr. Colautti said, adding it is a security precaution that makes it difficult for people on the outside to know where to look for prisoners who have been moved to harder-to-secure facilities.
According to Ministry of Justice information, prisoners are classed as absconders if they absent themselves from prison custody without permission and without overcoming security measures such as fences and locks.
Given the need to talk to Congress and get them onboard with the transfer of prisoners to the Thomson correctional center, you need to convert that prison from a maximum-security prison to a supermax.
There is extreme security, and although the officials here estimate that they're going to follow the Geneva Conventions governing prisoners of war, even though they don't consider these POWs, that they're going to be treated humanely.
The report claimed there was too much emphasis on security and control at the prison and identified a need to focus "much more on the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners".
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