From a look at the records available in the old prison, Hale Paahao ("stuck-in-irons house"), built by King Kamehameha III to detain unruly sailors who refused to return to their ships by sundown, it's easy to see which group prevailed more often than not.
But the justice minister has confirmed that he has rejected that advice and opted for a new prison on the old site.
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The air was brisk and the tall, old stone building imposing, with the new prison built alongside it.
Westfield was sentenced to four months in prison at the Old Bailey in February and has since been released.
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The 42-year-old mother walked out of a prison on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico, late Thursday night after a judge determined she was no longer a suspect, following a review of a video that showed she and her husband, Gary, climbing on the bus with just a purse, blankets and bottles of water.
Whether the 25-year-old Knox, who spent four years in prison during the investigation, trial and first appeal, ever returns to Italy to serve more prison time depends on a string of unknowns.
The 48-year-old, who now lives in Chicago and is the prison rights coordinator for the Uptown People's Law Center, said he spent a total of 23 years in solitary confinement, 12 years consecutively, most of it without TV or a radio.
Shortly after his arrest the Indian government offered to release the 74-year-old campaigner, prompting hundreds of his supporters to gather outside the prison to celebrate.
The ruling by Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks, the first under the state's controversial Racial Justice Act, means that 38-year-old Marcus Robinson now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The 53-year-old actor originally had been sentenced to serve six years in prison on the charge of possessing an automatic rifle and a pistol that were supplied to him by men subsequently convicted in the bombings.
Under the agreement struck with prosecutors, the 38-year-old avoids the death penalty and instead will receive four consecutive life terms in prison without parole.
And despite calls by President Barack Obama himself to close the 11-year-old facility, the military is about to spend millions more to upgrade the prison camp.
As a result, the Constitutional Court was chosen to be constructed right next to Johannesburg's Old Fort Prison, a notorious building whose walls had served to confine two of the best know civil rights figures of the previous century.
Prosecutors wanted to give the 45-year-old woman 30 years in prison.
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U.S. District Judge James L. Graham instead hit the 65-year-old with a six-year prison term.
The 66-year-old is serving nine weeks in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin for contempt of court.
The 62-year-old had been released from a federal prison three weeks earlier after pleading guilty earlier to possessing illegal firearms, including five fully automatic firearms.
The 76-year-old already faces a four-year prison sentence and five-year ban from public office for a fraud conviction, which he is expected to appeal against in Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation.
He arrived in Walton-on-Thames in a prison van while the jurors and lawyers travelled from the Old Bailey by coach.
If convicted, the 59-year-old Milosevic could be sentenced to life in prison.
Illinois does not have the death penalty, and the 59-year-old Peterson had faced a maximum 60-year prison term.
Mr. Alimi's mother, Ikram Yussuf, 54 years old, served six months in prison in 1977, during the historic bread riots, the last time Egyptians took to the streets en masse to protest rising prices.
From the darkness, old voices call to him, and he awakes in a glass prison in a deep cellar.
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Sussex Police arrested the 28-year-old at HMP Dartmoor, where he is serving a prison term for an unrelated matter.
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Jason Owen from Bromley, south-east London, was sentenced to six years in prison for causing or allowing the death of 17-month-old Peter Connelly.
In October, the 68-year-old former coach was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Old Bailey bomber Marian Price has been moved from Maghaberry to the women's prison at Hydebank outside Belfast.
Jacob Ostreicher, a 53-year-old flooring contractor from Brooklyn, New York, has been held at the notorious Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, since June 2011 on suspicions of money laundering.
Bobby Jack Fowler, who died in an Oregon prison in 2006, is responsible for the murder of 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen, Inspector Gary Shinkaruk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said at a news conference.
Its Old Fort is a former prison that operated from pre-Boer War times in the late 19th Century and throughout the apartheid era until its closure in 1987.
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