And using statistical techniques to approximate what prisoners would say if they were surveyed is highly controversial.
What prisoners try to convey to the free is how the presence of time as something being done to you, instead of something you do things with, alters the mind at every moment.
What, did the Republican prisoners ever get the chance to talk about what they'd done with, with Loyalist prisoners?
In Mexico prisoners do what they please in some jails run by local governments.
Today there are another 38 prisoners there, wondering what their fate will be.
Sir David said there was a general ignorance about prisons, but the public needed to know what goes on in them, because prisoners will return to their communities.
It is not yet clear what the implications will be for some former prisoners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, although it is unlikely to affect Scotland where there are fewer restrictions on eligibility for compensation.
So far, eight detectives have been suspended and the Police Complaints Authority says it has identified 200 alleged offences within the force, including what it describes as ritualistic ill-treatment of prisoners.
And that, well I think that the phrase 'prison must be made to work as well as possible' is what we'd look at, and that means work with prisoners to try and prevent them reoffending when they're released.
Mark Urban will give his take on what the wider impact will be of the exchange of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday's Newsnight, 18 October 2011, at 2230 on BBC Two.
Over the days to come there will no doubt be renewed focus on the claims and counter claims about exactly what Lady Thatcher and her officials had been willing to concede to the prisoners as those hunger strikes dragged on.
The two key challenges related to what can appear to some Europeans an extreme system in the US. Prisoners can get life sentences without any possibility of parole - the five men facing extradition in this case would not face the death penalty.
But as most prisoners spend less than three years in jail, the crucial question is what happens when they are released.
According to Pliny the Elder, the Roman prisoners were used by the Parthians as guards on their eastern frontier in what is today Turkmenistan.
What has happened in Egypt is an irony of Shakespearean proportion: the jailers are now the prisoners, and the prisoners are now the jailers.
These organizations do not directly demand the release of political prisoners nor do they call for special meetings of their member states to condemn in unison what is now taking place in Venezuela.
What exemplified Islam for him, he said, was the decision by one early Muslim ruler to ransom Christian prisoners in exchange for works of Greek philosophy, medicine and mathematics.
Justice Minister David Ford has written to the Justice Committee to outline what progress has been made in finding "an effective and less intrusive method other than full-body searching for prisoners leaving and entering prison".
应用推荐