State media in Venezuela say prisoners who took control of a jail near the capital Caracas three weeks ago have released 148 fellow inmates whom they were allegedly holding hostage.

委内瑞拉官方媒体称，三周前控制了首都加拉加斯附近一座监狱的囚犯释放了他们所劫持的148名犯人。

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It is the key work of custody to control prisoners' trend, prevent the happenings of all kinds of accidents and develop protracted and effective mechanism in detention house.

控制在押人员动态，预防各类事故的发生，发挥看守所监管安全长效机制，是看守所羁押管理工作的关键所在。

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Guatemalan prisons are overcrowded and in many, prisoners have taken control of many of the day-to-day running of the jails.

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A. interrogators, under great pressure to produce information, assume that the prisoners under their control must be guilty of something.

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To restore control, prison officials decided to move the prisoners in Camp 6 out of a communal area, where they eat together and freely associate for most of the day, into single cells from which they are released for two hours a day for recreation.

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