What we do know about the treatment of prisoners in this "war on terror" (of which Iraq, we are told, is a part), is that the Geneva Conventions don't always apply -- the prison at Guantánamo Bay, filled with hundreds of "enemy combatants" (who are not afforded the protections of P.O.W.'s) being Exhibit No. 1.
Prisoners who want to serve their sentence in either Northern Ireland or Scotland have to apply to the prison service for their part of the UK.
He applied for the prison library job when he saw it posted on Craigslist.
"[But] that's kind of a low bar that only applies when the prison is imposing restrictions on inmates.
So the laws of supply and demand apply inside the prison-industrial complex, too.
Prison officials do not apply the credits to sex offenders, contending that would endanger public safety.
The point made by Frantz Fanon, cited by Black Lives Matter, can be applied to the prisons here: "We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe".
Although Corston's brief was restricted to the female prison estate, many of her conclusions - especially on mental health - apply equally across the prison board.
The educational material I was sent is careful and informed, but here and there are whiffs of this homogenized conscience: "Are there lessons to be learned from a study of the gulag that might apply to prison systems in countries like the United States?" the curriculum proposes asking students.
The rest -- the little people who guarded the prisons and applied the electrodes and buried the bodies -- should be tried by Iraqis themselves, but only after they have rebuilt their court system.
"But the measures being proposed are not about banning books, they are about making sure the security arrangements around packages delivered to prisoners are applied consistently across the prison estate.
