It tarnished Britain's self-image as a country that formally repudiates all forms of prisoner abuse.
In the Scientist's Dilemma [4], [5], the rational strategy for maximizing research funding is to submit as many proposals as possible, yet, as in the classic form of the Prisoner's Dilemma, this strategy is less optimal than cooperation.
As well as using art as a cathartic form of expression, prisoners share illustrations and drawings in an attempt to seek forgiveness, repentance, or as an offering of gratitude.
COOPER: Would you oppose the idea of some form of negotiations or prisoner exchange?
Fundamentally, hunger strikes are a form of speech for prisoners who have no other way to communicate their concerns.
Any form of abuse towards prisoners or violation of human rights must be condemned, but this cannot excuse the law they broke.
Strasbourg's requirement that the UK introduce some form of voting for prisoners is, the critics say, an example of the ECHR becoming over-intrusive in areas that should be the proper preserve of domestic courts and parliament.
(A "quack-quack is where you squat down like a duck, make your arms like wings, flap them, waddle around and say, "Quack, quack". It's a form of amusement for prisoners, but it's also meant to humiliate the quacker).
Blacks are twice as likely as whites to be in jail (they form two-thirds of prisoners but only half of the population).
Solitary confinement, isolation, segregation, separate confinement, or administrative segregation are all terms used to broadly describe a form of confinement where a prisoner or detainee is held alone in a cell from 22 to 24 hours a day.
