Turkey's ministry of justice, which disputes the unions' list, says that only 63 of the named people were jailed and that the overwhelming majority of them were sentenced on charges that "had nothing to do with the conduct of journalism".
The majority of participants were sentenced at the time of the interview with fewer than 30% on remand.
A majority of the men found guilty were sentenced in absentia; the defendants who were in custody, and their lawyers, were not even present when the verdict was delivered.
The majority of the defendants, including Morsi, were sentenced to 20 years of hard labour.
At the time of the study, the majority of the prisoners (36%) were sentenced to an imprisonment of 5 to 10 years, 27% faced a sentence longer than 10 years, 6% less than 5 years, and 4% lifetime.
In April, some 75 dissidents -- a majority of them Varela Project activists -- were sentenced to lengthy prison terms after being convicted in brief trials for collaborating with American diplomats on the island.
— Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for money laundering and conspiracy stemming from his role in a scheme to channel corporate contributions to Texas state races in 2002.
As it happened, Hiram Monserrate — the other Democrat who jumped sides with Mr. Espada to give the Republicans the majority in 2009 — was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison.
By a large majority, the suspect is sentenced to death.
The study was designed as a single-centre cross-sectional study and was conducted among inmates of a single, large North Italian prison (Milan-Opera) where the vast majority of inmates had been sentenced for a period longer than three years.
