In May last year, Masipa sentenced a man who raped three women during the course of house robberies to 252 years in prison, condemning him for attacking and raping the victims "in the sanctity of their own homes where they thought they were safe".
Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, condemned Brinsford Young Offender Institution as the worst prison he has visited since taking up his role in 2010 – adding to a growing list of jails unable to provide basic levels of decency and safety.
The two Serbs, currently in a Sarajevo prison, were condemned to death by a military court.
Sally Clark was sent to prison two years ago, condemned to life inside for murdering her two babies because - among other evidence - there was only 'one chance in 73 million' of the babies, born a year apart, both dying of natural causes.
It began to attract attention when Tomás Ó Fiaich, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, visited the prison and condemned the conditions there.
But after freeholders from Cumberland County -- already home to four prisons -- condemned the plan, the town committee reversed itself and told the state to look elsewhere.
Force-feeding, while practiced in some American prisons, is condemned by the American Medical Association.
The demonstrators claim Holot is akin to a prison, and condemn what they describe as Israel's failure to process their asylum requests.
From his perch as the director of the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which he believes will help uplift many needy people but particularly the most troubled teenagers, John J. DiIulio Jr. conceded today that he wished he had never become the 1990's intellectual pillar for putting violent juveniles in prison and condemning them as "superpredators".
But there was no change in the state of Britain's prisons – now routinely condemned by the prisons inspectorate, who describe crumbling buildings and rat and cockroach infestations.
