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It sounds Big Brotherish, but prison officials say that violence among prisoners has decreased.

The existence of the prison, which housed mostly Sunni Arab prisoners, has created a political furor in Iraq, prompted government denials and fanned sectarian tensions.

Since 1974 (prison population: 2,519) the number of prisoners has increased more than 4.5 times [ 16].

Of course the slashing of the prison budget, so the ratio of officers to prisoners has fallen to one to five, was too brutal.

Second, they say, isolating the most difficult and disruptive prisoners has had beneficial effects on the rest of the prison system.

Mr. Gharani, who was one of Guantánamo's youngest prisoners, has said he was subjected to abusive treatment at the prison, including solitary confinement and sleep deprivation.

A blogger freed by the king of Bahrain along with dozens of other prisoners has told the BBC World Service he was insulted and tortured in prison.

The overcrowding of prisons and the consequent discomfort either among the warders or among the prisoners has become one of the most urgent problems to face.

Since 1980, the number of federal prisoners has grown eight hundred per cent.

"One of the prisoners has been held for almost thirty years".

The release of prisoners has been a longstanding demand of Mr Karzai's government.