But even if you find all of this to be pious rubbish, there is another reason to care about prison conditions: Because most prisoners — numbering more than 700,000 each year — will come back to communities.
The Swedish losses at Poltava in terms of casualties and prisoners numbered more than 10,000.
None of the redactions from a CIA report on interrogation related to British involvement in the mistreatment of prisoners, Number 10 has said.
The revolutionary government announced that its political prisoners, numbering 500, would be tried by special courts.
The disappearance and torture of youth, at the hands of the state, is on the rise with the number of political prisoners numbering over 40,000.
Phips finally put an end to the proceedings by first suspending the trials, and releasing all prisoners (numbering about 150) charged with witchcraft by May 1693.
It is clear that the issue of reoffending is critical in any discussion about growing prison costs and expanding prisoner numbers.
The government's radical prison reform programme risks failure without extra funding and action to cut prisoner numbers, a former director general of the prison service has warned.
Due to its added security and smaller prisoner numbers, the safety record of the HSU is better than the main prison.
Sweden is also slashing capacity because of falling prisoner numbers.
