Sentence examples for prisons in which from inspiring English sources

Its aims included initiating legal proceedings against prison staff for mistreatment of prisoners, and picketing outside prisons in which prisoners were mistreated.

One of the main demands is an address of the inhumane conditions of solitary confinement, or extreme isolation, in Secure Housing Units (SHUs) and supermax prisons, in which prisoners are locked in a cell for 22 to 24 hours a day, and denied contact with anyone except prison staff.

As of 2005 roughly 25,000 were held in "supermax" prisons, in which the most dangerous prisoners are locked in a single cell for up to 23 hours a day.

Hundreds of prisoners and supporters have been starving themselves to protest new prisons in which small cells for one to three inmates replaced large ward-style accommodations; they say prisoners in smaller cells are more vulnerable to abuse by guards.

The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prisoners' Advice Service fear that the MoJ's decision to remove legal aid for inmates challenging the types of prisons in which they are being held may reinforce difficulties prisoners face in transferring to open prison and beginning the process of rehabilitation.

In 2004 a pilot service started in two prisons, in which the local forensic psychiatric service provides care to psychotic prisoners, in the last stage of their imprisonment.

In 1791, Jeremy Bentham published his design of the panopticon: a circular prison in which the prisoners along the perimeter could be observed at all times by a guard in a central tower.

That high level of citizen involvement prompted the renowned 20th-century Swiss playwright and ironist Friedrich Dürrenmatt to allegorize Switzerland as a prison in which each Swiss citizen was at the same time prisoner and guard.

He was arrested at the prison in which he is already serving an eight-year sentence.

Melanie Marr, who oversees the South Carolina prison in which he is being held.

Roman Catholic nuns, among abolitionist protesters outside the prison in which he was held, literally jumped for joy.