It also increases the incidence of inmate strong-arming, as the prison underground economy shifts to the most basic of needs.
By October, as I was settling into teaching in New York, all the political prisons, every underground secret compartment, were falling one by one to the revolutionaries.
The Chinese authorities have sentenced to prison seven underground church leaders who were arrested last April and charged with belonging to an illegal cult, according to a Christian rights group.
As made clear by Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, in her essay Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism, "the economic panic deepened in the early 1970s, at the same time that radical political activists were assassinated, went to prison, disappeared underground, or fled into exile".
Reports abound of underground prisons in Syria where political prisoners are held for years, without access to sunlight, let alone friends and family.
Arbitrary arrests and forced disappearances turned the country into a penitentiary state with countless underground prisons.
More blatantly, heroes from Buffalo Bill to Sherlock Holmes and dozens more confound the Mormon villains by rescuing their victims -- men as well as women -- from drugged stupors, underground prisons and guarded mountain cities.
Anyone caught trying to escape service will likely be arrested and detained for a lengthy period of time often in the extensive network of underground prisons, or in shipping containers at blazing temperatures.
In this subversive women-in-prison horror flick, Zoe plays one of 50 women trapped in an underground prison where they're forced to fight each other to a bloody pulp in order to win freedom.
Near Hay al-Mohammadi, in Derb Moulay Sherif, there is an infamous underground prison, originally built by the French, where conditions for political prisoners were said to be unspeakable under Mr. Basri.
