Irish republican paramilitaries serve their time in a top-security countryside prison; drug dealers and car thieves are sent to "the Joy".
Tensions are high ahead of local and presidential elections, which begin this month, and security in the countryside is often tenuous.
Academics and officials in Beijing are now trying to devise a scheme to provide old-age security in the countryside.
The main things missing are good transport, public services and security in the countryside.In Peru a burst of rural roadbuilding and the spread of mobile phones are transforming poorer parts of the country.
Increased security in the countryside and the Ottoman Land Law of 1858 encouraged the development of private property, agricultural production for the world market, the decline of tribal social organization, growth of the population, and the enrichment of the notable families.
In the 1890s some people – including the young Calogero Vizzini – decided to do something about the absence of peace and security in the countryside.
These events made Sigtrygg realise that Dublin's wealth made him an attractive target, and that his city needed powerful allies as well as walls for its security; the Dublin countryside was unable to provide the resources which would allow for competition against powerful Irish princes.
As noted earlier, the upheavals of the early 10th century had vastly increased the need for security, leading in the countryside to the fortification of villages.
Europeans will also concentrate on the "civilian surge" to help create functioning Afghan political, judicial and security structures in the countryside.
In Chad, its 2,500 security men patrolled the countryside in white radio-equipped S.U.V.'s, watching for guerrillas as the company set up an intelligence operation bigger and better than the local C.I.A. station.
After all, every German, French or Turkish soldier deployed to bring security to the Afghan countryside potentially frees up an American soldier to hunt down Al Qaeda -- or maybe even to come home sooner.
