Sentence examples for transfer of prisoners from inspiring English sources
Includes an executive order issued by Governor Throop for the transfer of prisoners from Auburn to Sing Sing, the former prison being overcrowded.
House and Senate negotiators turned back Mr. Obama's renewed push to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, extending a prohibition on the transfer of prisoners to the United States and forbidding the construction of facilities to house them.
"It is generally accepted that prisons require spare capacity to cater for the transfer of prisoners, special-purpose accommodation such as protection units, separate facilities for males and females and different security levels, and to manage short-term fluctuations in prisoner numbers," said the report.
Part of a secret high court judgment which has now been disclosed reveal that an alleged Taliban leader, identified only as Detainee 806, was handed over by the British to a prison in Kabul despite a moratorium banning the transfer of prisoners there because of its reputation for torture.
Among those who had sought to call early attention to the C.I.A.'s transfer of prisoners from Iraq was an Army intelligence officer who served at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.
The transfer of prisoners is happening, though slowly.
"I would never apply the word commodity to human beings," said James R. Roberts, vice president of Dominion, an Oklahoma company that locates private prisons and brokers transfers of prisoners for a fee.
The Guantánamo issue is not part of this review, but leading members of Congress are pressing Mr. Obama to either abandon plans to close the prison or to suspend any transfers of prisoners to Yemen.
The US previously banned any transfers of prisoners to Yemen because of instability in the country.
The government has previously denied having any knowledge of transfers of prisoners from Iraq involving UK forces.
That disappointment was heightened by Mr. Obama's decision in January 2011 to sign legislation to restrict the transfers of prisoners.
