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in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan
the 17th century Biaroza monastery Biaroza , Belarus , has in its time been adapted into military barracks and a prison , and currently its ruins are an important baroque relic in the town?
former Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?
an island purchased by Lloyd Mathews prison is now a conservation area for giant tortoises ?
Ruiz v. Estelle civil suit filed by a prisoner against the Texas Department of Corrections in 1972, became the most far-reaching prison lawsuit in American history?
English gaol keeper and animal breeder Daniel Lambert (pictured) weighed 52 stone 11 lb (739 lb; 335 kg)?
the territorial governor of Montana Preston Leslie prostitute convicted of grand larceny because the penitentiary was not equipped to accommodate women?
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons ?
the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary ?
with the Trusty system prison labor at Mississippi State Penitentiary , the 1,900-inmate prison was staffed and its 16,000 acres of crops farmed with only 150 paid employees?
the first gay mass-market paperback situational homosexuality and male rape in prison ?
the account of the death of 12,000 prisoners aboard the Gulag ship Dzhurma
the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire prison sentences for the owners?
the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility prison in Oregon ?
Stanislav Konopásek ice hockey -playing career when he was imprisoned for allegedly trying to defect from Czechoslovakia in 1950?
Lepoglava prison Croatian : Kaznionica u Lepoglavi ) is the oldest and largest prison located in Croatia ?
Tennessee politician Tommy Burnett state legislature while he was in U.S. federal prison ?
Antwone Fisher prison in which his mother was incarcerated?
Swiss artist Harald Naegeli jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979 ?
Russian composer Boris Sobinov Berlin American Zone by the NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the Soviet Union ?
John Story , the first Regius Professor of Civil Law University of Oxford , was elected to parliament , gaoled , exiled , re-elected , kidnapped , put in the Tower , tortured , hanged, drawn and quartered , and finally beatified ?
prisoners of the Iraqi Special Tribunal are transported in armored buses called Rhino Runners ?Bredtveit prisons in Norway ?
Dharmachari Aryadaka Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state ?
Johan Teterisa prison for waving the banned secessionist flag of the so-called Republic of the South Moluccas in front of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a nonviolent protest?
police officers in Croatia guns if there is a threat to their life or the lives of other people, or to prevent a crime from being committed for which the maximum prison sentence is five years or more?
Jerry Rosenberg New York's longest-incarcerated inmate , was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot ?
Florida State Hospital Chattahoochee originally served as Florida 's first penitentiary ?
General Edmund Rice regiment against Pickett's Charge , was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor ?
Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin married twice while in prison ?
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