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	The Monument
		The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument that stands today in the center of Fort Greene Park is a 1908 memorial to the 11,000 men, women and children who died in horrid conditions on the British Prison Ships during the Revolutionary War.
		Among the city's most remarkable monuments, the Prison Ship Martyrs Memorial was designed at different times by the two most important landscape-architecture firms in the city's history: Olmsted, Vaux and Co. and McKim, Mead, and White.
		Those who refused were taken as prisoners of war and held captive on ships where they died at a rate of 10 to 12 a day, according to John Krawchuk, who is heading the reconstruction project for the city's Department of Parks and Recreation.
	www.prisonshipmartyrs.com /monument.html (1310 words)

	Prison ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A prison ship is a boat or ship that is used as a prison.
		The United Kingdom Government established in 1997 a new prison ship, HMP Weare, as a temporary measure to ease prison overcrowding.
		The HMS Maidstone was used as a prison ship in Northern Ireland in the 1970s for suspected Nationalist terrorists held without trial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prison_ship (147 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Ministers say new private jail means end for prison ship
		The prison, which is the 11th private jail in England and Wales, is built in a style reminiscent of a superstore.
		So instead of the traditional uniform grey paint on prison corridors, the workshops feature orange, the discharge areas splashes of green, the segregation unit is marked by its deep red paint and the activity areas are painted lilac.
		It served as a troop ship in the Falklands war and a floating prison on the Hudson river, New York.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1434108,00.html (687 words)

	Britain's Prison Ships, 1776-1783
		Prisoners died from starvation and disease, flogging and other forms of violence, and were buried, usually by their fellow prisoners, in the sands of the bay.
		The prisoners, irritated by their ill treatment, rose one night on the guard, "the commander being on shore, and several, in attempting to escape, were either killed or wounded.
		The surgeons visited the ships only once in several days, their manner was indifferent and even unfeeling, their stay on board very brief, and their medicines very sparingly bestowed.' The greatest neglect was exhibited by the nurses, of whose conduct all our authorities speak in terms of indignant reprobation.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/north5.html (3307 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		He said the authority was concerned about an extra 500 prisoners being added to the area's existing 1,000 strong prison population, and the possibility of escapes.
		The Prison Service has said the vessel would be necessary for three years, a timescale doubted by the local council because of the level of investment involved.
		During a visit to Winchester Prison in Hampshire, the Home Secretary said he would be examining ways to reduce the time inmates spent in jail on remand awaiting trial, and cutting the number of fine defaulters who were sent to prison.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/news/05/0516/prison.shtml (393 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Ministers say new private jail means end for prison ship
		The opening of Britain's newest prison at Peterborough this month enabled Home Office ministers yesterday to announce the closure of the country's only prison ship, HMP Weare, eight years after it was opened as a "temporary measure" to deal with overcrowding.
		One of the prison workshop areas is to be converted into a healthy living and alternative therapy centre for women.
		The ship is moored in Portland harbour, Dorset, and holds 400 men over the age 25 who are serving the last nine months of their sentence.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /publicservices/story/0,11032,1434164,00.html (684 words)

	Society \| Prison ship 'unacceptably cramped and claustrophobic'
		Britain's first prison ship for 200 years should be shut down unless it receives a multimillion pound refurbishment, the chief inspector of prisons said today.
		Anne Owers, head of the prisons inspectorate for England and Wales, condemned HMP Weare, which is berthed at Portland in Dorset, as "merely an expensive container...
		Ms Owers said the ship, which opened in 1997, was unsuitable for use as a 21st century prison and said a decision on its future must be taken urgently.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5055054-107705,00.html (389 words)

	Book 1 Chapter 1 The Prison Ship. - For the Term of His Natural Life - Marcus Clarke, Book, etext
		There was no breeze, and as the clumsy ship rolled and lurched on the heaving sea, her idle sails flapped against her masts with a regularly recurring noise, and her bowsprit would seem to rise higher with the water’s swell, to dip again with a jerk that made each rope tremble and tauten.
		Their prison was down the main hatchway, on the ’tween decks, and the barricade, continued down, made its side walls.
		It was customary on board these floating prisons to keep each man’s crime a secret from his fellows, so that if he chose, and the caprice of his gaolers allowed him, he could lead a new life in his adopted home, without being taunted with his former misdeeds.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/C/ClarkeMarcus/prose/NaturalLife/b1c1prisonship.html (2603 words)

	Prison ship -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A Prison Ship is a boat or ship that is used as a (A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment) prison.
		The (Click link for more info and facts about United Kingdom Government) United Kingdom Government established in 1997 a new prison ship, HMP Weare as a temporary measure to ease prison overcrowding.
		On 09 March 2005 it was announced that HMP Weare was to close.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prison_ship.htm (98 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		Plans to use the prison ship Weare, moored at Portland, have been marked by controversy since it was ordered by the last Government to help take pressure off Britain's rising prison population.
		He told MPs: "This prison ship is not an ideal solution to the rising prison population.
		The ship was then moored on the city's Hudson River, where it was used as a drug rehabilitation centre.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/news/06/0609/ship.shtml (344 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Government attacked on prison ship
		The Conservative shadow prisons minister Cheryl Gillan has criticised the Government for allowing a floating prison capable of holding 400 inmates to lie empty while it is considering releasing prisoners because of overcrowding.
		The final prisoners were taken off HMP Weare on August 12 this year after it was condemned as "merely an expensive container - and in the wrong place" by Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers.
		She said it was unsuitable for use as a training prison in the 21st century and said a decision on its future must be taken urgently.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=2094792005 (555 words)

	London police may moor prison ship on Thames. 19/12/2004. ABC News Online
		The London police are holding discussions about possibly mooring a prison ship on the River Thames in a bid to ease pressure on the spiralling inmate population.
		She said the ship should be closed down unless a massive amount of cash was spent on refurbishment.
		HMP Weare was a troop ship which Britain deployed in the 1982 war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200412/s1268529.htm (383 words)

	London police may moor prison ship on Thames : Melbourne Indymedia
		The prisoners performing this work a Lockhart are paid minimum wages for this highly profitable work, and the prison keeps 80% of that for room and board.
		The nurse at the prison's infirmary later noted that 5 to 6 inches of the boy's intestines were in the colostomy bag.
		There is so much documentation available on the failures of for-profit prisons in the US that the Australian decision makers would have had to be both uninformed and incompetent not to be aware of the facts about the records of the contractors they appointed.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /print.php?id=85059 (4042 words)

	Prison ship 'may be introduced' \| the Daily Mail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The existing prison ship, the Weare, which is moored at Portland in Dorset, can hold 400 inmates and was introduced in 1997.
		The spokesman refused to confirm reports that the new ship could hold 500 low-security inmates and be moored at Barrow-in-Furness in the north west of England.
		Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers said she was concerned about the impact of the growing prison population.
	www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=113711&in_page_id=1770 (673 words)

	Bender and Flexo - Season 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ultimately, the duo are sentenced with two years aboard the prison ship and have no choice but to serve their sentence.
		Bender decides to devise a plan to hack into the prison ship’s computer and restore Curver’s memory, but chaos ensues when he is caught by none other than Curver himself and his sentence is extended by six more months.
		When a meteorite unexpectantly collides with the prison ship, half of the prisoners must be blasted into space in order to decrease the weight so the others may be spared.
	www.geocities.com /benderandflexosmexicanjourney/5.htm (1547 words)

	Interactve Role Players Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ship slowed down until it was in orbit around the prison planet.
		If the prison planet has developed a high level of technology; it would not be possible for me to drop off the prisoners that I now had on board.
		Several members of the crew tried to take over the ship and are now waiting in their own cells to be dropped off with the prisoners.
	www.ssetc.net /IWA/Prison.htm (1471 words)

	British prison ships in New York Harbor
		The Black Hole of Calcutta, in which English soldiers in overcrowded prisons were suffocated to death, is the nearest resemblance to what occurred on the terrible prison ships and in other British prisons in New York City, Charleston, and Savannah.
		Ten thousand American Patriots, mostly in their early twenties or thirties, imprisoned on board the inhuman British prison ship Jersey, were given stinking food and literally starved to death or died of disease.
		Out of the 20,000 prisoners in New York, there were not more than 5,000 captured soldiers: 3,000 surrendered at Fort Washington, 1,000 at the battle of Brooklyn, a few hundred at White Plains, and in the capture of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, and the rest in skirmishes in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Westchester.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /prison.html (4028 words)

	Britain considers prison ships - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Britain's first prison ship, HMP Weare, is currently berthed at Portland in Dorset, Sky News reported Sunday.
		The ship was condemned in November as "merely an expensive container - and in the wrong place" by Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers.
		She said the ship should be closed down until money was spent on repairs and upgrades.
	washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20041219-035628-2987r.htm (183 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Dorset \| Only prison ship in UK to close
		Mark Leech, editor of the Prisons Handbook, welcomed the decision to close the ship and said: "The Weare is a relic of a bygone age.
		Prisoners will be reallocated to other prisons in the South West or, where appropriate, closer to their home area, the spokesman said.
		Many of the 200 prison officers on mobile contracts will be moved to other jails while others will be offered early retirement and given the chance to take redundancy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/dorset/4333739.stm (396 words)

	icNorthLondonOnline - Met wants Thames prison ship
		The Metropolitan Police wants to moor a prison ship on the Thames in a bid to tackle the spiralling inmate population.
		A decision is expected at the end of the year on the fate of Britain's first prison ship, HMP Weare, currently berthed at Portland in Dorset, a Met spokesman has confirmed.
		Last month, the ship was condemned as "merely an expensive container - and in the wrong place" by Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers.
	icnorthlondononline.icnetwork.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=14993787&method=full&siteid=50102&headline=met-wants-thames-prison-ship-name_page.html (276 words)

	The Fort Greene Park Conservancy
		The story of the horrid Prison Ships – and the ghastly conditions suffered by the men, women and children imprisoned on them during the Revolutionary War – is one of the most disturbing chapters in American history.
		The apprehended soldiers, sailors and civilians were deemed by the British to be prisoners of war and were incarcerated.
		Life was unbearable on the prison ships, the most notorious of them being the Old Jersey – which was called "Hell" by the inhabitants.
	www.fortgreenepark.org /pages/prisonship.htm (773 words)

	Sign Information
		Over 11,500 men and women died of overcrowding, contaminated water, starvation, and disease aboard the ships, and their bodies were hastily buried along the shore.
		In 1808 the remains of the prison ship martyrs were buried in a tomb on Jackson Street (now Hudson Avenue), near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
		The remains of the prisoners were moved to the site in 1873 into the newly created 25 by 11 foot brick vault.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=13308 (674 words)

	U.S.S Admiral H.T. Mayo Daily Newspaper - June 21, 1945
		If you are a former Prisoner of War or a next of kin of a POW, we invite you to sign and leave your email address so others that come may find you.
		A ship's service store which wells everything from cigars to ladies' silk stockings, does a tremendous business; as does the clothing store which can completely outfit any member of our crew.
		Our ship is steered by a man who turns a small wheel; electricity transmits his instructions to a great hydraulic ram which swings the rudder, weighing many tons, from side to side.
	www.merkki.com /ussadmiralmayo.htm (2650 words)

	London police in talks over prison ship - World - www.smh.com.au
		London police are in talks to moor a prison ship on the River Thames in a bid to tackle the spiralling inmate population.
		A decision is expected at the end of the year on the fate of Britain's first prison ship, HMP Weare, which is currently berthed at Portland in Dorset.
		A spokesman for Scotland Yard said today discussions were underway on the suitability of the ship and a decision should be expected at the end of the year.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/London-police-in-talks-over-prison-ship/2004/12/19/1103391620900.html?oneclick=true (355 words)

	Blake's 7
		Finding himself onboard a prison ship headed for Cygnus Alpha, the penal colony, after having been found guilty of a crime he didn't commit, Roj Blake vowed to have vengeance on the Federation.
		They were sent because the ships self-defense system had beaten many of the prison ship crew and it was decided that the prisoners were expendable.
		After teleporting back to the ship, they are soon on their way to the planet Saurian major where they meet Cally, the sole survivor of a virus released by the Federation which wiped out the resistance.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/7514/b7.html (358 words)

	Jewish Heroes in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was treated very badly on a prison ship and, after several months, he and his son were transfeffed to a British garrison in Savannah.
		Sheftall had difficulties while in prison and he was finally freed when the British and Americans exchanged prisoners of war.
		These ships ransacked and destroyed many British commercial ships, which started to hurt their owners in their pocketbooks.
	www.fau.edu /library/brody4.htm (446 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Prison ship plan for binge drinkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir Ian said the ship would be a short-term solution to the shortage of police cells in London.
		It would be used for short-stay prisoners, such as drunks who are locked up for a night.
		HMP Weare was originally a troop ship in the Falklands war before becoming a floating jail in the US.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=156102005 (526 words)

	STAR WARS: Warships of the Empire: Catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Labelling of this ship as a “cruiser“ is an obvious misnomer since it is distinctly inferior to a mere destroyer in firepower and size; this “cruiser” label is probably best interpreted in terms of a civilian cruiser (a liner or passenger ship of some kind).
		The ship was commanded by Wedge Antilles' childhood nemesis Captain Loka Hask, a former pirate responsible for the manslaughter of Antilles' parents.
		Avenger was not the ship responsible for the jamming.
	www.theforce.net /swtc/dagger.html (14087 words)

	Harry Van Stack Collection at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		The ship was re-rigged and outfitted with cells and for the next forty-nine years she carried untold numbers of individuals to Australia.
		Its history as a trading vessel and a convict ship is described in the numerous articles found throughout the collection.
		It is the Oldest Ship Afloat, Having Been Launched in 1790, and has had a Remarkable Career as Queen Ship of the British Felon Fleet' Transporting Prisoners from England to Australia for Fifty Years, and Later as a Receiving Prison Anchored at Hobson's Bay.
	www.rbhayes.org /mssfind/sp_coll/vanstack.htm (6742 words)

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