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	United Kingdom prison population information - Search.com
		The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of incarceration in western Europe: on average 109 people in every 100,000 are in prison (although this is far short of the 702 per 100,000 in the United States).
		In 1991 the total prison population was 42,000 and in 1992 it was 45,800.
		In February 2003 the prison population stood at 72,144, of which 4,810 were serving life sentences (averaging 13 years), and there were 3,740 female prisoners.
	www.search.com /reference/United_Kingdom_prison_population (826 words)

	United Kingdom prison population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of incarceration in western Europe: on average 139 people in every 100,000 are in prison (although this is far short of the 714 per 100,000 in the United States).
		In 1991 the total prison population was 42,000 and in 1992 it was 45,800.
		In February 2003 the prison population stood at 72,144, of which 4,810 were serving life sentences (averaging 13 years), and there were 3,740 female prisoners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_population (824 words)

	Prisons in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prisons in the United States are operated by the Federal government, as well as by each of the state governments.
		In the United States, prisons are operated at various levels of security, ranging from minimum-security prisons that mainly house non-violent offenders to Supermax facilities that house well-known criminals and terrorists such as Terry Nichols, Zacarias Moussaoui, and Richard Reid.
		Often prisoners are confined in their cells 23 hours a day, but in some institutions prisoners are allowed out of their cells for most of the day, and when out of their cells, are always kept in the cell block or an exterior cage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_prison_population (2115 words)

	Prison - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Prisons conventionally are institutions authorized by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war.
		Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, so-called unlawful combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by military or civilian authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime.
		The United Kingdom's Maze (HM Prison) Prison at Long Kesh was used during the internment period in Northern Ireland to imprison suspected paramilitaries.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Jail (1060 words)

	Prison - Wikipedia Light!
		Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is the legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.
		Prisons may also be used as a tool of political repression to detain political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and "enemies of the state", particularly by authoritarian regimes.
		Prisons are often rated by the degree of security, ranging from minimum security (used mainly for nonviolent offenders such as those guilty of fraud) through to maximum security and super-maximum or supermax (often used for those who have committed violent crimes or crimes while imprisoned).
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	Bambooweb: United Kingdom prison population
		The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of incarceration in western Europe: on average 109 people in every 100,000 are in prison.
		The prison population is split between local prisons, remand centres, training prisons, yound offender institutes and open prisons.
		In 2002 the average number of people in prisons in England and Wales was 70,860, up from 66,300 in 2001, and a doubling of numbers since 1992 (in 1900 there were 14,460 male prisoners, 2,980 female prisoners).
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/U/n/United_Kingdom_prison_population.html (441 words)

	More on Prison
		Prisons conventionally are institutions authorised by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war.
		Individuals may also be committed to prison by a court before a trial, verdict or sentence, generally because the court determines that there is a risk to society or a risk of absconding prior to a trial.
		Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, and those whose freedom is deemed a risk by military authorities.
	www.eduhistory.com /prison.htm (922 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Prison Conditions in the United States
		Thirty percent of prisoners are estimated to have major depression and 15 percent may have a psychotic disorder.
		The evidence is overwhelming that it is cruel and a violation of basic human dignity to force prisoners with serious mental illness to spend years confined round the clock in claustrophobic cells, with nothing to do, and no one with whom to have a normal conversation.
		Five state prison systems in the United States permit the use of aggressive, unmuzzled dogs to terrify and even attack prisoners in efforts to remove them from their cells, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.
	www.hrw.org /prisons (1495 words)

	United Kingdom
		The Scottish prison service reported 14 deaths in prison during the year: 11 cases were apparent suicides pending the results of routine inquests, and 3 were due to natural causes.
		The United Kingdom is a destination country for trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and in men, women, and girls for manual labor.
		The United Kingdom generally is not a country of origin for trafficking; however, each year hundreds of persons, usually young women, are forced into marriages outside the United Kingdom, particularly in India.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8364.htm (12160 words)

	crimeinfo.org.uk
		The United Kingdom relies on Parliament to classify what acts are criminal and what the penalties for these criminal offences are; the idea being that those most harmful to us carry the harshest penalties.
		This is despite the fact that prison is the most costly response to crime (at about £300 a night) and rates of re-offending of released prisoners are extremely high.
		Prisoners learn new skills which they willingly use to provide goods and services to disadvantaged people all over the world; new skills which should improve their own employment prospects after release.
	www.crimeinfo.org.uk /crimeandjustice/index.jsp (1246 words)

	Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		There are a variety of other names for prisons, such as a prison-house, penitentiary or jail (in British English, sometimes spelled gaol).
		Some observers have gone so far as to accuse the United States of deliberately developing the legal system and the prison industry as a means of social control beyond that normally associated with criminal justice.
		Many facets of prison society have made their way into mainstream culture, such as the practice of secretly brewing pruno, the custom of dominant prisoners retaining personal bitches, and the dangers of "dropping the soap".
	www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/p/pr/prison.html (1161 words)

	All cultures have cultural problems. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The total population of the United States [census.gov], projected to September 24, 2001 at 6:34:55 PM PDT is 285,218,008.
		U.S. Prison Population Rising [abcnews.go.com], says that the percentage of growth of the U.S. prison population is rising.
		The United States of murder [bbc.co.uk], says that the city with the highest murder rate, Washington, D.C., has a murder rate 170 times higher than the city with the lowest murder rate, Brussels, Belgium.
	www.futurepower.org /paz/cultures_problems.htm (1094 words)

	rds prisons
		Long-term forecasts which project the growth of the prison population over the next eight years are published annually as one of the series of Statistical Bulletins.
		The International Centre for Prison Studies was established in the School of Law, King’s College London in 1997.
		HOSB 2/98 Revised projections of long term trends in the prison population to 2005
	www.homeoffice.gov.uk /rds/prisons1.html (589 words)

	International Religious Freedom Report 2002: United Kingdom
		Approximately 45 percent of the population identify with Anglican churches, 10 percent with the Roman Catholic Church, 4 percent with Presbyterian churches, 2 percent with Methodist churches, and 4 percent with other Christian churches.
		An additional 2 percent of the population is affiliated with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), the Church of Christ, Christian Scientists, and Unitarians.
		The Prison Service does not consider Scientology as a religion and does not recognize it for the purpose of facilitating prison visits by ministers.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13989.htm (2915 words)

	ICL - United Kingdom - "Constitution"
		Anyone sent to prison for murder is liable to be detained for the rest of his or her life but may be released on license.
		(5) Life Sentence Prisoners: People serving life sentences for the murder of police and prison officers, terrorist murders, murder by firearms in the course of crime or the sexual or sadistic murder of children are normally detained for at least 20 years.
		Life sentence prisoners are released on life license and are subject to recall should their behavior suggest that they might again be a danger to the public.
	www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/uk00000_.html (8922 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Europe - UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		His father claimed collusion between prison officers and the Republican prisoners and called for a public inquiry into the shooting.
		Prisoners continued to allege ill-treatment and racist abuse within prisons, and to complain about an inadequate system to investigate their allegations.
		In September, three prison officers were convicted of ill-treating prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, during the 1990s.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/eur/uk!Open (2262 words)

	Prison
		A prison or penitentiary or jail (in British English, sometimes spelt gaol) is a building or system used to hold persons convicted of crimes.
		Their lobbying arm is ALEC which advocates legislation favorable to the industry.
		The practice of undergoing punishment via a prison sentence, is colloquially expressed as: "doin' time".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Prison.html (112 words)

	Capital Of United Kingdom
		Kingdom Institute for capital of united kingdom Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works lost, stolen or damaged capital of united kingdom - important news
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		outside Saughton the united kingdom prison in Edinburgh this afternoon was restriced by police using
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	United Kingdom - Amnesty International
		In December the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords ruled by a majority of eight to one that indefinite detention without charge or trial of non-deportable foreign “suspected international terrorists” under the ATCSA unjustifiably discriminated against them, and was, therefore, unlawful.
		Although women comprised only five to six per cent of the prison population, they accounted for 13 to 15 per cent of self-inflicted deaths.
		The Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland reported that overcrowding had worsened and that in some facilities sanitary conditions were grossly inadequate.
	web.amnesty.org /report2005/gbr-summary-eng (2045 words)

	Women in Prison - Home
		The most common offences for which women are sent to prison are theft and handling stolen goods.
		The women’s prison population went up by 173% in the decade to 2004.
		Whatever else a prisoner knows, she knows everything there is to know about punishment because that is exactly what she has grown up with.
	www.womeninprison.org.uk (298 words)

	Webex United Kingdom
		Demographics of the United webex united kingdom Kingdom Lord Robin was gracious enough to provide a page with officer badges and other web graphics he This is the authoritative field guide to mushrooms of the Western United States.
		A conceit in my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is that our cellphones will disappear into our bodies, silently feeding us audio via cochlear implants and micing our throats to pick up sub-vocalizations (something I think I ripped off from Harry Harrison, though others have done it too).
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	BUBL LINK: United kingdom
		Its primary functions are to maintain and revise geological information for the land and offshore areas of the United Kingdom and the nearby continental shelf.
		A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in the United Kingdom, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language.
		Presents news from prisons throughout Scotland, annual reports, strategy documents addressing the management of sex offenders and prisoners' suicide risks, and a directory of institutions with information on their history, development, and targets.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/u/unitedkingdom.htm (1015 words)

	Home Mortgage Rate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		United Kingdom prison population Britain has one of the highest rates of incarceration in western Europe, on average 109 people in every 100,000 are in prison.
		In England and Wales the rate is higher at 138 per 100,000 which is the highest in western Europe (exceeding the 131 per 100,000 of Portugal).
		2.8% of the population and 2.0% of families are below the poverty line.
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	The Independent (London, England): Letter: When prison works.(Comment)(Letter to the Editor)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sir: Dr Gary Slapper makes the point that the present UK prison population of 65,000 is among the highest in western Europe as a proportion of the general population, which is true (letter, 8 January).
		However, if the prison population is related to the number of crimes committed in each country, then the United Kingdom's prison population is about average.
		This is a point which is often made and implies that the sole or primary purpose of prison is to contain the...
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	United Kingdom
		As for arrests, the rate for the general population is 37 per 1,000 per year: for white people it is 34 per 1,000; for Asians 47 per 1,000; for Afro-Caribbeans 155 per 1,000; and other ethnic minorities 64 per 1,000.
		The highest arrest rate for white people (Northumbria) is 59 per 1,000 but only four forces have arrest rates for fl people lower than that; and in seven forces the rate of arrest of fl people exceeds 200 per 1,000, amounting, as the report says, to 'arresting one in every five fl people'.
		She was charged with offences that carry a mandatory prison sentence, but the trial at the Old Bailey was stopped when the court accepted she was unfit to plead.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/uk/uk.htm (9023 words)

	HM Prison Service - Welcome to the Prison Service website
		Prison information alt i, advice and support alt s, careers and jobs alt n, news alt n, resource centre alt r, about the service alt a Skip to main page content
		The Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts covering the financial year 2005-2006 has been published today.
		A new radio project set to improve the skills and education of prisoners has been launched in 2 prisons the West Midlands.
	www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk (189 words)

	A United Kingdom and Ireland Trip
		In England a third of the population died from the disease carried by fleas on the fl rats in the cities.
		One of the prisoners there was Michael Collins of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, who organized classes on all aspects of terrorism.
		Areas of large Catholic population were combined into a single ward, while small pockets of Protestant dwellings were each made into independent wards; the Unionist Part was having its policies set by the "stupid;" Sinn Fein was practically dead.
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