He is a prisoner of conscience and not a criminal prisoner, as some people claim.

About 4,000 of political and criminal prisoners, arrested during the first Soviet occupation, were to be transported to Russia.

Selected for their willingness to be brutal, they were initially selected from the ranks of criminal prisoners.

At Mauthausen, on the other hand, functionary positions remained dominated by criminal prisoners until just before liberation.

The death penalty has only been abolished for criminal prisoners, not for people fighting for democracy and freedom.

President Ignacy Moscicki grants amnesty to 134 criminal prisoners.

Now serving a second long sentence, he is watched around the clock by non-political criminal prisoners who insure he does not put pen to paper.

This vicious circle increases the over-representation of the powerless in the highly publicized 'hardened' criminal prisoner population.

Generally, the KVCh's efforts targeted criminal prisoners rather than political ones, who were considered unlikely to respond to re-education.

The first releases occurred in mid-July when the government commuted all death sentences and proclaimed an amnesty for all political and some criminal prisoners.

After guards of the local prison fled Goma along with the national army, more than a thousand criminal prisoners escaped through a hole in the prison wall.

The first prisoners (30 German criminal prisoners from the Sachsenhausen camp) arrived in May 1940, intended to act as functionaries within the prison system.

The release of prisoners and the abolition of the death penalty apply to criminal prisoners but not yet to political opponents, whose rights they refuse to recognise.

In Dorchester Gaol criminal prisoners were allowed a peck of coal for their common room every day during the six winter months, and half a peck in summer.

Prisoners themselves are categorized as "civil prisoners," criminal prisoners, prisoners charged under the National Security Act, and military personnel convicted in military court.

Many prisoner functionaries, primarily from the ranks of the "greens" or criminal prisoners, could be quite brutal, especially when an SS guard was around, in order to justify their privileges.

With the help of a criminal prisoner, she managed to have a photograph taken of herself with the babies, which she then was able to smuggle to her husband in Auschwitz.

Some Tests Mandated Dr. Pokrovsky said the Soviet Government has required testing for criminal prisoners, female prostitutes and patients suspected of having AIDS.

PHR-I receives and handles claims from detainees, criminal prisoners, or security prisoners who may have had their right to health violated while in jails, interrogation centers, or prisons.

Originally, these tasks were assigned to criminal prisoners, but after 1939, political prisoners began to displace the criminal prisoners, though criminals were preferred by the SS.

The brutal treatment of the political and Jewish prisoners was not only due to the SS and criminal prisoners, but to a lesser extent also due to German civilians working in the stone quarry.

A clear distinction must be made between the use of hulks by the British for the accommodation of Prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars and their simultaneous use to hold criminal prisoners.

The first of two talks scheduled for that day was at high sun, and it was intended to discuss the mapping of the brain that was done for criminal prisoners and apply it to healing head injuries.

According to this pact, Gandhi was asked to call off the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and if he did so the prisoners of the British government would be freed excepting the criminal prisoners, i.e. those who had killed British officials.

But that argument failed to convince an appeals court, and Mr. Anderson was sent to the Mendocino County jail in Ukiah - in solitary confinement, jail officials said, because as a civil prisoner he must be isolated from criminal prisoners - pending his surrender of the letter.