Have long-term prisoners forfeited their human rights by committing crime?
The goal was not to win release for all of the long-term prisoners, known as A-1 felons, he said.
In 1989, general amnesties brought about the release of many long-term prisoners.
He had heard that long-term prisoners felt this way when the time came for their release.
They tend to be long-term prisoners with histories of violence.
The officials said they would soon set up a panel to review the long-term prisoners' situation annually.
A jail holding long-term prisoners is trying to help inmates avoid their families breaking up while they're inside.
Instead it made cuts in sentences being served by long-term prisoners.
There are problems, too, in the way in which different prisons have come to deal with long-term prisoners.
"The cars are in the condition of long-term prisoners," he added.
