With few phone privileges, many felt as if they were lost in a hellish labyrinth far from the lives they had been plucked from.

For a series of outbursts last January, Charlie lost all phone privileges.

First, the detainees learned that their unlimited phone privileges would be curtailed.

Send them to three prisons far apart, put them in isolation for a period of time, make sure they have no phone privileges, no mail.

He was allowed to telephone his fiancée while at the FBI offices for interrogation, since the jail had refused him phone privileges.

Some senior Government officials, members of the National Congress included, apparently were also granted free phone privileges.

It is assumed that the housmate with the phone privilege is Sindi, since she was talking about their conflicts shortly before that.

"No phone privileges," he said, his face long and dour.

Phone calls, he said, are never monitored, as some former residents maintain, but phone privileges are denied to those who "misbehave."

Guards can file false disciplinary charges against inmates, and can see to it that they do not receive packages or are denied phone privileges.