"But we have no authority to interfere with state prisoners."

About 180 of more than 16,000 state prisoners are now in these special units.

In 2005, it cost an average of $23,876 dollars per state prisoner.

The French were able to release about 50 to 60 state prisoners.

The number of state prisoners has doubled since 1981, to 12,440.

He was the last state prisoner to be held at the castle.

Of these, 47 are state prisoners who will be moved immediately under the court order, he said.

All but 100 of Georgia's 1,200 state prisoners that year were black.

There he remained, more or less a state prisoner, until his death.

This is one of the many jobs performed by state prisoners.