In the US, criminals are punished in prisons for more serious crimes and in jails for lesser offences.
But the Mayor was referring neither to the jails nor to the intimidation of critics.
There will come a time when there will be no space in India's jails.
Would a place that jails reporters for unearthing corruption offer any more protection to accurate accountants?
Besides, they fret, why assume that county jails will be any better than state prisons?
"There are more victims of human trafficking in our jails than traffickers, " she said.
They had to clamber up and down without ladders, because the jails refused to buy them.
Huhne wrote that he found the first two jails he had been in "fascinating, " said Aitken.
She also said that jails would become more corrupt if cigarettes were taken off prisoners.
The Colorado-based 211s is rated as one of the fiercest such groups operating in US jails.
Indian jails have a reputation for overcrowding, poor management and brutal treatment of inmates.
Hamas is demanding the release of 1, 400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in exchange for him.
There are over 86, 000 people in jails, young offender institutions and immigration removal centres.
Five other jails have been closed since the coalition government came to power in May 2010.
The state of the nation's jails is a politically sensitive issue, ahead of October's presidential election.
Many regional services, such as jails, schools and hospitals, are provided by the county.
In Mexico prisoners do what they please in some jails run by local governments.
The church runs monthly missions to the jails to dispense toothpaste, shampoo and basic food supplies.
"The answer to rising prison populations is not to build more failing jails, " she added.
And in all there's about 30, 000 Iraqis being held in U.S. and Iraqi-run jails.
Sixty-eight journalists are languishing in Turkish jails for the crime of doing their job.
"The Indian government will have to take measures to step up their security in jails, " he said.
"The India government will have to take measures to step up their security in jails, " he said.
The ill-treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli jails is "widespread, systematic and institutionalised", a UN report says.
Today the government regularly jails and tortures dissenters and uses forced labor and rape as management tools.
But human-rights activists say that there are still more than 200 political prisoners in the island's jails.
It said the cost of keeping prisoners in newer prisons was half as expensive as older jails.
On law and order, he has pledged to build more jails and create directly elected police commissioners.
The prisoners said they feared for their lives if they were moved to other already overcrowded jails.
After gang control, the second systemic failing of Latin American jails is overcrowding and thus inhuman conditions.
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