1.   And state officials are investigating allegations, first reported in The New York Observer, that two prisoners died after being denied proper treatment by St. Barnabas.

2.   Associated Press correspondent C. Yates McDaniel reports that in the excitement one prisoner dies of a heart attack as he reaches the main gate.

3.   At the same time, Zhang said, China sometimes paroles political prisoners who are seriously ill because the authorities fear being held responsible if prisoners die in custody.

4.   A recent report from Amnesty International gave roughly the same assessment, noting that two prisoners died in Bahraini jails, apparently from mistreatment.

5.   A Palestinian prisoner died on Tuesday in an Israeli hospital three days after his arrest, prompting an investigation by the Justice Ministry into possible abuses by his interrogators.

6.   But through beatings and threats of execution, even when he watched fellow prisoners die under torture, Kim refused to give in.

7.   It is not clear how many prisoners have died in the last five months, but several prisoners said that cellmates had died from sickness.

8.   Last week one prisoner died and dozens, possibly hundreds, have come down with dysentery.

9.   Many inmates were sick or wounded when they arrived a month ago, and endured a terrible journey during which some prisoners died from injuries or asphyxiation.

10.   Most prisoners died, and skulls of some of the victims were bleached and used as paperweights by SS officers.