1.   Jones was the first inmate to escape from a Texas prison this year.

2.   Like the smoked turkey that one convict had shipped to himself at a prison several years.

3.   Women give birth in prison every year.

4.   Dissidents have been sentenced to up to four years in prison this year for posting articles on the Internet critical of Chinese leaders and the Communist Party.

5.   Leaders of the uprising, the second at the prison this year, agreed Tuesday to drop demands for an armored car, weapons and ammunition.

6.   Mandela was released from prison that year.

7.   The Jamaican government plans to build a new maximum-security prison this year.

8.   He had, he added, already closed down three prisons this year and planned to close a fourth because they were so run-down.

9.   Twenty people in total had died in prison this year.