11.   A jailed Russian television reporter has smuggled a letter to a Belarusian newspaper saying that guards purposely humiliated prisoners in an overcrowded prison.

12.   Amnesty and the independent Kenya Human Rights Commission have criticized Kenya for widespread and systematic police brutality, torture in custody and appalling conditions in overcrowded prisons.

13.   An increasing number of Russian convicts have been sentenced to death because the government lacks the money to expand overcrowded prisons, a prominent human rights activist said Friday.

14.   Apparently officials feared the inmates would create a scandal by yelling about abuses at the badly overcrowded prison, he said.

15.   Civil-rights groups protested that the measure would put innocent people in an already overcrowded prison system.

16.   Former Taliban fighters released from an overcrowded prison in northern Afghanistan returned home this weekend with tales of death, brutality and greed.

17.   Hundreds of people arrested during food riots last month remain in overcrowded prisons with no money for bail because they are unemployed, a human rights group said Monday.

18.   Ian Martin told a parliamentary commission that arbitrary arrests, overcrowded prisons and attacks by security forces are common problems.

19.   In Rwanda, the president has yet to sign legislation paving the way for the trials of thousands of genocide suspects crammed into grossly overcrowded prisons.

20.   Increased arrests have led to overcrowded prisons, now filled to three times capacity.