1.   Bell dealt with the interests of pretrial detainees and not convicted prisoners.

2.   Everyone understands that the condemned prisoners have been convicted of murder.

3.   The prisoners were convicted of crimes on behalf of the FALN, a militant Puerto Rican independence group, more than two decades ago.

4.   The prisoners were convicted more than two decades ago of crimes on behalf of the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group.

5.   A NEWLY appointed magistrate was accused on Thursday of making up the testimony of a key witness in a bid to convict a prisoner of punching another inmate.

6.   All four life-sentence prisoners were convicted of bomb attacks in England, where IRA convicts often served longer sentences than in Northern Ireland.

7.   He said the prisoners had been convicted of belonging to an illegal organization, the Communist Labor party.

8.   Human rights groups say those long-term prisoners were convicted of being communist spies and sentenced to life in kangaroo military courts on the basis of confessions elicited by torture.

9.   The prisoners were recently convicted.

10.   The remaining prisoners were convicted of fatal attacks against Israelis.