1.   It would be used to house prisoners on the verge of release.

2.   Berenson said the prison, which largely houses prisoners convicted of terrorism, was designed to bring about a slow death.

3.   Because it houses paramilitary prisoners who consider themselves duty-bound to try to escape, the Maze is considered the most secure prison in Europe.

4.   A parked bus housed prisoners until they could be transported to either the county or city jail.

5.   Congressional Republicans propose to prosecute more juveniles as adults and loosen federal mandates requiring that juvenile and adult prisoners be housed in separate facilities.

6.   In other states, private companies have housed prisoners imported from elsewhere.

7.   It housed Confederate prisoners during the Civil War.

8.   Nobody realized how many state prisoners would be housed there, he said, and nobody anticipated that new sentencing laws would further increase the prison population.

9.   Opponents also complained a year ago that the law would result in big expenditures to house more prisoners and care for them when they are elderly.

10.   Pataki said that many other states house maximum-security prisoners two to a cell and that it can be perfectly safe if the state builds new prisons with larger cells.