1.   Twelve inmates have been killed during a riot at the prison.

2.   At that time Abbott, who had spent most of his life in prison, was finishing sentences for passing bad checks and killing another inmate.

3.   A year earlier, eight inmates were killed in shootings.

4.   He emerges a wreck, and, within hours of his return to the general prison population, kills the inmate who informed on him.

5.   In addition, a Montana inmate was killed in May in a fight between factions from the two states.

6.   In February, the Pennsylvania authorities paroled Robert Simon, despite his being a convicted killer and known prison drug user who had killed another inmate in self-defense.

7.   The case is an appeal by a Missouri inmate, Lloyd E. Schlup Jr., who was sentenced to death for killing another inmate in the state penitentiary.

8.   The Serb Media Center said two inmates were killed and several others injured when NATO bombed a prison in Istok in northwest Kosovo.

9.   The state court ruling was issued a few weeks after a fire in the old jail killed seven inmates.

10.   Three inmates were killed by guards who attacked the cell house from the outside with shotguns and tear gas.