Prison life

A view of the front of Santiago One jail in Santiago, Chile July 6, 2009. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

An Israeli prison guard stands by a window as Palestinians prisoners wait in line before their release from Ofer prison outside the West Bank city of Ramallah December 15, 2008. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

A Palestinian inmate sits in his prison cell in the West Bank town of Jericho March 10, 2008. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte

A Chinese female prisoner practices dance steps in a prison in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, March 29, 2005. REUTERS/China Newsphoto

Prisoners place their hands on a wall as they are brought to jail by Orange County sheriff's deputies in Fullerton, California, June 23, 2009. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Bosnian prisoners joke with each other behind the bars of the country's biggest prison in Zenica October 29, 2008. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Afghan inmates play volleyball at the Kabul's Pul-i-Charkhi prison during a media visit organized by Afghanistan's Sports Persuasive Foundation (ASPF) March 7, 2010. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Afghan inmates attend a martial art class at Kabul's Pul-i-Charkhi prison during a media visit organized by Afghanistan's Sports Persuasive Foundation (ASPF) March 7, 2010. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

An inmate receives a bowl of rice for lunch at a compulsory drug rehabilitation center in Changzhi, Shanxi province June 25, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

More than 1500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center perform Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance in celebration of a religious festival in Cebu City central Philippines January 18, 2008. REUTERS/Victor Kintanar

An inmate wearing a teddy bear costume waits from behind bars before a performance during Father's Day celebrations in Sarita Colonia prison in Lima, June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

Inmates of a prison camp for women perform during a "Lady Spring 2010" beauty contest in Selo Gornoye, some 160 km (99 miles) north of the far eastern city of Vladivostok March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev

Thai prisoner Teerayuth Wanaprasit warms-up during a training session at Bangkok's Thonburi prison January 14, 2009. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

A Filipino prisoner receives a haircut inside a national penitentiary in Muntinlupa city, south of Manila, August 30, 2006. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Fachruddin kisses his son from behind bars at a jail while awaiting trial in Jakarta March 21, 2007. Fachruddin says he has not seen his son for three months. REUTERS/Beawiharta

An inmate holds the hands of his partner in the visitor's room of a Tuberculosis prison hospital in the Siberian city of Tomsk some 3500 km (2175 miles) east of Moscow June 4, 2008. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Prisoners attend a cult meeting presided over by Evangelical pastor Marcos Pereira da Silva, at the 52nd Police Station jail in Nova Iguacu, near Rio de Janeiro, October 29, 2009. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

A Palestinian inmate holds Muslim prayer beads in a prison in the West Bank city of Nablus February 11, 2008. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte

Inmates participate in a computer workshop in Al-Mwaqqar Rehabilitation and Correctional Center near Amman November 4, 2009. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji

Inmates grow their own vegetables at a greenhouse in Al-Mwaqqar Rehabilitation and Correctional Center near Amman November 4, 2009. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji

Police officer watch over Tacumbu prision in Asuncion June 20, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno

Prisoners bend the bars of a gate to pass from one wing to another as they riot inside Tacumbu prison in Asuncion June 20, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno

An injured prisoner is removed by policemen during a riot at La Mesa jail in Tijuana in Mexico's state of Baja California September 17, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes

Prisoners on a roof throw stones during a riot at La Mesa jail in Tijuana in Mexico's state of Baja California September 17, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes

Prisoners transport the body of another prisoner killed during a riot in San Pedro Sula prison April 26, 2008. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Prisoners watch a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ by their fellow inmates on Good Friday in Mexico City's Reclusorio Oriente prison March 21, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar

Prisoner Silvia Rodas Paniagua and her daughter sit in a cell at the Unidad (Unit) 33 prison in Los Hornos near La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province in late October 2007. In this medium-security prison female inmates, several of them...more

Filipino prisoners who completed technical courses, wear graduation attire as they chat with fellow inmates before a graduation ceremony inside the country's main prison facility in Muntilupa city, south of Manila April 22, 2009. REUTERS/Romeo...more

A convicted inmate takes a walk at Sarajevo's city prison August 13, 2008. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj