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HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison and internment camp in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to September 2000.
Three years after his arrest, Hughes was involved in a fracas and received an additional five-year sentence for assaulting a prison officer. As he was convicted after 1 March 1976, Hughes was transferred from the compounds to the H-Blocks and lost his Special Category Status. He refused to wear a prison uniform and joined the blanket protest.
Since his release from prison he has co-authored four books of photographs documenting the history of Belfast during the last century, as well as producing a number of booklets and magazines. In 2008 he wrote what has been described as the first republican tourist guide to Belfast: Republican Belfast: A Political Tourist's Guide . [ 1 ]
H-block or h-block may refer to: H Block, a compilation album by various Irish folk artists; H Block (Hong Kong), a 1970s block design in Hong Kong; H engine, an internal combustion engine having the cylinders in an H pattern; Maze (HM Prison), Belfast, where the prison blocks were built to a uniform H-shaped plan Anti H-Block, 1981 Irish ...
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Children from impoverished working-class families were often imprisoned at the gaol in the early years for offences such as stealing food or clothing. Thirteen-year-old Patrick Magee, who had been sentenced to three months in prison, hanged himself in his cell in 1858. [2] [3] Women inmates were kept in the prison block house until the early 1900s.
The action puts into question the future for some 4,000 inmates at a Lawton prison and Hinton correctional center Private prison operator GEO looking to end contracts for 2 Oklahoma correctional ...
Wilson was arrested for alleged indecent exposure, and violation of suspended sentence on a previous convicted case, according to the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office. Jail or Agency: Oklahoma County Jail; State: Oklahoma; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/20/2016; Age at death: 30; Sources: www.koco.com, Oklahoma County ...