civil prisoner

Civil prisoners and leading political prisoners are held in the prison.

The inmates were usually civil prisoners, for example dissenters and debtors.

For example, civil prisoners sentenced for nonpayment of fines can vote.

He was there for more than eight years, and with the outbreak of World War I he became a civil prisoner.

Civil prisoners sentenced (for non-payment of fines, or contempt of court, for example), and those on remand unsentenced retain the right to vote.

Convicted prisoners, undertrials, detenus and 'lunatics', together with civil prisoners and various other small groups, make up an unknown total population in Indian gaols.

He was in Germany at the outbreak of the Great War and interned as a civil prisoner of war at Ruhleben.

Prisoners themselves are categorized as "civil prisoners," criminal prisoners, prisoners charged under the National Security Act, and military personnel convicted in military court.

There are also special provisions for insane and mentally abnormal prisoners, prisoners under arrest or awaiting trial, civil prisoners and persons arrested or detained without charge.

Prison inmates lodged in Indian jails in relation to non-Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes are classified as civil prisoners.

It has been called a charnel house but at one time it was a place where civil prisoners could be forced to spend a night on the journey by foot to Norwich gaol.

In 1803 the seventh baronet, Sir Henry Tichborne, was captured by the French in Verdun during the Napoleonic Wars and detained as a civil prisoner for some years.

Because the 37-year-old peer is a civil prisoner, there is also a good chance he will be allocated to the jail's C wing, where the cells have their own lavatories and wash basins, saving him the indignity of 'slopping out'.

But that argument failed to convince an appeals court, and Mr. Anderson was sent to the Mendocino County jail in Ukiah - in solitary confinement, jail officials said, because as a civil prisoner he must be isolated from criminal prisoners - pending his surrender of the letter.

Part II also contains rules for prisoners under arrest or awaiting trial (generally referred to as remand), rules for civil prisoners (for countries where local law permits imprisonment for debt, or by order of a court for any other non-criminal process) and rules for persons arrested or detained without charge.