The principle comforts the prisoner and jail inmate becomes happy.

At some jails inmates are being locked in their cells for longer because there are not enough officers to supervise work and education schemes.

Now jail inmates have found that sun salutations and the cobra posture are the keys to a more tangible freedom.

In 2009, 92.9% of prisoners (not jail inmates) were male.

Now most are given bail, and most pay a bail bondsman to afford it. 62% of local jail inmates are awaiting trial.

He doesn't believe prisons do enough to rehabilitate inmates by making them learn skills to earn an honest living when they get out.

However, it added that only inmates with security clearance should get access to restricted websites as part of wider efforts to rehabilitate inmates.

They argue that they do not rehabilitate inmates but rather serve only to cause inmates psychological harm.

Accounts from released inmates, leaked memos and reports by human rights groups have created a disturbing picture of how detainees have been treated.

Ministers are preparing to use government buildings as prisons to avoid having to release inmates on short sentences as jails risk being overwhelmed.

Many are also developing aftercare opportunities to help released inmates back into their communities.

Prison authorities will release inmates this weekend to accommodate arrested protesters, who will be taken away in a fleet of public buses converted into mobile holding cells.

Such projects keep newly released inmates in work and out of harm's way.