Welikada prison massacre
The Welikada Prison Massacre took place during the 1983 Black July pogrom against Sri Lankan Tamil minority in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Fifty-three prisoners were killed inside a high-security prison. No one has been convicted of crimes relating to these incidents.
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 film)
Jim Caviezel as Edmond Dantès, Zatara, the Count of Monte Cristo Guy Pearce as Fernand Mondego James Frain as J.F. Villefort Dagmara Dominczyk as Mercedès Mondego (née Herrera) Luis Guzmán as Jacopo Richard Harris as Abbé Faria Michael Wincott as Armand Dorleac, prison warden Henry Cavill as Albert Mondego Albie Woodington as Danglars JB Blanc as Luigi Vampa Alex Norton as Napoléon Patrick Godfrey as Morrell Freddie Jones as Colonel Villefort Helen McCrory as Valentina Villefort Christopher Adamson as Maurice
Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson (UK title: Years Without Days) is a 1940 American film noir drama directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien. A thief is sent to Sing Sing Prison, where he is befriended by the reform-minded warden. The film was based on the book "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing", written by Lewis E. Lawes, whom the warden was based upon.
Capital punishment in the United States
In New Jersey and Illinois, all death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life in prison without parole when the death penalty repeal bills were signed into law. In Maryland, Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the state's four remaining death sentences to life in prison without parole in January 2015. While the bill repealing capital punishment in Connecticut was not retroactive, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in 2015 in State v. Santiago that the legislature's decision to prospectively abolish capital punishment rendered it an offense to "evolving standards of decency," thus commuting the sentences of the 11 men remaining on death row to life in prison without parole. New Mexico may yet execute two condemned inmates sentenced prior to abolition, and Nebraska has ten death row inmates who may still be executed despite abolition.
Isaac James Gould
He was born in Uxbridge, Ontario in 1839, the son of Joseph Gould who was a member of the assembly for the Province of Canada. In 1862, he married Rebecca Chapman. He owned gristmills and woollen mills and also took part in the lumber trade and banking. He also served as reeve for Uxbridge and was warden for Ontario County in 1883. Gould was elected by acclamation to the House of Commons in 1900 after the death of James David Edgar and reelected in the general election that followed later that year.
The Problem of Cell 13
Like Futrelle's other short stories, "The Problem of Cell 13" features Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen as the main character, although most of the story is seen through the perspective of a prison warden. While in a scientific debate with two men, Dr. Charles Ransome and Alfred Fielding, Augustus, "The Thinking Machine", insists that nothing is impossible when the human mind is properly applied. To prove this, he agrees that he will take part in an experiment in which he will be incarcerated in a prison for one week and given the challenge of escaping. He achieves the goal with great ingenuity (and aid from his frequent confederate, newspaper reporter Hutchinson Hatch) and explains fully how he did it.
Cool Hand Luke
Decorated war veteran Lucas ``Luke ''Jackson (Paul Newman), is arrested for cutting parking meters off their poles one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida chain gang prison run by a stern warden, the Captain (Strother Martin), and a stoic rifleman, Walking Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), whose eyes are always covered by a pair of mirrored sunglasses. Carr (Clifton James) the floorwalker, tells the rules to the new set of prisoners, with any violations resulting in spending the night in`` the box,'' a small square room with limited air and very little room to move.
John Warden
John Warden (June 11, 1841 – July 2, 1906) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863.
Buck passing
``The buck stops here ''is a phrase that was popularized by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who kept a sign with that phrase on his desk in the Oval Office. The phrase refers to the notion that the President has to make the decisions and accept the ultimate responsibility for those decisions. Truman received the sign as a gift from a prison warden who was also an avid poker player. It is also the motto of the U.S. Naval Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN - 75).
Capital punishment in the United States
The method of execution of federal prisoners for offenses under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is that of the state in which the conviction took place. If the state has no death penalty, the judge must choose a state with the death penalty for carrying out the execution. For offenses under the Drug Kingpin Act of 1988, the method of execution is lethal injection. The Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana is currently the home of the only death chamber for federal death penalty recipients in the United States, where inmates are put to death by lethal injection. The complex has so far been the only location used for federal executions post-Gregg. Timothy McVeigh and Juan Garza were put to death in June 2001, and Louis Jones, Jr. was put to death on March 18, 2003.
Mark Holyoake
Mark Holyoake is a New Zealand gymnast, born in Wellington. He was placed 25th at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and 11th at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was part of the New Zealand team that placed 4th at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and he also placed 4th on the Parallel bars at the same event. In 2010, Mark Holyoake retired and is now a personal trainer at Les Mills International.
James Trainer
James Trainer (7 January 1863 in Wrexham – 5 August 1915 in Paddington, Central London, England) was a Welsh association football player of the Victorian era. He was named the best goalkeeper of the English Football League several years in a row starting with the initial season of 1888–89, when he was part of the unbeaten Preston North End team nicknamed "The Invincibles".
Paddington 2
Ben Whishaw as Paddington Brown, Lucy and Pastuzo's adoptive nephew Hugh Bonneville as Henry Brown, Mary's husband and Judy and Jonathan's father Sally Hawkins as Mary Brown, Henry's wife and Judy and Jonathan's mother Hugh Grant as Phoenix Buchanan, a faded and narcissistic actor, who now stars in dog food commercials Brendan Gleeson as Knuckles McGinty, a safe cracker and prison cook Madeleine Harris as Judy Brown, Mary and Henry's daughter and Jonathan's sister Samuel Joslin as Jonathan Brown, Mary and Henry's son and Judy's brother Julie Walters as Mrs. Bird Jim Broadbent as Samuel Gruber, antique shop owner Peter Capaldi as Mr. Curry Simon Farnaby as Barry the security guard Imelda Staunton as Aunt Lucy, Paddington's adoptive aunt Michael Gambon as Uncle Pastuzo, Paddington's adoptive uncle Joanna Lumley as Felicity Fanshaw Ben Miller as Colonel Lancaster Jessica Hynes as Miss Kitts Noah Taylor as Phibs Eileen Atkins as Madame Kozlova Tom Conti as Judge Gerald Biggleswade Sanjeev Bhaskar as Dr. Jafri Marie - France Alvarez as Mademoiselle Dubois Maggie Steed as Mrs. Gertrude Biggleswade Richard Ayoade as a Forensic Investigator Meera Syal as a Prosecutor
Jay M. Robbins
Jay M. Robbins (born December 2, 1945, in Pasadena, California) is an American trainer in thoroughbred horse racing based in California. He is the son of veterinarian Dr. Jack Robbins, President and founding Director of Oak Tree Racing Association.
List of prisoners with whole-life orders
John Straffen 1952 2007 Britain's longest serving prisoner, who spent 55 years in prison until his death. Straffen was convicted of murdering two pre-teen girls in July 1951. The following year, he escaped for a four - hour period and was convicted of murdering another girl during this short spell at large, although he long proclaimed his innocence. Straffen was reprieved from a death sentence owing to learning difficulties, and instead remained in prison for the rest of his life. He died, aged 77, at Frankland prison in November 2007. For the final five years of his life, he was the oldest prisoner known to be serving a whole life - tariff, following the death of Archibald Hall.
Capital punishment in the United States
Previous post-Furman mass clemencies took place in 1986 in New Mexico, when Governor Toney Anaya commuted all death sentences because of his personal opposition to the death penalty. In 1991, outgoing Ohio Governor Dick Celeste commuted the sentences of eight prisoners, among them all four women on the state's death row. And during his two terms (1979–1987) as Florida's Governor, Bob Graham, although a strong death penalty supporter who had overseen the first post-Furman involuntary execution as well as 15 others, agreed to commute the sentences of six people on the grounds of "possible innocence" or "disproportionality."
Thomas Trantino
Thomas Trantino (born February 11, 1938) is an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to life in prison for the execution style shooting deaths in 1963 of two police officers in Lodi, New Jersey. He was sentenced to death by electrocution, which was commuted to life in prison after the death penalty was abolished in the 1970s. This began a long battle for parole, which continued until his release from prison in 2002.
John Whitley
John Whitley (born January 1944 in Hammond, Louisiana) was a Louisiana corrections officer who served as the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary (or Angola Prison), the largest maximum-security in the United States, from 1990 to 1995. Time magazine credited Warden Whitley with turning around hopelessness and violence at Angola with "little more than his sense of decency and fairness."
Bob Gunton
Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway production of Evita, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He also appears in the Daredevil TV series as Leland Owlsley.
Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is an English film, stage and television actor. He is known for playing Yosser Hughes, the troubled 'hard man' whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking 1980s TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff and, more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Dame Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. He is also known for roles in blockbuster films, including Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime.
Who plays the prison warden in the second movie in the series with the same name as the place where James Trainer died?
James Trainer >> place of death
Paddington
who plays the prison warden in #1 2
Simon Farnaby