Many of the prisoners awaiting execution have been waiting for ten years or more.
The detention house is used to hold prisoners awaiting trial.
It would be hard to give up feeling useful and responsible- to go back to being a prisoner awaiting death.
They kept her segregated from the other prisoners awaiting trial, so she had no one to talk to.
In addition, more than 40,000 prisoners - 65 percent of the country's total prison population - are awaiting trial.
The other prisoners were anxiously awaiting my return to the gun room.
These were prisoners awaiting trial, not yet convicted and sentenced.
Over five thousand prisoners on that night, awaiting trial, condemnation and death.
"Throughout the states, more than 3,500 prisoners await their deaths," the bishops wrote.
But they were prisoners awaiting court martial, in a detention ward.