A Prisoner for Christ The letter was addressed to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles—and its contents left the board flabbergasted. It was from an inmate asking for permission to turn down his parole—and stay in prison. The story behind that letter is a remarkable tale of one man's radical obedience to Christ. 80: A Prisoner for Christ July 29, 1989 Whit sends young Nicholas Adamsworth on an Imagination Station adventure to meet an escaped slave named Onesimus and an apostle named Paul.
The number of prisoners in Switzerland has soared in the last 30 years with foreigners now accounting for 80 per cent of the prison population, according to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.
The study shows the rate of incarceration has gone from 72 per 100,000 residents in 1988 to 82 in 2017, Radio Télévision Suisse reports.
During the 30-year period, Switzerland saw its prison population increase from 4,621 to 6,907, a 50 per cent increase overall.
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In the first decade from 1988 to 1998, Swiss citizens made up around 31 per cent of the prisoners compared to 28 per cent who were foreigners living in Switzerland and 41 per cent who were foreigners residing overseas. In 1989, Swiss citizens made up as much as 44 per cent of prisoners.
During the next two decades, the number of Swiss citizen prisoners fell to only 20 per cent, with foreigners residing in Switzerland going up to 37 per cent in the second decade and back down to 28 per cent in the third.
Foreign prisoners who live overseas rapidly grew in the third decade to where they now account for over half of the prisoners in the Swiss prison system.
The deportations make up only a fraction of the total number of foreign adults convicted of misdemeanours or felonies in Switzerland. https://t.co/DX33u9KVeN
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 11, 2018
The statistics come only months after it was revealed that Switzerland had deported 1,000 migrant criminals in 2017, including 348 from the Balkan region and 250 from Africa.
The trend also mirrors other European countries which have seen high rates of crime in which foreign nationals are often suspects.
In Germany, certain cities such as Berlin have released statistics showing that up to half of the crimes committed in the city involve foreign suspects. In some specific crimes, foreigners were shown to be vastly overrepresented including heroin trafficking where migrants made up 85 per cent of suspects in 2016 in the German capital.
In the Austrian capital of Vienna, the disparity between the crime rate of natives and migrants is even starker with foreigners making up more than half of all the suspects in crimes, according to a report released last August.
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World War II Prisoners of War Data File[edit | edit source]
The National Archives has an online searchable database.
This series, part of Record Group 389, has information about U.S. military officers and soldiers and U.S. civilians and some Allied civilians who were prisoners of war and internees.
The record for each prisoner provides serial number, personal name, branch of service or civilian status, grade, date reported, race, state of residence, type of organization, parent unit number and type, place of capture (theater of war), source of report, status, detaining power, and prisoner of war or civilian internee camp site. Records of prisoners of the Japanese who died also document whether the prisoner was on a Japanese ship that sank or if he or she died during transport from the Philippine Islands to Japan. There are no records for some prisoners of war whose names appear in the lists or cables transmitted to the Office of the Provost Marshal General by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 (National archives)
- World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946 (Ancestry) ($)
- World War 2 POW Search (Public)
World War II Prisoners of the Japanese Data Files[edit | edit source]
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This collection contains information on military personnel and a few civilians who were prisoners of the Japanese during World War II. The series includes records principally derived from the series 'Records of World War II Prisoners of War, 1942-1947' (ARC Identifier 583428) and supplemented with military organization and other information.
- World War II Prisoners of the Japanese File, 2007 Update, ca. 1941 - ca. 1945 (National archives)
- World War II Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 (Ancestry) ($)
Related Books[edit | edit source]
The following guide will also be helpful in locating prisoner records:
- Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II: American Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees by DeWhitt, Benjamin L., and Jennifer Davies Heaps, comps. Ref. Information Paper 80. Washington, D.C. National Archives and Records Adminstration, 1992 (FHL book 973 A3rr) (Worldcat)
See Also[edit | edit source]
Prisoners of War and Prisoner of War Camps in the United States[edit | edit source]
- United States World War II Prisoner of War Records of the Enemy Prisoner of War Information Bureau.
- Louis E. Keefer. Italian Prisoners of War in America, 1942-1946: Captives or Allies ? New York: Praeger, 1992
- Floyd G. Conti and Alan R, Perry. Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania:Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, University Press,
- Paul J. Jordan. Italian Prisoners of War and Italian Srvice Units: From Enemies to Co-belligerents. Boston: University of Massachusetts,
References[edit | edit source]
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