The inquiry will probably look at whether procedures requiring guards to observe prisoners at least every two minutes were followed the night of the suicides.

For instance, the new prisons are designed in a V-shape so guards can see down two main hallways at once, thus requiring fewer guards.

And these would be high-security facilities, with prisoners confined to their cells, so it would probably require fewer guards.

Some of them were men of little caliber, for these scum-surfaced hulks did not require guards of capability.

And without community service, New York City's Correction Department would require 160 more beds and additional guards at great cost.

The prison now requires fewer guards because the inmates are locked up 23 hours a day and do not go out of their cells to work or attend classes.

And they have also become the first to require round-the-clock armed guards.

"You know that shipment of goods will be dispatched and require guards at the time when you most need Myrmidons?"

It wouldn't require human guards--just tiny drones, about the size of a housefly.

Wingless prisoners simply required fewer guards than one who could fly.