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Prisoner in sentence

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I'm not here to argue the guilt or innocence of any prisoner.
Every prisoner I've interviewed has said there are three flecks of light in the darkness of prison: phone calls, letters and visits from family.
As one CMU prisoner said, "We're not being tortured here, except psychologically."
This example from another prisoner shows how those requests are viewed.
When a CMU prisoner has a visit, the rest of the prison is on lockdown.
When another prisoner, animal rights activist Andy Stepanian, was sent to a CMU, it was because of his anti-government and anti-corporate views.
He took the very first natives he met prisoner and wrote in his journal about how easily he could conquer and enslave all of them."
Any prisoner can approach the guards at night and ask to leave.
The fact that the other person waited tells each prisoner his or her own eyes must be green.
Now imagine a third prisoner.
Now, besides knowing at least one of them has green eyes, each prisoner also knows that everyone else is keeping track of all the green-eyed people they can see, and that each of them also knows this, and so on.
What any given prisoner doesn't know is whether they themselves are one of the green-eyed people the others are keeping track of until as many nights have passed as the number of prisoners on the island.
If the ninth prisoner saw an odd number of black hats, that can only mean one thing.
The first prisoner has a 50% chance of giving a wrong answer about his own hat, but the parity information he conveys allows everyone else to guess theirs with absolute certainty.
And for every silent prisoner of shame, it's the fear of judgment that's holding you hostage.
So Jane basically has one of two options: stay at the hospital on bed rest, a prisoner to the technology until she gives birth, and then spend the rest of her life paying for the bill; or head home after her 10-day stay and hope for the best.
There's interesting research from Joe Henrich and others that says if your country was at war, especially when you were young, then we test you 30 years later in a commons dilemma or a prisoner's dilemma, you're more cooperative.
And it should not have escaped you that the reason I paired the prisoner with his arms out with Leonardo da Vinci's ode to humanity is that that prisoner was mentally ill.
That prisoner covered himself with shit every day, they had to roll him in dirt so he wouldn't stink.
Randomly assigned them to be prisoner and guard.
As the wheel turned, the prisoner was forced to keep stepping up or risk falling off, similar to modern stepper machines.
Until last November, I was a serving prisoner, imprisoned for fraud.
When I was a prisoner at Channings Wood Prison, I began working for a charity called Storybook Dads.
I remember one prisoner who came to record.
And they show the prisoner that they can do something for their child, as a parent.
But this time, I'd like to play you a recording made by a prisoner, because it encapsulates the power of what we do.
The prisoner was an Irish Traveller who couldn't read.
This is an extract from the raw recording, where the prisoner is reading the story by repeating it, phrase at a time.
He's a very high-risk security prisoner in the UK and one of the most important Al Qaeda figures to be arrested in Britain.
Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five, he hops back and forth between a childhood trip to the Grand Canyon, his life as a middle-aged optometrist, his captivity in an intergalactic zoo, the humiliations he endured as a war prisoner, and more.
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