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All western Indians at that point in time were now prisoners of war.
On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
Prisoners are still born into prisoner of war camps, long after the guards are gone.
Teachers were prisoners.
This was a meditation program inside the prison of over 1,000 prisoners.
One thousand prisoners who sat in meditation.
I took the same thing to the police, because police, equally, were prisoners of their minds, and they felt as if it was "we" and "they," and that the people don't cooperate.
We don't hear about the Einstein who used his celebrity to advocate for political prisoners in Europe or the Scottsboro boys in the American South.
Shortly after I performed the first liver transplant, I received my next assignment, and that was to go to the prisons to harvest organs from executed prisoners.
And at each time, I would feel the chilling stares of condemned prisoners' eyes follow me.
I was troubled that the retrieval of organs from executed prisoners was at least as morally controversial as the harvesting of stem cells from human embryos.
On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.
If we don't supply vitamins to the prisoners, it's a war crime."
And the next morning, supplies of vitamin B12 are delivered to the camp, and the prisoners begin to recover.
And they did this study and it said, that at two hours a day, prisoners get more outside time than children.
One key factor determining the future success of both inmates and their children is whether they can maintain ties during the parent's incarceration, but prisoners' phone calls home can cost 20 to 30 times more than regular phone calls, so many families keep in touch through letters.
Our conversation moved quickly, from a large number of political prisoners in American jails, to Derrius wondering about the legacy of the Black Liberation Movement of the '60s, and how his life might be different if he'd come of age then, instead of 30-odd years later.
So as a humanist, I believe that human beings are challengers, not prisoners of faith.
For too long, we have been prisoners of our past.
And as I looked into his eyes, I realized that for the hundreds of letters I had written for political prisoners, that I would never have written a letter for him, because he was not a 12-year-old boy who had done something important for anybody.
We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for just the worst, but, in fact, 95 percent of torture today is not for political prisoners.
You know, he never quite made it to all of them every day, but he wanted to visit all 156 prisoners.
And most of the prisoners said that he was their greatest joy and their sunshine, and they looked forward to him.
We can retool prisons so that HIV prevention and harm reduction is available to prisoners.
Whether it was concocting delicious meals from stolen scraps from the warehouse, sculpting people's hair with toenail clippers, or constructing weights from boulders in laundry bags tied on to tree limbs, prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside and start restaurants, barber shops, personal training businesses.
And every day, every day we wake up with the rule of the militias and their continuous violations of human rights of prisoners and their disrespect of the rule of law.
It took all day, and the prisoners had a great time.
Also, if you look at prison movies, sometimes the way that the guards torture the prisoners is to get them to dig a hole, and when the prisoner is finished, they ask him to fill the hole back up and then dig again.
In Rwanda, they are now getting 75 percent of their cooking fuel in their prison system from the contents of prisoners' bowels.
And under the guidance of the amazing Lear deBessonet, we started the Public Works program, which now every summer produces these immense Shakespearean musical pageants, where Tony Award-winning actors and musicians are side by side with nannies and domestic workers and military veterans and recently incarcerated prisoners, amateurs and professionals, performing together on the same stage.
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