Prisoners in sentence

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I didn't break a law, and I kept my abaya — it's a black cloak we wear in Saudi Arabia before we leave the house — and my fellow prisoners kept asking me to take it off, but I was so sure of my innocence, I kept saying, "No, I'm leaving today."

For example, when I studied at graduate school at Queen's University in Canada, the prisoners at the Collins Bay jail agreed to help me.

The subjects in this study were members of the U.S. military who were undergoing a harrowing training exercise to teach them what it's going to be like for them if they are ever captured as prisoners of war.

So taking Peterborough as an example, we add case management across all of the different organizations that we're working with so they know what actually has been done with different prisoners, and at the same time they learn from the Ministry of Justice, and we learn, because we pushed for the data, what actually happens, whether they get re-arrested or not.

And again, in Peterborough, we started off with a program, but we also collected data, and over the period of time, we nuanced and changed that program to add a range of other elements, so that the service adapts and we meet the needs of the long term as well as the short term: greater engagement from the prisoners, longer-term engagement as well.

Built at the end of the Victorian Era by the inmates themselves, it is where England's most dangerous prisoners are kept.

In January of this year, I went to Myanmar to interview political prisoners, and I was surprised to find them less bitter than I'd anticipated.

For instance, the central jail for political prisoners, which was established by the Russians, was taken over by the Stasi and used until the end of Communism.

Usually, they were told that they were going to be exchanged for prisoners of war.

And what made him so excited about this discovery was that that would mean that the prisoners would have to assume that they were being watched at any given moment, which would be the ultimate enforcer for obedience and compliance.

And she said that people are only prisoners if they consider themselves to be.

The first time I met with the prisoners, I asked them why they were asking for a writing workshop and they told me they wanted to put on paper all that they couldn't say and do.

Many of the prisoners hadn't even completed grammar school.

People like my aunt who puts on plays with prisoners.

Father Daniel Berrigan once said that "writing about prisoners is a little like writing about the dead."

I think what he meant is that we treat prisoners as ghosts.

Prisoners and guards call them "Little Guantanamo."

CMU prisoners have all been convicted of crimes.

I'm here because as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said, "When the prisons and gates slam shut, prisoners do not lose their human quality."

Their phone calls can be limited to 45 minutes a month, compared to the 300 minutes other prisoners receive.

On top of that, CMU visits are non-contact which means prisoners are not allowed to even hug their family.

But through court documents, open records requests and interviews with current and former prisoners, some small windows into the CMUs have opened.

There's an estimated 60 to 70 prisoners here, and they're overwhelmingly Muslim.

The CMUs also include some non-Muslim prisoners.

But that might be because the government hasn't fully explained why some prisoners end up in a CMU, and who is responsible for these decisions.

Now, keep in mind there are about 400 prisoners in US prisons who are classified as terrorists, and only a handful of them are in the CMUs.

Like other CMU prisoners, McGowan repeatedly asked for an answer, a hearing, or some opportunity for an appeal.

The unit insists that all the visits have to be in English for CMU prisoners, which is an additional hardship for many of the Muslim families.

According to the Bureau of Prisons, they are for prisoners with "inspirational significance."

I think that is very nice way of saying these are political prisons for political prisoners.

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