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Prisoners in sentence

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Prisoners are sent to a CMU because of their race, their religion or their political beliefs.
When some of McGowan's mail was rejected by the CMU, the sender was told it's because the letters were intended "for political prisoners."
Prisoners were locked down in solitary for 22 hours a day.
Today, civil rights lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging CMUs in court for depriving prisoners of their due process rights and for retaliating against them for their protected political and religious speech.
The message of these groups and my message for you today is that we must bear witness to what is being done to these prisoners.
This story is not just about prisoners.
And unfortunately with these prisoners, one, people don't know what's happening at all and then they're already disenfranchised populations who don't have access to attorneys, not native English speakers.
I relied overwhelmingly on primary source documents or on primary interviews with former and current prisoners, with people that are dealing with this situation every day.
They viewed the people they sold not as fellow Africans but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes.
As it happens, all 100 prisoners have green eyes, but they've lived there since birth, and the dictator has ensured they can't learn their own eye color.
After much pressure from human rights groups, the dictator reluctantly agrees to let you visit the island and speak to the prisoners under the following conditions: you may only make one statement, and you cannot tell them any new information.
What can you say to help free the prisoners without incurring the dictator's wrath?
But on the hundredth morning after your visit, all the prisoners are gone, each having asked to leave the previous night.
It might help to realize that the amount of prisoners is arbitrary.
Using this sort of inductive reasoning, we can see that the pattern will repeat no matter how many prisoners you add.
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.
Of course, you could have spared the prisoners 98 days on the island by telling them at least 99 of you have green eyes, but when mad dictators are involved, you're best off with a good headstart.
Prisoner three sees an even number of black hats, so he knows that his must be one of the black hats the first two prisoners saw.
Prisoners five through nine are each looking for an odd number of black hats, which they see, so they figure out that their hats are white.
Many years ago my teacher wrote, "When students are treated as consumers, they're made prisoners of addiction and envy."
Although for two years, we were like prisoners at home.
So that's first responders and firefighters, refugees, prisoners and prison guards, soldiers, you name it.
Facts like prisoners in the US can be kept in solitary confinement cells that are smaller than the size of an average parking space.
And these were men and women who were putting prisoners through unbelievable humiliation.
And secondly, we know there's no difference between the boys who will be guards and those who will be prisoners.
To the prisoners, we said, "Wait at home.
Here are the prisoners, who are going to be dehumanized, they'll become numbers.
Guards get prisoners to clean the toilet bowls out with their bare hands, to do other humiliating tasks.
They're not prisoners nor guards, they're boys, and you are responsible."
In after-school centers across the United States, Wintley Phipps and the US Dream Academy is breaking the cycle of incarceration by providing high-quality academic enrichment and mentoring to the children of prisoners and children who have fallen behind in school.
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