How To Use Prisoner In A Sentence

She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
And if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a better one in its place, until my word conquers yours. A Crystal Age
The iron hooks that prisoners were chained to are still visible on the walls.
The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
Members of the 800th Military Police Brigade had to use lethal force several times to quell prisoner uprisings, the report says.

The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
Without a wheelchair, she is a virtual prisoner in her own home.
Sick prisoners in the camp were 'cared for', in inverted commas, by guards, not nurses.
The prisoner was brought to court for trial.
A Republican assemblyman supported the bill, citing that half of California prisoners smoke and the development will cut health care costs.
Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain. ANC Daily News Briefing
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, went to the Hammam, his father in his joy at this event freed the prisoners, and presented splendid dresses to his grandees and bestowed large alm-gifts upon the poor and bade decorate the city seven days. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
To say how prisoners spend their time on leave is up to individuals is totally unacceptable. The Sun
Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.
The guard growled out a warning,threatening the prisoners with his gun.
He called the PM a failed leader and tried to partly blame him for the fiasco over failure to deport foreign prisoners. The Sun
17 The writ, literally “for replevying a man,” was a means of procuring the release of a prisoner—an earlier equivalent of the writ of habeas corpus. A History of American Law
Prisoner 651304 Hughes had been awarded three months loss of remission, plus the removal of televisual privileges for six weeks. THE SCAR
The law also offers former exiles, political prisoners and relatives of the victims the option to apply to a committee to clear their names. Times, Sunday Times
Most teen - ager prisoners have unhealthy moral behaviour at school.
There are also scenes of prisoners attacking guards, shanking each other, and discussing their murders, assaults, and mutilations in graphic terms.
The breakout brings to 15 the number of awaiting-trial prisoners who have escaped from police holding cells in the Transkei since the weekend.
Too many high-risk prisoners are set loose after cursory checks, sometimes just a quick phone call. The Sun
He preferred to watch, unobserved, the street life of the city from a hole in his prison wall, than to smoke cheroots and talk politics with his fellow prisoners.
The security services used harsh methods of sensory deprivation against prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
As if that weren't sufficient grounding to make a prison film, he based this on a true story, co-wrote it with one of the original prisoners involved, and cast it with non-professionals, including another of the cellmates.
The Danish government gave the Association permission to purchase food from Danish sources and to import foodstuffs from neutral countries for reshipment to needy prisoners of war (this permission was highly unusual given the tight blockade that the Allies imposed on Denmark to prevent the trans-shipment of food to Germany). Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed. Times, Sunday Times
They were each sentenced to 29 years in prison but were released in 1992 as part of an amnesty granted to political prisoners, having served only five years of their sentence.
He had tasted it as a prisoner of war in Germany, and the wine, a thimbleful in a mustard jar, was underripe and short on the finish. Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
‘No’ she said sharply ‘but there is no reason for me to talk to brainless dimwits like you, I am after all your prisoner’ she said, and she scowled.
They run the risk of becoming prisoners at any time. Times, Sunday Times
Open prisons prepare prisoners for life back in the community.
The prisoner escaped from the prison by knotting the sheets together and climbing down them out to the window.
Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others.
The prisoner escaped through a hole in the wall.
The prisoner broke away from his guards.
Actual policemen brought the prisoners down to the police station in handcuffs and did the booking.
It is hoped prisoners can provide information about unsolved cases and will call a free Crimestoppers number. Times, Sunday Times
At 2pm on Tuesday last all 190 prisoners were locked in their cells as prison officers staged a one-hour walk-out.
He handed to the prisoner, as he spoke, the writing materials, which had been seized upon by the archers on their first entrance, and then commanded those satellites to unhand the minstrel. Castle Dangerous
We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
Several religious leaders have interceded with the authorities on behalf of the condemned prisoner.
The prisoners were taken down in the elevator one at a time.
The original intention had been that it would hold 1000 prisoners. The Prisons We Deserve
The prisoner was successfully rehabilitated
She called on the government to speed up the process of release for hundreds of political prisoners still in jail.
The original intention had been that it would hold 1000 prisoners. The Prisons We Deserve
Now the games that involved, and we can basically say that they were blood sports, they might involve pitting of slaves or prisoners of war, against wild animals or gladiators.
The prisoner told lawyers he was tortured using the strappado, in which a prisoner is suspended from a bar with handcuffs.
He even abolished the system whereby the police controlled prisoners once they were released and introduced what we call the probation system where an independent probation service, a non-police service, supervises the prisoners. Churchill: A Life
For many prisoners life inside is so much better than outside that some ask to stay. Times, Sunday Times
A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoner inthralled! The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
My book was chosen in part because it deals with issues familiar to many prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
December 7, a municipal, at the head of a deputation from the Commune, came to read to the king a decree which ordered him to take from the prisoners "knives, razors, scissors, penknives, and all other sharp instruments of which prisoners presumed criminal are deprived; and to make a most minute search of their persons and of their apartments. The Ruin of a Princess
There was crisis too within the republican movement, as a generation of prisoners was entering a second decade in prison, and a third generation of republican activists since 1969 were becoming involved.
The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
Well, there are no legal orders which permit you to rape and torture prisoners.
Three prisoners were crammed into a cell designed for one person. Times, Sunday Times
the prisoner's ankles were so chained together that they could only march in lockstep
A special committee has been appointed to handle prisoners' grievances.
‘The Lord’s anointed is a prisoner now in the light grating of Chapter 1 - Part IX
They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence.
Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
Starting new ones will only compound the problem: the traditionalist is in the same boat as the liberal to the extent that both are prisoners of a denominational market (p. 205), even when appeal is constantly being made to the model of Reformation confessio - or even early Christian martyrdom. Ramsey Lecture - Durham - 'The Lutheran Catholic'
Inside the cages, the prisoners remain manacled.
The Oxford based Phoenix Prison Trust is aiming to recruit prisoners to meditation using classes and a book of basic techniques.
The governor commuted the prisoner's sentence of death to one of life imprisonment.
He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp.
She had gone to that bungaloid mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb certain she would find her patient kept under duress, perhaps even physically a prisoner, possibly maltreated, and she had been prepared to call the police and tell them here was someone detained against his will. Portobello
Sick prisoners in the camp were 'cared for', in inverted commas, by guards, not nurses.
A variation on this theme was that the prisoner had reformed or had shown sufficient contrition for their crime.
Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon. The Story of Pocahontas
From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Whether a prisoner awaiting execution has the right to have a baby, is a point of dispute in the legal field.
The guard growled out a warning,threatening the prisoners with his gun.
IT'S obvious why the number of prisoners on the run has doubled. The Sun
The prisoner was bound hand and foot.
One prisoner grumbled about the quality of his vegan meal. The Sun
Not the $8 an hour knocker, sticker, bleeder, tail ripper, flanker, gutter, sawer, and plate boner slaughterhouse jobs that even Americans prisoners on work release won't do. What Do Immigration and Religion Have to Do with the Price of Meat? Everything!
The prisoners were filed off to the seaports and crowded into cattle-wagons, the awnings of which, hermetically closed, let in no breath of air.
They were officially internees, rather than prisoners, and life, although monotonous and full of deprivation, was not brutal.
Prisoners' families face continual harassment and attack.
The entire place echoes constantly with the screams of prisoners.
In 1843 the gaol had a governor, two turnkeys and two guards but no matron for female prisoners until 1850 when the second stage of the gaol was completed.
As Alfonso Cuaron took Hogwarts by the scruff of the neck and transformed Prisoner of Azkaban into a film worthy of its medium and not just its source, so Mike Newell takes the series one step further.
Will the prison system cope adequately with the increasing numbers of prisoners?
Choose your weapons carefully, be merciless, be thorough, and take no prisoners!
In France, the Elysee Palace is still reeling after a "bossnapping" - manufacturer 3M improved the severance packages for more than 110 workers in exchange for the liberty of manager, Luc Rousselet, who spent more than 24 hours as prisoner of his own furious employees. Undefined
Reports in the media that long-term prisoners had been allowed to relax at Sun City and "jol" on the Cape Flats over the festive season, caused danger lights to flicker and placed the onus on the government to take urgent action, De Ville said in a statement. ANC Daily News Briefing
The prisoner was confronted with his.
The torture failed to break the prisoner's spirit.
As if that were not enough, it keeps its eye on the fate of political prisoners and other untried detainees in 65 countries and runs 16 major hospitals in Africa and Asia.
One purpose of a term of imprisonment is to secure just retribution for society, the other is to secure the rehabilitation of the prisoner.
Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees.
He was a model prisoner, and was released after serving only half his five-year sentence.
There were a further 303 prisoners held under administrative detention, without trial.
The service was expanding rapidly because of the sharp rise in prisoner numbers and the need to open new establishments. Times, Sunday Times
Mollie Steimer, a leading anarchist and advocate for the rights of political prisoners, was a codefendant in one of the most publicized antiradical trials in American history. Mollie Steimer.
He said ministers had ignored problems about failed asylum seekers and foreign national prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
We should spare a thought for the prisoners too. Times, Sunday Times
To the end of May freed prisoners were transported via Klagenfurt to collecting points in Bari and History of Stalag XVIII A
These prisoners of war and internees were held in camps extending from Burma to the Philippines and even to mainland Japan.
The prisoner escaped by the back stairs.
He reversed the judgment and set the prisoner free after all.
Trains lines were dynamited, and civilians were attacking police stations and disarming police officers and taking them prisoner.
The prisoner was keeping back vital information.
The exchange of prisoners of war was one of the key elements of the UN's peace plan.
Its defendants praised the reformatory emphasis of Pentonville, its generally softer punishment regime, its system of solitary confinement, and its emphasis on prisoners' self-development.
Common problems include drones being used to deliver drugs, mobile phones and food to prisoners and to capture footage of football matches and concerts from open-air stadiums. Times, Sunday Times
The vast majority of prisoners would lack the wherewithal to gather the witnesses and documents needed.
The differences between what happened at Fort William Henry and at Niagara need not be seen as evolutionary; the aftermath of battle had yielded many scalps and prisoners for the Iroquois at Niagara.
The prisoners who had missed from the place of reform through labour were picked up within 24 hours.
Another form of uberveillance is the use of bracelets worn by dangerous prisoners which use global positioning systems to pinpoint their movements. Aftermath News
I purchased bracelets from the league at that time the war started and provided bracelets to others genuinely concerned about returning our soldiers that were missing or prisoners in Viet Nam. Letters and Notes
The Turks forced the Anglo-Indian prisoners of war to march across the desert without adequate food, water, shelter, or medical attention and large numbers of POW's died under terrible conditions before reaching prison camps in Anatolia. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
Dr. Sandford, my cousin Gary is a prisoner and in the hospital. Daisy in the Field
William was pleased that he had not been sick, although a few of the prisoners had spent most of the journey with their head over the side retching their empty stomachs out.
There was no need for another trial as the prisoners had already been tried and sentenced in an open court.
He pardoned more than 1,000 political prisoners and allowed exiles to return.
Prisoners are usually referred to in the masculine gender. The Prisons We Deserve
The infractions are limitless: The endless list of political prisoners and Mumia Abu-Jamal readily come to mind as attestment to this fact. Black America Under Siege: Without and Within
MORE than 4,000 prisoners have absconded over the last ten years. The Sun
But for some prisoners, their crimes are too abhorrent. The Sun
They then barred him from watching Prisoner Cell Block H, before extending it to a total television ban.
The former prisoner of conscience was elected president of the new democracy.
New coalition policies published this week did not include plans for managing prisoner numbers. The Sun
Still, man is the only prisoner who knows he is condemned to capital punishment; that the sentence is without appeal; and that it has been passed already.
Six prisoners are still at large along with four dangerous recidivists.
They are demanding the release of all political prisoners.
The policeman waited to detect the prisoner in a lie.
Prison officials then instituted an hour a day of "psycho-educational teaching" for the prisoners, who were placed in cage-like outdoor cells arranged in a semicircle and facing a counselor.
They captured more than ten thousand prisoners and large quantities of arms in that campaign.
When it showed more prisoners, the Australian Defence Department said that its failure to pixelate the faces of captives was an infringement of the Geneva Conventions.
The service was expanding rapidly because of the sharp rise in prisoner numbers and the need to open new establishments. Times, Sunday Times
There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping.
The officers have shown insensitivity towards the prisoners, who all share a common faith.
The prisoner had already served notice of application to appeal to the final court.
The fire was started to create a diversion, allowing some prisoners to escape.
He helped create and expand the Bastille legend, exhibiting in his waxworks insurgents, released prisoners, and a model of the fortress, carved from its ‘last’ stone.
Call barring means that the prisoner can, as with phonecards, call any number except those specifically barred by the Prison.
The prisoners overpowered their guards and locked them in a cell.
Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
Many of these prisoners were previously assessed by forensic psychiatrists who decided no effective treatment was available to treat what was often regarded as criminal behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
The prisoner has been released for humanitarian reasons.
Even when this crisis is over, there are police officers who will work at guarding prisoners.
The prisoner's family is conducting a tireless campaign for his release.
Word is now that Stephen Harper is going to try to progue Parliament again until after the Olympics rather than submit to an order by the House of Commons to turn over uncensored documents in the Afghan prisoner investigation. Rumors of a coup
We don't want New Zealand's good name muddied by links for the torture of prisoners, which is reputed to include beatings, electric shock treatment, and sleep, food and water deprivation. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
This new compound is quite near the present camp and the prisoners will therefore continue to enjoy the advantages of living on the lakeside. Work Camp 10294 L
They confronted the prisoner with his accusers.
Steel Fists cut the bonds holding the three prisoners.
And these men were political prisoners, who knew but what, in the seesaw way of politics, some of them might be in office sometime? COUP D'ETAT
All prisoners are urged to pursue educational and cultural activities.
He spent a lot of time at the prison, while giving the prisoners art lessons for creative and therapeutic reasons.
They were kept prisoner for eight months in a tiny flat.
By the letter of the judges of the circuit court of the United States, held at Boston in June last, and the inclosed application of the underkeeper of the jail at that place, of which copies are herewith transmitted, Congress will perceive the necessity of making a suitable provision for the maintenance of prisoners committed to the jails of the several States under the authority of the United States. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington
On June 14 troops marched into the town in triumph to take prisoner 12,000 defeated and hungry troops.
The panopticon, an 18 th-century prison design dominated by a central viewing tower, called for an elimination of privacy and constant surveillance of prisoners.
The shudder in Tsushiko's body movements told Chase of the prisoner's rising anxiety.
This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
Actors playing warders, who were walking with prisoners, were not allowed to walk past other warders walking with prisoners in the corridor.
She told us once to pray for all prisoners and captives. The Railway Children
I was a prisoner because I debarked at Mili Atoll.
They stipulated to release all the prisoners
The idea is that he will be used as a makeweight in a deal to get one of their prisoners back.
One of them glanced scowlingly at Floyd, as he passed the lad, evidently associating his wounds with the presence of the prisoner. The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis
However, it said it would allow lenders to make special arrangements for existing borrowers who did not meet the new criteria, so that they would not become "mortgage prisoners" unable to move house or remortgage. Mortgage borrowers face more scrutiny
A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
Dr. Scoville, though he still kept his word and maintained his position with regard to the prisoners, continually "thorned" the captain with a prospect of the gallows, which he declared was his certain doom. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer
He remembers another prisoner clocking him with an iron pipe.
Hundreds of prisoners armed with makeshift weapons then barricaded themselves inside the block. Times, Sunday Times
The prisoners plotted an escape route.
In 2008, things were much worse: a confidential report written for Paradzayi Zimondi advised him that prisoners at Chikurubi Prison went for days without a meal and were occasionally supplied with food "only meant to keep a person alive" such as sadza and salted, unclean water. Crikey » Canberra Calling
Cooped up in a small dark cell, the prisoner hadn't seen daylight for five years.
After hiding in the hole for several days,the escaped prisoner gave himself up.
McCain meanwhile, is a decorated war veteran who spent nearly five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain in Colorado - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The governor of the prison is investigating allegations that a prisoner was attacked and beaten by a prison warder.
released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons
The prisoner moaned a prayer for help.
Everybody knew about Hitler's order that no commandos should be taken prisoner.
Rehabilitation of prisoners may carry three distinct meanings.
We are all prisoners of our childhood and feel an obligation to it.
In battle, I came to pity enemy prisoners because I had a cause to fight for and they did not.
The system for allowing prisoners out on temporary licence has been too lax up till now and we are making major changes to address this. Times, Sunday Times
The Association received permission from the Danish government to purchase food from local sources and import provisions from neutral countries for reshipment to war prisoners. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
All the prisoners were put into one great boat, and in another of the biggest they placed all the women, plate, jewels, and other rich things: into others they put the bales of goods and merchandise, and other things of bulk: each of these boats had twelve men aboard, very well armed; the brulot had orders to go before the rest of the vessels, and presently to fall foul with the great ship. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
If a prisoner is badly treated, he may descend to violence.
The prisoner raised his fist in a gesture of defiance as he was led out of the courtroom.
They also want all prisoners detained during the revolution to be released and for the repressive emergency law to be repealed. Times, Sunday Times
Each prisoner spends an hour each week with a personal counsellor. The Prisons We Deserve
The ship's commander refused to pass on even clothes, food and basic necessities to his prisoners.
The marquise found Desgrais at the appointed spot: he gave her his arm then holding her hand in his own, he gave a sign, the archers appeared, the lover threw off his mask, Desgrais was confessed, and the marquise was his prisoner. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
The prisoners were so thin that their skin hung loose.
The invaders cut off their prisoners' arms and legs and threw their mutilated bodies into the ditch.
He was a virtual prisoner the moment he put down his suitcase. Christianity Today
The greatest mistake in life is to get addicted to drugs - becoming a prisoner of ecstasy and hallucination, and less of a man. Dr T.P.Chia
The prisoner used foul language towards the policeman.
Many of the prisoners in America's supermaxes also can be held indefinitely as the Iraqi prisoners were.
One of the prisoners taken on board that day was John Bentcliffe, who had been imprisoned at Portland awaiting transportation.

How To Use Prisoner In A Sentence

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