Sentences with phrase «other prisoners»

The prisoners demanded the right to wear their own clothes, time to associate with other prisoners, the right not to work and access to leisure activities.
Numerous times I got attacked by other prisoners only to have the guards turn on me, despite no aggressive action on my part.
Then at 11:30 pm they put me in a prisoner transport van with other prisoners.
Although those conditions are a marked improvement from a decade ago (at least the MDR - TB patients are isolated from other prisoners), the opportunity for reinfection is ever present under such crowded conditions.
The NTC, therefore, has few judicial officials it can rely on to prosecute Saif's case in a way that would demonstrate to international observers that he can receive a fair trial in Libya, which does not bode well for the thousands of other prisoners awaiting trial in the transitional justice process.
The statement further indicated that «other prisoners in detention, as a result of their involvement in the demonstrations, would have their cases examined by the Togolese Judiciary to determine their fate after going into the merits of their individual cases.»
While being transported back from a rock quarry, Scorpion and six other prisoners escape taking them across copper mine mountains, into a small village occupied an old woman, and onto a bus with a group of hostages.
Part of his time was spent with other prisoners quarrying a large cutting for the railway, which would earn the macabre name «Hellfire Pass», so called because the sight of emaciated prisoners working by torchlight resembled a scene from hell.
Later he taught other prisoners these subjects at night — for a small gratuity, of course, since his mentor, Franklin, was also an astute entrepreneur.
«The committee took into account the fact that it had recently approved the first stage of a research project looking at the response by prisons to adult male prisoners» reports of sexual offences committed by other prisoners whilst in prison.»
Separating those convicted of trivial offences from their family, forcing them to socialise with serious criminals, stuffing our prisons to the rafters, costing the taxpayer millions, letting out other prisoners because we're imprisoning people for stealing a Mars bar: these are not sensible policies.
«June Benson has taken advantage of every opportunity she has been presented while in prison to achieve an education and to assist other prisoners and their families,» Governor Paterson said.
• A correctional officer confronted a violent prisoner, who was off his medication and began smashing a TV and mirror and threatened other prisoners.
Bolstered by the support of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, the terrorists were seeking the release of 40 Palestinian militants — as well as 13 other prisoners around the world.
On the ship, she meets other prisoners who are also being moved, including Richard Spader (James Purefoy), a man convicted of killing his wife but who claims he is innocent.
The early sequences in the gulag are so hard - bitten and harrowing that the escape by Janusz and six other prisoners represents a liberation for us as well.
It is best to do this after other prisoners, or the guards, have beat them unconscious, but before the medic carries them off.
Unlike other prisoners, however, who become «monsters» due to frustration of prison life, Porro believes that he gained some meaning during his time in jail.
Among other things, he also began lecturing along with other prisoners at business schools, in an effort to keep others from making his same mistakes.
I was sexually assaulted [by other prisoners]....
Even if imprisonment does not permanently crush an imprisoned offender, it means loss of employment, temporary (if not permanent) loss of family, risk of harmful influences from other prisoners and few chances of future employment.
And he took his week of solitary confinement, 23 1/2 hours a day spent staring at stone, waking to the screams of other prisoners, standing numbly while guards ransacked his cell in search of drugs or weapons.
Unfortunately, a notorious criminal, Chibueze Henry Oyenkachi, aka vampire on whose behalf the hoodlums are suspected to have carried out the dastardly act, and 7 other prisoners escaped.
No matter where I went, and whoever was around — from my cellmate to other prisoners in my housing unit, to even the correctional officers who delivered my mail, people gravitated toward me, asking questions about what I was focused on.
Anecdotal reports suggest coercive sex may be rife in prison, with victims who do lodge complaints being mostly ignored by prison staff and attacked by other prisoners for reporting on fellow inmates.
Shaker is now on a hunger strike with other prisoners, according to the prison rights group Reprieve.
Then Perez and a captain, Gerald Vaughn, ordered several officers to assault Jahmal Lightfoot to send a message to other prisoners.
Later he was placed in an 80 sq. ft. cell with three other prisoners.
Once the guards and other prisoners were gone, they jumped through the window, off the second floor of the jail, landing on a pile of hay.
Among the other prisoners facing a death sentence is Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was thrown in jail back in 2010.
He's getting involved in a program to share his testimony to other prisoners.
After four months of solitary confinement, Shahla was moved to be with 40 other prisoners.
They prayed and sang hymns to God with the other prisoners listening intently to them, amazed that these two guys were still willing to sing with joy... not doom and gloom.
Update (April 29): Along with nine other prisoners, Iranian - born U.S. pastor Saeed Abedini has been placed in solitary confinement, the American Center for Law and Justice reports.
«Conrad remains very snobbish, despite having the same daily routine as all the other prisoners,» said a source.
«Finally, we call on the government to ensure that any reports of torture in detention concerning Gao Zhisheng and all other prisoners are investigated thoroughly and impartially, and that those found to be responsible are held to account.»
They took the eighteen brothers, and sisters who had chosen for their part to confess God and inherit eternal life by becoming his sons and daughters, they bound their hands and feet, they attached them to posts surrounded with mats and they put them with the other prisoners.
In fact, they are brutalised: often by other prisoners, often by the authorities themselves - locked up in squalid conditions, without entertainment or learning, without work or access to study resources, and forgotten about.
Amnesty International UK claims arbitrary detentions and arrests, the imprisonment of peaceful protestors and other prisoners of conscience, as well as torture and the ill - treatment of detainees are all still rife in Tibet.
He said only traffickers would be kept in the jail, to stop them from mixing with other prisoners and potentially recruiting them to drug gangs.
Half of the inmates told investigators they'd been victimised by other prisoners.
They're twice as likely as other inmates to be abused by staff or other prisoners; five times more likely to be sexually assaulted; and eight times more likely to commit suicide.
Many researchers have assumed that the logical choice is betrayal, since your potential outcomes, depending on what the other prisoner does, are zero or three years — less time on average than the consequences of staying silent (one or five years).
Many developed TB either because their immune systems, weakened by drugs, alcohol and poor nutrition, could no longer keep latent TB in check (an estimated one third of the world's population has latent TB) or they caught it from other prisoners.
Setting out to break Irwin by whatever means necessary, the colonel's tactics only fuel Irwin's defiance and cause the other prisoners to rally behind the general in his new mission: to seize control of the prison and remove Winter from his command.
It cuts back and forth in time; it draws parallels between different modes of prejudice and abuse; it pictures external events (the 1936 Olympics where Louie ran in the 5000 - meter race and apparently spotted and admired Jesse Owens [Bangalie Keita] from across the track); and it also imagines Louie's elusive interior life, not in letters home read aloud or even earnest discussions with other prisoners, but instead, and more shrewdly, in repeated tight frames on his face.
Frank, at first, doesn't want to associate with Stacey and the other prisoners, but trapped in the hellhole prison, he more and more turns into a bitter con.
He survives the next few days in Bliss» tumbleweed wagon with the other prisoners, and is later cleared of any wrongdoing and released by Judge Fenton (Pat Hingle), just in time to witness the hanging of the man who really murdered the owner of the cattle and took Cooper's money.
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