Prisoners

She visited the four women’s prisons in the country; she could influence the prisoners; she found work for the women who had finished their sentence and cared for prisoners’ children while their mothers were in gaol. ❋ Unknown (1939)

"Some violent demands having been made for the release of the prisoners, it is necessary that every possible precaution be taken for their security; you will therefore be pleased to be very strict in guarding them; and I herewith send _another pair of fetters to be added to those now upon the prisoners_." ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

“Captain, would you please escort Mr. Urda and his…” Harley almost used the word prisoners, but stopped short. ❋ Vince Flynn (2010)

One of the prisoners is a Canadian RAF lieutenant named Gerard, who searches through the littered corpses for his wife, Celeste (a member of the French Resistance), only to learn that she had been executed months earlier after enduring unspeakable torture. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Out of 651 released from different prisons today, 308 are what you call 'prisoners of conscience' like Min Ko Naing and Shin Gambira and 148 are former military intelligence personnel, including former MI chief and Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt," he said. ❋ Aung Hla Tun (2012)

Unless things have changed since I retired, Suffolk’s system for booking in prisoners is no faster than any of the Police Stations shown in ‘reallity’ programmes. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Instead, they found that information on individual prisoners is “scattered throughout the executive branch,” a senior administration official said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Soon after the first Iraq torture scandal, I remember a pompous politician declaring (more or less) that "The reason why we don't torture prisoners is so American soldiers don't get tortured." ❋ Unknown (2009)

But her reputation for taking no prisoners is the kind of attitude needed in DC, so perhaps she is the right one for the job. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And then movement of prisoners is farmed out to Relygroupsecu4plus Ltd. co.uk ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

The interaction between her fellow prisoners is also interesting. ❋ Janine Di Giovanni (2010)

Actually, it coincides with the start of the “War on Drugs”, and the majority of the increase in prisoners are all drug-related offenses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The way we treated Gitmo prisoners is essentially the way we can expect others to treat our POWs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The torture of prisoners is not a policy option, it is a war crime ❋ Unknown (2010)

The problem we have with paroling prisoners is they do not have any job training when they get out, then what do they do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A report by the chief inspector says that poor staff-prisoner relationships undermined the "dynamic security" and a strong positive culture at the jail, which should have been focused on the resettlement of long-term prisoners. ❋ Unknown (2011)

That was one of the triumphs of the Vienna Initiative—it dealt with what is known as the prisoners' dilemma, or the problem of creating trust between agents so they act together to produce the best outcome, rather than act separately to produce the worst. ❋ Paul Hannon (2011)