After 15 days several of the prisoners were blindfolded, manacled, and asked to walk holding the person in front. |
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He told the court he had ordered the use of tear gas and rubber bullets to quell rioting prisoners but not firearms. |
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The sergeant must be present at the bar when prisoners are being processed, but he failed to leave his tea break and do this. |
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Britain in 1954 was not barbaric towards its prisoners and miscarriages of justice were hardly common. |
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Seventy per cent of prisoners are back behind bars within two years of release. |
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He spent a lot of time at the prison, while giving the prisoners art lessons for creative and therapeutic reasons. |
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Witnesses described seeing the prisoners handed to US agents whose faces were masked by hoods. |
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In the USA of course, prisoners have been disenfranchised in many states for yonks, and it is considered normal. |
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Such prisoners will probably not express contrition or remorse or sympathy for any victim. |
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By volunteering to go, prisoners would win a remission of sentence and efface the stigma of jail. |
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A third of all inmates are remand prisoners who are awaiting trial or sentencing. |
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Let us hope that prisoners who wish to observe their religious beliefs and practices will now be given the means and opportunity to do so. |
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She called on the government to speed up the process of release for hundreds of political prisoners still in jail. |
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If they fail to reach an agreement in that time period, the prisoners should be released. |
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He released the remaining political prisoners and restored democratic rule. |
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This historical prison design positioned the warder as an all-seeing eye with the prisoners in a circular arrangement around him. |
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It was not intended to rehabilitate prisoners or to deter would-be criminals. |
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Not only does the project provide support and counselling to families but also helps to rehabilitate the prisoners themselves. |
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The report details dozens of blatant civil rights abuses, many alleging inhumane treatment of prisoners at the hands of Department employees. |
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Other prisoners teach crafts and skills, benefiting from modern equipment and resources they might not otherwise get to use. |
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The prisoners were then reported to be sent to the labor camp by motor boat before the town's people awoke. |
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In theory the parole hearings take the behaviour of the offender into account and allow reformed prisoners out before unrepentant ones. |
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The prisoners worked on the site as part of the Department of Justice's section 94 day work release program. |
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This inn was visited by Russian inhabitants and French prisoners of war, who were granted freedom of movement on their word of honour. |
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In deserving cases, items such as milk, bread and egg are given to prisoners on the recommendation of medical officers. |
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He is still heavily involved in Mahi Tahi, a Trust working to reclaim Maori prisoners by linking them to their racial traditions. |
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Sometimes prisoners never seem to get free of the prison system and they become what society now refers to as recidivists. |
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Also, should prisoners who repeatedly commit crime spend a longer time behind bars simply because they're recidivists? |
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The bodies of murdered political prisoners continue to be discovered in the military bases of Uruguay and the killing fields of Central America. |
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Toilets for the female prisoners were recessed into the wall, but as you can see, offered no privacy. |
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The prisoners were made to reinforce the cellar with concrete so it could serve as an air-raid shelter. |
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The only food or water made available to the prisoners was airdropped three times a week, and there was never enough to go around. |
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More than half the prisoners who signed up for a detox programme in the country's first drug-free unit have kicked the habit. |
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Hundreds of political prisoners arrested in previous years continue to be held without trial. |
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The radical transformation that many prisoners undergo is often lost in popular accounts of the prison experience. |
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And at the war's end, when the prisoners came home, there were some amazing reunions but for most it was a bleak reality check. |
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They also agitated for free speech and assembly, the liberation of political prisoners and for the abolition of grain requisitioning. |
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But for some prisoners a good book can be the only thing keeping them sane. |
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For two centuries, his forebears had been white slaves in North Africa, captives in North America or, like him, prisoners of war in South Asia. |
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Forced labour and starvation rations ensure that prisoners are too weak to rebel. |
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While they wait for the train, the prisoners eat their meager ration of bread. |
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The vast majority of prisoners would lack the wherewithal to gather the witnesses and documents needed. |
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This follows another story last week whereby prisoners were trying to get permission to vote in elections. |
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We have also had one of the major political parties advocating franchise rights for prisoners in HM prisons. |
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He repeatedly had to ransom prisoners taken in the course of Lombard raids, who would otherwise have been sold off as slaves. |
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In return the prisoners each earned seventy-five cents in camp scrip to spend at the camp stores. |
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It shows that life for many prisoners is one of drug addiction, random violence and long periods spent locked up in their cells. |
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From the 16th century on, Turkmen raiders on horseback preyed on passing caravans, pillaging and taking prisoners for the slave trade. |
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Mug shots of prisoners in the Terrace Gaol are featured along with a caricature of Wellywood movie mogul Sir Peter Jackson. |
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Poor conditions are likely to make prisoners grow resentful towards the people who put him there. |
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Most newly released prisoners would be well advised to make use of this money to fund the postage costs incurred in seeking gainful employment. |
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The prisoners were also made to cook and wash for the militiamen, who are mostly from nomadic tribes and who travel by horse and camel. |
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The first morning they visited the jailhouse, two prisoners were behind bars. |
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In The Abduction from the Seraglio, in The Magic Flute, the prisoners will be guarded by jailers whose vigilance must be outwitted. |
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The possibility that the jailbreak was planned jointly by the prisoners and at least one of their jailers is also being investigated. |
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Nearly all the 1,300 prisoners were undoubtedly guilty of treason, for which the sentence was death by hanging, disembowelling, and quartering. |
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David Brown says the Royal Commission helped end the violence against prisoners which existed in some jails. |
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They learned to take no prisoners in fighting a skilled and fanatical enemy who gave no quarter and expected none. |
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As part of these efforts, prisoners dug sand for mortar, quarried building stone and mortar lime, and manufactured more than 1.2 million bricks. |
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Actors playing warders, who were walking with prisoners, were not allowed to walk past other warders walking with prisoners in the corridor. |
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Yet, unaccountably, once he was faced with prisons, prisoners and warders, Balfour stopped entertaining the people. |
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The abiding impression left by the book is the way the prison system reduces prisoners and screws to animals. |
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The offices in Talo Udang Bay became the headquarters of the warden and in June 1941 the first group of 500 prisoners arrived. |
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The bravery and resourcefulness of British prisoners of war will be celebrated in an exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the Great Escape. |
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The warden dismissed the accusations made by Smith and the other prisoners as lies and exaggerations. |
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It was from here, that 28,000 of the prisoners were taken, towards the end of the War, on what came to be known, as the death marches. |
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Rather than letting prisoners out early for good behaviour, it might be more sensible to keep them in longer for bad behaviour. |
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It was an amazing place which was full of sadness, and you could feel the very wairua of those prisoners who had been there once. |
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The idea is that he will be used as a makeweight in a deal to get one of their prisoners back. |
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In the smaller prisons all prisoners were surveyed, while in the three largest prisons one half of the population was randomly sampled. |
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Football's about tough uncompromising individuals, who bleed real blood, take no prisoners and fight to the very end, yeah? |
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To let that gift keep on giving, we could have a Maryland style crab bake for the prisoners at Gitmo. |
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On their orders, 83 American prisoners of war had been murdered by Waffen S.S. machine-gunners. |
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Two or three of our prisoners escaped but were caught and brought back to the camp to be machine-gunned down in front of us. |
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The Soviet forces took more than 30,000 Romanian prisoners and all their equipment. |
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Tens of thousands of pensioners are prisoners in their homes, with none of the luxuries Huntley and Bieber receive. |
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That protocol almost gives prisoners two lumps of sugar in every cup of tea they want. |
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The prisoners demanded assurances that their health had not been compromised. |
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Apparently prisoners quite often used to do a runner out of court after hearing their sentence. |
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The prison officers, though clearly asserting their authority, treated the prisoners with respect. |
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A Republican assemblyman supported the bill, citing that half of California prisoners smoke and the development will cut health care costs. |
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Poorly trained correctional officers have accidentally asphyxiated mentally ill prisoners whom they were trying to restrain. |
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It would almost certainly be possible to generate public enthusiasm for public executions and feeding prisoners on bread and water. |
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Most of the abused prisoners had no military intelligence value, Special Agent Worth said. |
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In the past, persons being held by law enforcement or the government had to be classified as suspects, arrestees, or prisoners of war. |
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According to jail sources, as many as 11 women prisoners were lodged in this jail. |
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More than 100 prisoners were placed on lockdown for the rest of the day following protest early last Monday morning. |
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Luckily the prisoners where all in lockdown at the moment so they could keep the casualties down to a minimum. |
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Administrators responded with an institution lockdown, confining all prisoners to their cells. |
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So many of our prisoners have lost members of their family to his ruthless practices. |
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Books of educative and literary value are kept in libraries for prisoners having an academic bent of mind. |
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Regulations issued by the Imperial Army spelled out procedures intended to ensure that prisoners weren't punished arbitrarily. |
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On March 18, prisoners rioted, breaking down a door and assaulting a police officer. |
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Does denying prisoners the protections of international law mock the principles the antiterror coalition is fighting to protect? |
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Towards the end of 1944 the life expectancy of prisoners was limited to an average of a few months. |
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The Americans have not executed prisoners in retaliation for assassinations. |
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More can be learned of the conditions of prisoners in New Jersey than in either Connecticut or New York. |
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The prisoners were lifted to their feet, had their ankle bindings cut and ropes tied loosely round their necks like animal leads. |
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Within the first few minutes, you'll be shimmying down zip lines, dashing past armed guards, interrogating prisoners and shooting out lights. |
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Gallagher said loyalist and republican prisoners were outraged at constant strip searches. |
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One of the prisoners bared his back after his initial arrest to reveal open welts allegedly caused by baton and rubber hoses. |
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Sabrine reports that the latest demands by ISIS militants are three prisoners for every captive soldier. |
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After the trial, amid much popular speculation over the justice of the sentences passed, authorities pardoned one of the prisoners and reprieved another. |
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This decision by the Home Secretary meant that prisoners could spend several years more in prison than was justified by the tariff for the crime they had committed. |
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As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey. |
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The government is to discuss a general amnesty for prisoners convicted of crimes that might be politically motivated, a senior official said yesterday. |
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From freeing prisoners to shortening school weeks, Benjamin Sarlin presents 10 of the toughest cuts. |
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Ameca Reali and Adrienne Wheeler held up letters from Louisiana prisoners scribbled on brown paper towels. |
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For example, he authorized conjugal visits for prisoners for the first time in the state and broadened environmental protection. |
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How many times were the names of political prisoners such as Majid Tavakoli or Shiva Ahari raised? |
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We took no prisoners and hard things were said on both sides. |
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The three basic ways for prisoners to die are old age, disease or violently. |
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The officer says the guards kept constant watch for clues among the prisoners for coalescing groups and ascending leaders. |
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He was a mighty, and very aggressive warrior who took no prisoners in war. |
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Harper took no prisoners in his Progressive Conservative takeover. |
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Nonetheless, usage often views these terms as interchangeable, so that persons not yet tried are pardoned and prisoners serving sentences are granted an amnesty. |
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It has an enormous dose of estrogen in it, leading to many voluptuous prisoners in New York state prisons. |
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Wardens and guards with names like interrogator Wu and Officer Gong deprived the prisoners they hated of meat. |
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That language suggests that, if the prisoners had alleged different facts, they might have been entitled to a writ of habeas corpus from a civilian court. |
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Fellow Kurdish prisoners of conscience in other cities across Iran have followed suit. |
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Proctor had no sooner entered the cell when the two prisoners jumped him. |
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But increasingly we prisoners of war sensed, from our captors' demeanor and reading between the lines of propaganda broadcasts, a sinister force surfacing. |
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After Vukovar fell in the winter of 1991, Serb forces killed 260 prisoners and buried them in a mass grave. |
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You might expect prisoners to have to pay extra for items like habanero squeeze cheese, for example, but what about pen and paper? |
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He thought on his feet, a very bright individual as far as prisoners go. |
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The al Qaeda prisoners we held at CIA facilities helped us understand the adversary. |
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It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders. |
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In time, we are prisoners of the present forever prevented from accessing our past, or our future. |
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He did not see active service during the war, but drove ambulances for the American Field Service and at war's end worked in Calcutta to repatriate prisoners of war. |
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Some of the prisoners did find time to make musical instruments such as violins from the dismantled hulls of sunken boats and hard wood salvaged from collapsed buildings. |
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It was common knowledge that the Maquis had waged an attack on German guards that very morning and had freed as many as three hundred American prisoners of war. |
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It is a huge problem because prisoners who are taking drugs do not take part in the various programmes available to them in the jail and are losing out on that chance. |
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Dracula was a great moment for Keanu, in my view, and I will take no prisoners on that. |
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My call will not be very long, but I do point out to this House that the number of incidents of female prison officers getting involved with prisoners is in the ascendant. |
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The unit houses 16 prisoners whose security status has been reclassified as the lowest and who are allowed out to work in the community to prepare them for release. |
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It was also noted that none of the prisoners had any private law right which he could have pursued, since remission of sentence was not a right but an indulgence. |
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Three prisoners had to be treated for smoke inhalation after an absent-minded prison van driver left the handbrake on while he was taking them to court yesterday. |
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As the prison system is rationalized and restructured through each of these individual decisions, it's clear that the prisoners themselves are just pawns. |
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After that riot had been put down, prisoners were locked into yards. |
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In 2008, he was arrested for reporting about the abuse of prisoners in Syrian jails. |
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Nude prisoners were kept in a central area, and walked around as a form of humiliation. |
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In addition to sparing their lives, Kruger offered the prisoners better food and other privileges for their hard work. |
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In September 1886, Massai was among the prisoners on an army train hauling the last of Geronimo's followers away to the living death of a prison camp in Florida. |
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For-profit prison companies are paid a per-diem rate for room and board, as are the states when they import and house prisoners for the federal government or other states. |
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To begin with, prisoners are among the least lucrative of clients, and certainly the least sympathetic to juries, so that few lawyers are willing to litigate on their behalf. |
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No mention, for instance, of the people of Ireland having voted overwhelmingly for the agreement, which stated categorically that prisoners would be released. |
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The deal with the Iranian government will give them a free hand to repress activists and keep political prisoners behind bars. |
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In one town, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like prisoners of war after burning their Franciscan school. |
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As other prisoners took advantage of the rehabilitation programs offered, Lane and Opperud secretly planned an escape. |
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Peace keepers who served in East Timor yarned with former prisoners of war, as Australian service men and women shared their experiences over a beer. |
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The majority of prisoners are crooks, thugs, murderers and rapists, who took the lives of people and did irreparable damage to women and young girls. |
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Casualties totaled 77,000 men, which included 8,000 killed in action, 48,000 wounded in action, and 21,000 as prisoners of war or missing in action. |
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The result, says MacDonald, was that the prisoners ran rings round them. |
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Moreover, the most vulnerable prisoners are often specifically and disproportionally targeted. |
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The combination of impulsive sensation-seeking and aggression was also related to antisocial personality disorder among male prisoners and to level of cocaine abuse. |
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Four of the prisoners came down of their own accord on Tuesday night, followed shortly afterwards by two men brought down in a crane by negotiators. |
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The Sunnis execute prisoners en masse, their messages expressed in high body counts. |
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It's about a guy who gives lethal injections to prisoners on death row. |
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Amendments made to the Geneva Conventions in 1977 specified that prisoners taken in internal and civil conflicts must still be considered prisoners of war. |
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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. |
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Within minutes the back doors of the prison van burst open and the three prisoners escaped with the gunmen, one of whom was dressed in a Royal Mail uniform. |
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I was held in a cell with 20 other prisoners with no room to manoeuvre. |
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During the Cold War, the West Germans used to pay the East Germans to release political prisoners and allow them to emigrate. |
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Writing about the experience, humorously, left him a favorite amongst both prisoners and their guards, an odd situation. |
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He was one of 10 convicted prisoners who escaped from the prison on June 8 after holding up prison warders at gunpoint and locking them in a cell. |
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Category A prisoners or lifers at Horfield Prison in Bristol are only allowed one two-hour visit each fortnight and so far she has been the only person to see him in jail. |
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Africans played a direct role in the slave trade, selling their captives or prisoners of war to European buyers. |
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It was, above all, to the alcaide and the guards of the prisoners that he studied to recommend himself. |
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Two days out of every three, the prisoners were guarded by a gang of ignorant and cruelsome Negroes. |
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The prisoners watched me from inside their cells, watched dead-eyed and silent as I was dragged past. |
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There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes. |
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There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye. |
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Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls. |
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Radagaisus was defeated and executed and 12,000 of the prisoners were drafted into Stilicho's service. |
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His ruthlessness was demonstrated by his massacre of 2,600 prisoners in Acre. |
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On 27 July, John's German allies lost the Battle of Bouvines, with many prisoners taken, including the Earl of Salisbury. |
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Philip, before leaving, had entrusted his prisoners to Conrad, but Richard forced him to hand them over to him. |
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Richard feared his forces being bottled up in Acre as he believed his campaign could not advance with the prisoners in train. |
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This siege cast an even darker shadow on the reputation of the king than his order to slay the French prisoners at Agincourt. |
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The train moved on again, keeping us prisoners in a stench-filled car, starving, suffocating, insensated. |
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In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away. |
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Many of the Scottish prisoners of war taken in the campaigns died of disease, and others were sent as indentured labourers to the colonies. |
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As many as 40,000 accused prisoners may have been summarily executed without trial or died awaiting trial. |
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For supper, Coloured and Indian prisoners received a quarter loaf of bread and a slab of margarine. |
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Suffragettes were refused the right to be recognised as political prisoners and many of them staged hunger strikes while they were imprisoned. |
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Both the Germans and Japanese tested such weapons against civilians and, sometimes on prisoners of war. |
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This immediately affected the Soviet prisoners of war liberated by the Allies, but was also extended to all Eastern European refugees. |
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The rate of 118 is for sentenced prisoners in 2015 in Ministry of Justice prisons only. |
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Assaults by prisoners on staff are rising with just under 700 causing serious injury. |
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Michael Gove scaled back policies of being tough on prisoners but did not increase funding. |
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Mobile phones are smuggled into prisons and prisoners use them to plot crimes. |
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Low pay and lack of training dealing with prisoners are factors that can make a prison officer become corrupt. |
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Prison cells have been vandalised and prisoners have access to drugs and mobile phones, some delivered by drones. |
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This encouraged the British Royal Family to take an interest and a trial of variolation was carried out on prisoners in Newgate Prison. |
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In addition, between March 1946 and August 1947, Stansted was used for housing German prisoners of war. |
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The prisoners destroyed much of the cathedral woodwork for firewood but Prior Castell's Clock, which featured the Scottish thistle, was spared. |
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One of Mortimer's first acts on entering England was to capture the Tower and release the prisoners held there. |
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During the Second World War, the Tower was once again used to hold prisoners of war. |
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Warwick Castle withstood the siege and was later used to hold prisoners taken by the Parliamentarians. |
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The new castle was used to hold French prisoners taken in at Poitiers in 1357, including John II, who was held for a considerable ransom. |
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Seven of the prisoners were taken from the Tower to the Star Chamber by barge. |
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Some of the prisoners were reportedly despondent, but others were nonchalant, even smoking tobacco. |
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Confessions and declarations from the prisoners were then read aloud, and finally the prisoners were allowed to speak. |
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Following the Ridolfi plot of 1571 prisoners were made to dictate their confessions, before copying and signing them, if they still could. |
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When the prisoners were allowed to speak, Fawkes explained his not guilty plea as ignorance of certain aspects of the indictment. |
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Her captain, Henry Bostock, and crew, remained Teach's prisoners for about eight hours, and were forced to watch as their sloop was ransacked. |
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The mob attacked the prison gates with shovels and pickaxes, set the building ablaze, and released the prisoners inside. |
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The slaughter or capture of prisoners of war also appears to have been condemned by Ashoka. |
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There were about thirty casualties on each side, and the British took 600 French prisoners whom were subsequently sent to England. |
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Authorities in Boston offered these men their freedom, but all 70 elected to be treated as prisoners of war. |
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Officers and men of the units in the French service made for Inverness, where they surrendered as prisoners of war on 19 April. |
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The common prisoners drew lots amongst themselves and only one out of twenty actually came to trial. |
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Another 382 obtained their freedom by being exchanged for prisoners of war who were held by France. |
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The prisoners and captives who were sold were usually from neighbouring or enemy ethnic groups. |
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In nearly four weeks of fighting beginning 8 August, over 100,000 German prisoners were taken. |
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Throughout the war civilians or prisoners were used as human guinea pigs in testing Luftwaffe equipment. |
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In early 1942, prisoners at Dachau were used by Rascher in experiments to perfect ejection seats at high altitudes. |
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The Axis forces surrendered on 13 May 1943 yielding over 275,000 prisoners of war. |
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In 2011 she said that the Act was overused, and criticised the decision of European human rights judges to give prisoners the vote. |
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On 13 June, Taliban fighters demonstrated their ongoing strength, liberating all prisoners in Kandahar jail. |
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Piestewa died of wounds shortly after capture, while the remaining five prisoners of war were later rescued. |
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Five live prisoners of war were also interviewed on the air, a violation of the Third Geneva Convention. |
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In response, American forces reinforced security procedures for dealing with prisoners of war. |
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The causeways were constructed by Italian prisoners of war, who also constructed the ornate Italian Chapel. |
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Political status for prisoners became an issue after the ending of the truce. |
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No reference was made to whether prisoners were on board the aircraft at the time. |
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The quartet was first performed in January 1941 to an audience of prisoners and prison guards. |
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Republican prisoners had refused to wear prison uniforms, claiming that they were political prisoners. |
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The republican prisoners refused, and instead smeared the excrement on the wall of their cells. |
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No political reforms were announced as part of the package, though some prisoners indicted for financial crimes were pardoned. |
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Ottoman losses are unknown but the British captured a total of 45,000 prisoners of war. |
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On 27 April the Scots were overwhelmed at the Battle of Dunbar, with John being among the many prisoners taken. |
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The Dauphin's forces retreated to the Loire, leaving many prisoners behind and over 6,000 dead. |
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Even in this state, Knox recalled, his mind remained sharp and he comforted his fellow prisoners with hopes of release. |
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The majority of the latter died while prisoners of war of the British, mostly in the prison ships in New York Harbor. |
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In nearly four weeks of fighting beginning on 8 August, over 100,000 German prisoners were taken. |
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This convention was also the legal basis for the ICRC's work for prisoners of war. |
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The practice of enslaving prisoners may also have been taken from the Mongols. |
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Their charge had resulted in heavy losses, but yielded 78 prisoners and three machine guns. |
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The 115th Brigade crossed the river and cleared several German positions facing them, took at least 30 prisoners and captured 15 machine guns. |
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Divisional casualties amounted to around 800, and at least 100 prisoners were taken along with the capture of 15 machine guns. |
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Until 2017 there was no provision for convicts in northern Wales, with prisoners sent to prisons in Liverpool and further afield. |
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This prompted Prince Rupert to respond by executing Parliamentarian prisoners in Oswestry. |
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Ruthin Gaol ceased to be a prison in 1916 when the prisoners and guards were transferred to Shrewsbury. |
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In 1802 the prison had four cells for prisoners and nine rooms for debtors. |
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There he learnt Swahili and Italian, and made friendships with some of the Italian prisoners which he would maintain in after years. |
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The ranks of political prisoners swelled into the thousands, and beatings, torture, and official murder became the order of the day. |
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There were 336 prisoners of war taken, of which 224 Germans were rescued by Commodore Keyes on the destroyer Lurcher and brought to England. |
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Although the fort ceased to be a military site in 1906, during World War I it held some 300 German and Austrian prisoners of war. |
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By 17 May, Rommel claimed to have taken 10,000 prisoners and suffered only 36 losses. |
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An estimated 40,000 were prisoners of war, 100,000 racial deportees, 60,000 political prisoners and 40,000 died as slave labourers. |
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The 99 prisoners were marched to farm buildings nearby and lined up along a barn wall. |
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The majority of these prisoners were sent on forced marches into Germany to towns such as Trier, the march taking as long as twenty days. |
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Many of the prisoners were marched to the city of Trier, with the march taking as long as 20 days. |
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In 1942, the SS built a network of extermination camps to systematically kill millions of prisoners by gassing. |
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The prisoners were confined in the boxcars for days or even weeks, with little or no food or water. |
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Conditions were brutal and prisoners were often sent to the gas chambers or killed on site if they did not work quickly enough. |
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Sixty thousand of the 850,000 in Rundstedt's command were raised from the many prisoners of war taken on the Eastern Front. |
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After the end of the war, the ICRC organized the return of about 420,000 prisoners to their home countries. |
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Millions of individuals were forcibly transported to the Americas as slaves, prisoners or indentured servants. |
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In the late 18th century, the first prisoners were sent to Fernando de Noronha. |
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The English became familiar with captivity narratives written by Barbary pirates' prisoners and ransomed captives, as so many people were taken. |
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The Confederacy was outraged by armed black soldiers and refused to treat them as prisoners of war. |
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The lesser prisoners taken at Tinchebray were released, but Robert and several other leading nobles were imprisoned indefinitely. |
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A number of the British civilians and prisoners of war were locked in the small guard room in what became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta. |
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In May 2006 up to 60 prisoners at Albany Prison issued writs demanding compensation from the Home Office. |
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When a list of 35 prisoners issued with whole life tariffs was made public by the Home Office in December 2006, Sutcliffe was not on the list. |
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Across the three sites there were nearly 1,700 prisoners making it one of the largest prisons in the country. |
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Elsewhere he identifies the settlers as 40,000 prisoners of war, only a fraction of the yearly draft of militia. |
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The same source also says that Emperor Probus, who ruled between 276 and 282, settled Gepid prisoners of wars in the Roman Empire in the Balkans. |
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There were also slaves of Tatar ethnicity, probably prisoners captured from the wars with the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. |
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Where the Romans did take prisoners of war, hostages could also be given or exchanged in times of peace. |
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Polo related his memoirs orally to Rustichello da Pisa while both were prisoners of the Genova Republic. |
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In 1940, the NKVD executed more than 6,200 Polish policemen and prisoners of war from Ostashkov camp. |
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Several prisoners detained in 2012 complained of sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures, and solitary confinement. |
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Cuba and the US agreed to release political prisoners and the United States began the process of creating an embassy in Havana. |
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Prior to each papal visit, the Cuban government pardoned prisoners as a humanitarian gesture. |
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On 6 December 1522, Portuguese prisoners were exposed to the public in pillories in Guangzhou. |
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The Dutch next attacked Pampanga, where they captured the fortified monastery, taking prisoners and executing almost 200 Filipino defenders. |
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Generally only high status prisoners of war were sacrificed, with lower status captives being used for labour. |
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The war galleys were mostly manned by prisoners of war or convicts, who were chained to benches, usually three to six per oar. |
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On more than one occasion men were seen hanging their own brothers, who had been taken prisoners in the enemy rank. |
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As part of Operation Keelhaul, the British returned Cossack prisoners of war to Russia. |
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Despite the generous supply and quality of food, some prisoners died of starvation after gambling away their rations. |
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North Korean and North and South Vietnamese forces routinely killed or mistreated prisoners taken during those conflicts. |
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Over half the Russian losses were prisoners as a proportion of those captured, wounded or killed. |
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The first British prisoners were released and reached Calais on 15 November. |
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On 13 December 1918, the armistice was extended and the Allies reported that by 9 December 264,000 prisoners had been repatriated. |
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This created difficulties for the receiving Allies and many released prisoners died from exhaustion. |
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After 20 March 1943, the Imperial Navy was under orders to execute all prisoners taken at sea. |
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Escapes among Caucasian prisoners were almost impossible because of the difficulty of men of Caucasian descent hiding in Asiatic societies. |
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After the French armies surrendered in summer 1940, Germany seized two million French prisoners of war and sent them to camps in Germany. |
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As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. |
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Out of the 230,000 Polish prisoners of war taken by the Soviet army, only 82,000 survived. |
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The French are so violating the Geneva Convention in the treatment of prisoners of war that our command is taking back prisoners sent to them. |
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In some instances, Japanese prisoners were tortured by a variety of methods. |
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The United States handed over 740,000 German prisoners to France, a signatory of the Geneva Convention. |
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Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture. |
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Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated. |
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Under the so-called strategic release programme, the Post said, American officials had been able ton use prisoners as bargaining chips. |
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