The fugitives did not hear the sliding bolt, did not know they were prisoners. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital went about its business without involving the prisoner in the elegant drawing room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not say when she meant-to return, only that she had taken the Imp as prisoner. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I realize now,” one prisoner said after the experiment was over, “that no matter how together I thought I was inside my head, my prisoner behavior was often less under my control than I realized.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was normal to beat prisoners,” he said, explaining that his instructors taught him never to smile and to think of inmates as “dogs and pigs.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Everyone was forced to watch when a prisoner was beaten, whipped, shot, hanged, or torn apart by the dogs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after he first arrived, he was attacked by another prisoner, who stabbed him nine times. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She sat there and enjoyed the smell and the dark greenness of it.Oh, the mystery of a great tree, a prisoner in a tin wash bucket in a tenement front room! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave him the jobs of cleaning the camps, of handing out the slops to the prisoners, of filling the water buckets. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For George Blake and his fellow prisoners, now being moved from location to location by their captors, all of North Korea had become a scorched war zone. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In return for his money, he received many privileges: he wore clothes meant for white prisoners, ate their diet, and did no jail work at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

André refused, for he was well aware that if he disguised himself, he could be hanged as a spy; if he was captured in uniform, he would live as a prisoner of war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like any prisoners, these kids fought with anything sharp they could find. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they were no longer prisoners, their betrayal of the other Nazi saboteurs would stain their freedom. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how the boy could run that far and that fast carrying fifty pounds of clock and bronze, but the prisoner nearly got away. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My men are searching the hills for an escaped prisoner. I don’t suppose you’re going to tell me where they should look for the two bodies?" Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But there were other prisoners too, I soon learned, all of whom wore different colored triangles. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Sister," she called out from where she stood below the thrones, "I beg you to remember, this man is my prisoner. I will not have him harmed." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The black prisoner, he said, symbolized white society’s crime of keeping black men oppressed and deprived and ignorant, and unable to get decent jobs, turning them into criminals. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not till Julio there jumped on the prisoner. They were just walking along the river path, towards town. Some boys swimming told us which way they went.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We might get taken prisoner by the Reds." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The only life these prisoners know is the sounds and shadows of the cave. Imagine living like that!” he says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And when the fighting happened...when we were retreating...I...I ran....Three of the Hessians caught me...made me prisoner....Only”—he fumbled for words—“I...escaped.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I did tell Lilian that I thought she should discuss the issue with the women themselves before making a decision, and escorted her down to the cells where she could poll the prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We traveled by cattle car again, and again prisoners died of starvation and suffocation along the way. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment she arrived at the District Jail, Alice Paul asked for political prisoner status. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He and the other prisoners arrived late at night. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

How long had Capricorn kept him prisoner in this bare little room? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As a condition to real negotiations, I said, the government must immediately end the State of Emergency and free all political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone told camp authorities what the boys were doing— probably a prisoner who got extra bread for informing on them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The great humiliation of feeling that I am a prisoner is killing me far more than any other discomforts I have to endure,” he wrote—though in fact he felt no humiliation whatsoever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t point that thing at me. I’m here on Evelyn’s orders. I’m going to see a prisoner.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The kapos took as much of the food as they could for themselves, but a little still made it into the hands and mouths of the prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After their island sanctuary burned, they were taken prisoner aboard the pirates’ ship. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One day, we were walking back from work along a road and passed a workspan of several hundred prisoners carting sand in wheelbarrows. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't mind, but my father would consider my revelation the most extreme treason . . . You're free of him now. I'm still his prisoner. You have been freed, don't you understand? I've still my battle." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, Chief Buthelezi had consistently called for my release and refused to negotiate with the government until I and other political prisoners were liberated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One moment, Sir Gawaine. I have to point out that the Church does not regard these people as prisoners. The mission of His Holiness which I represent is one of pacification, not of revenge.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gates were opened, and a ragged bunch of prisoners were marched back inside, all beaten and bloodied. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been lying on the couch watching a fish tank in the corner, its one golden prisoner swimming in lazy circles. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Meetings were banned; printing presses were seized; and legislation was rushed through Parliament permitting the police to detain charged prisoners for twelve days without bail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so many prisoners working so close together, the factory was a petri dish for snitching. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Oliver had lived to see the prisoners released and the exiles return, but he had not lived to cast his vote in a free and democratic South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers were more valuable to political prisoners than gold or diamonds, more hungered for than food or tobacco; they were the most precious contraband on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another prisoner was brought in and they talked excitedly, but softly, because the room had once again grown quiet. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tom said with vast delight, ticking them off, “Lawrence, we got prisoners from the Fifteenth Alabama, the Forty- seventh Alabama, the Fourth and Fifth Texas. Man, we fought four Reb regiments!” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched the prisoners being marched away I knew there was nothing we had in common. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I felt like a prisoner being pushed off a plank by pirates. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re the commanding officer, sir, then I present you with these here prisoners.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Designated prisoners from F and G would pick up the matchboxes on their walks, and we retrieved messages in the same fashion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer a prisoner in the attic, she felt better able to enjoy the fine weather. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Sam and Bill told me, a few Japanese prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards were instantly on the prisoner, beating him until he was unconscious. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pizarro proceeded to hold his prisoner for eight months, while extracting history’s largest ransom in return for a promise to free him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The police were clever enough to detain a prisoner long enough for the wounds and bruises to heal, and often it was simply the word of a policeman against our client. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I never told. Maybe I was ashamed. I was a prisoner, Charles. I broke jail—I escaped.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For those few seconds I was not a prisoner in a Nazi ghetto, trapped behind high walls, but a twelve-year-old boy like any other, relishing the mix of danger and excitement. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Why did they kill the soldiers? They were wounded. They couldn’t fight! Weren’t they supposed to be prisoners of war or something?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Later he was to realize that all that then happened was merely a preliminary, a routine interrogation to which nearly all prisoners were subjected. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Not once during this interview, now almost three hours old, had either of them mentioned murder—an omission that kept the prisoner edgy, expectant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t ask him and risk giving anything away to the listening prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It listed as job duties the usual supervision and custodial work, but there was also a line about helping to counsel and reform the prisoner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes,” said Snape as the prisoner turned slowly away again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pong turned toward the guards who were leaning against the wall behind him, looking almost as bored with life in Namwon as the prisoners were. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“So, soon, there will be a prisoner for me?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“We lost a lot of folks though. Seems they executed a number of prisoners and sold the rest into slavery.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the prisoners are boys or middle-aged men, the shattered remains of companies. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I will be a good little prisoner, I will, I will.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After playing for an hour, we began to hear the cries of a desperate prisoner, pleading, “God, help me. God, help me.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In 1998, Walter and I were asked to go to Chicago to attend a national conference where exonerated former death row prisoners were planning to gather. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Heard the news this morning, Marge? What about that escaped prisoner, eh?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The lobby was also still full of trash—as if nothing had happened since the night when the children took Victor prisoner. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked strangely like the trial of a prisoner. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Nazis did nothing to treat him, or any of the other prisoners who got the camp fever. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the storm he had set up a makeshift office in Baton Rouge and was already working with prisoners brought to the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She could not stomach the idea of her husband being called a prisoner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Inside the overcrowded barracks, starving prisoners lay crammed together on the platforms, their eyes glazed over, their emaciated bodies barely able to move. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Eight prisoners pardoned yesterday at the National Palace.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun's door closed, and the guards assembled themselves at the next cell, ready for the next prisoner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was also a newcomer, an educated prisoner from Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My mother told me that the relatives of black prisoners were seldom notified about the whereabouts of their loved ones. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prisoner doctor looked at him and confirmed that he had dysentery. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

That's what the guards say when they escort a prisoner to the low redbrick execution chamber in the courtyard, where the guillotine waits. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was the kapo, the prisoner in charge of the hundred men in this barracks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

More and more prisoners were forced into the car. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the main campers took the vehicles and went ahead with the two school prisoners and the body of Minerva. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Our prisoner has not yet elaborated on her own role as a wireless operator at the aerodrome at Maidsend.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Some of the prisoners underwent the examination in groups of twelve; they merely recited a sort of confessional and catechism, got their anti-kemmer shot, and were released to work. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Camp conditions were so terrible that prisoners were given one cup of soup a day, and this was really only flavored water. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How could this be mine? I am not an artist! I am nothing! I’m a penniless merchant, a prisoner! A shell! A windup toy!” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

That month, I had another homecoming: I returned to Robben Island in order to persuade twenty-five MK political prisoners to accept the government’s offer of amnesty and leave the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the prisoners would stand up tall, straighten their backs, and turn their heads in the direction of the women’s cells, and Andres would smile. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had recently been taken to the dentist in Cape Town and discovered that the dentist himself was related by marriage to a well-known political prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told the prisoner to inform the registrar that he had limited funds and would like the record at no charge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many prisoners, including some in his barracks, became delirious and died. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girls twined around her; their long arms held her prisoner. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were older, hard-time prisoners close to parole, and their detail was to come and clean the cells and circulate books and magazines for you to read. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As I raise my eyes to his, I think of looking at him in just this way, when I was still a prisoner in Erudite headquarters. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The rest of us were locked up in cells in Pretoria Local away from all the other prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although our work at the quarry was meant to show us that we were no different from the other prisoners, the authorities still treated us like the lepers who once populated the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several other prisoners joined in, and with great effort, they finally broke the hinges. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis called the new camp B III, but we prisoners called it Mexico. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I insisted that all African prisoners must have long trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, all of the prisoners were herded together, moving slowly down a path that was becoming increasingly wider and more well traveled. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three guards kept their guns trained on the prisoners while the fourth set off on foot back down the road—to find a telephone, I think. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The last man marched through the doors was the prisoner Reek, whose stench preceded him, ripe and pun-gent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Vervain in his time had encountered any number of prisoners who, before they died, had cursed or threatened him, not uncommonly with supernatural vengeance, much as Bigwig had cursed Woundwort in the storm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to believe that, because plenty of prisoners spit at us as traitors. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I am authorized by my companions to say that we wish to be treated as political prisoners.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You never saw grass in a concentration camp, because the prisoners ate it,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Guards with their vicious German shepherds stood over the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being a prisoner, giving evidence. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Check out these prisoners and this cool ship I brought you! The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And we stood at the center, so it seemed; black men, blackened cart; white, smudged prisoner and officer; viewing the world turned to fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why I had the girl brought here, Dustfinger?” called Capricorn up to his prisoner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he skedaddled down the hall, not wanting to be caught talking to the condemned prisoner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

President Roosevelt had decided to take Americans as prisoners of war as well as Germans, Italians, and Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After Zeitoun and Nasser prayed, they and the rest of the prisoners spent the morning shielding their eyes and mouths with their shirts, coughing through the poison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then one day in late March, with only a few hours’ warning, prisoners were informed the camp would be evacuated and prisoners taken to another camp. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three other prisoners were seated in chairs at the back of the room. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t know the name of the prisoner who dies in the middle of the night. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Blackmon notes: “The apparent demise...of leasing prisoners seemed a harbinger of a new day. But the harsher reality of the South was that the new post-Civil War neoslavery was evolving—not disappearing.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Angola prisoners completed the network of outdoor jails in two days, sleeping at night next door to the Greyhound station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Their bullet-riddled bodies were dumped in the middle of the parade ground, and the prisoners had to march around them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Had any others been taken prisoner, or had they all been killed? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Neville’s original suggestion eventually turned into a prisoners’ committee composed of people from all political parties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But which of the missing prisoners were dying back in the barracks, and which of them were running free in the woods? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am the Queen’s prisoner, to live or die, sent by Sir Lancelot” “Whose you?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing grave, no news of battle or a prisoner exchange.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only men and women with guns, hundreds of boxes of water and other supplies stacked in the hallways, and Zeitoun and his fellow prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The ability to communicate with other prisoners through the cement walls was the only thing that kept him sane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had been a prisoner at Hunt but then some other agency wanted him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Every day new prisoners arrived and others were led away. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly made my way to Marshall Square to visit the prisoners and arrange bail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out here the prisoners see the shells smash into the city before they hear them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Eventually the committee became known as Ulundi, and acted as a disciplinary committee for all political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bears in the zoo were fed better than the prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the other prisoners Zeitoun learned that these searches were common. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was a well-fed man wearing the brown coat trimmed with white that signified he was a prisoner of war. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although roll call was held each morning, the daily death toll from typhus and starvation was quickly reducing the prisoner population. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still the prisoners stood, the sun beating down on them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself up into the wagon, his movements jerky and awkward, and began unlocking the prisoners’ collars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But late at night, I heard them murmuring of how the rebels freed Scholar prisoners while striking out at the Martials. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For if you win you remain his prisoner, and princes should avoid being left at the discretion of others as much as possible. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

And, with that, he shuffled to the edge of the pit and leered down at his helpless prisoners. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he told her in hideous detail what would be done to her if she was a prisoner who refused to give answers when the Gestapo questioned her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were members of the island’s notorious criminal gangs, either the Big Fives or the Twenty-Eights, which terrorized other prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Arryns kept the only dungeon in the realm where the prisoners were welcome to escape at will. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“A German prisoner,” reported Pash, “confirmed the fact that we had captured the Nazi uranium ‘machine’ as the Germans called it-—actually an atomic pile.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to keep track of the number of prisoners, but it was almost impossible. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my prisoner. Name’s Dexter; wanted for murder.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although our food was not yet equalized, African prisoners would occasionally receive bread in the morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer, the temperatures inside rose as high as 115 degrees, which is why prisoners would later call Leavenworth the Hot House. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The prisoners’ faces are menacing—you can’t take your eyes off them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the annoying caveat was that any A Group prisoner found sharing his newspaper with a non-A Group prisoner would lose his newspaper privileges. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to get to the railway station, soldiers sometimes put the prisoners on trams or trucks. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the men did so and even though they were D Group prisoners, permission was granted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that point on, I demanded a signed and written statement from a prisoner before I agreed to take up his case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, an order came from Pretoria that I was to be isolated from all other prisoners at the quarry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard from another prisoner that Winnie had recently been charged with violating her bans, which could lead to imprisonment or house arrest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spear formed the Company, Rice took over the prisoners. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were all inside the hut, staying warm, I figured, although I didn’t think they would be doing much sleeping. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wake of the Soweto uprising, the authorities had decided that the island would become the exclusive home of South Africa’s “security prisoners.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We left the prisoners by the side of the road a day in. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“The general prisoners carry the ‘suitcases’ of their warders, but we won’t carry yours — so we call you Suitcase.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stumbled forward with our cart, our prisoner, our dying friend in arms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘I may have to report that. The prisoners are not to be searched or plundered: those are my orders.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They accused the ANC of retreating from the Harare Declaration demand for an unconditional, blanket amnesty covering political prisoners and exiles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny tagged the marching soldiers, but it was not until they turned into the Province House that he saw the three prisoners. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a complicated logistics system, infected prisoners were sent to Moscow from as far away as Siberia—with stops, it could be a month-long journey—and there was no way to maintain treatment en route. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

‘He would not wish us to linger. We must follow the Orcs, if there is hope that any of our Company are living prisoners.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Because of the time lag in communications, the general prisoners probably did not learn of our participation for a day or so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis promised them it would all be returned to them in due time, and the new prisoners believed them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He slumps over the ropes propping him up, and his torso slides down the stake, and every now and then Volkheimer comes out of the shadows, looming fantastically huge, and the prisoner straightens again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most often though, An said, prisoners were beaten, sometimes to death, simply because guards were bored or in a sour mood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were not going to observe what they considered the legal niceties that protected terrorists or permitted convicted prisoners certain rights in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kapos in the different barracks had special privileges and could steal food before it reached the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors spread that the soldiers made Pa a prisoner on a faraway mountain and tortured him every day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first night they woke up the prisoners at two in the morning and made them do pushups, line up against the wall, and perform other arbitrary tasks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter had given to other death row prisoners his fan, a dictionary, and the food items he had in his cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She’s a prisoner in this house, and the servants supply her with all the booze she can handle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a curious statement, but Tom Hannah brushed it off and let Yurchenko walk out; though he was under the care of the CIA, the KGB defector was not a prisoner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Geneva Convention you’re allowed to send useful things to prisoners of war—cigarettes, toothbrushes, fruitcakes with hacksaws inside. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Each non-Jewish prisoner had a colored triangle by his number to denote his “crime.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took all the guards' shots, and the prisoners', but Dr. Sokel, the head of the prison hospital, took Miss Kentucky's. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The Court cannot listen to a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner’s counsel has already consumed three hours in presenting.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were formed in ranks, with Russian soldiers guarding us—Englishmen, Americans, Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians, thousands of us about to stop being prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still thought it was quite ridiculous to look after a prisoner's pets. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Kaz looked up, he saw guards stationed all along the roof of the courtyard, rifles aimed down at the prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’m a prisoner on this island, Gustavo, and I cannot sleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up and was about to grab the kapo to try and stop him, but another prisoner took me by the arm. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The informer, Floyd Wells, might easily have invented his story; such tale-telling was not infrequently undertaken by prisoners who hoped to win favor or attract official notice. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who lived in Murphy Homes felt like prisoners, kept in check by roving bands of gun-strapped kids and a nightmare army of drug fiends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Only later did we learn that Fourie was reputed to have molested prisoners in the general section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes me a moment to turn my attention to the other prisoner we pulled from the house, a young man who’s probably Day’s brother or cousin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We heard from some of our men that the most senior PAC prisoners had expressed regret that we had not been hanged. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he was the gaoler, not the prisoner, big, with a strap in his hand, and he was hitting his father, driving him back, toward the abyss ... A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“On Dragon-stone he would gamble with the torturers and lend them a hand in the questioning of prisoners, especially if the prisoner were a young woman.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Washington’s troops chased the British from the battlefield, killed a passel of them, and took a couple of hundred prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after we started working at the quarry, we were joined in Section B by a number of other prominent political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher allowed his prisoners an equal share of the food, a custom dating to his earliest days in the job. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He would take him prisoner and bring him back alive to Cluny. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I asked Mr. Botha to release unconditionally all political prisoners, including myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We asked her about being arrested and being a political prisoner and a freedom fighter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘My father says Tonsil Ticklers were invented for dangerous prisoners in jail,’ he said. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned to look at the silent prisoners. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Before leaving the headquarters she released the prisoners from the stocks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The prisoner’s dilemma owes its name to a scenario, formally identical to the one above, wherein two men suspected of a major crime are apprehended in the course of committing some minor offense. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it took a few weeks before the interim civilian government announced that it would release all prisoners of conscience, and weeks more for our lawyers to get Jaja on the list. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he was told no, the prisoner seemed disappointed, as though he thought the protocol surrounding this ritual of vengeance was not being properly observed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning, the dead were carried out, and by night new prisoners were in their places on the platforms. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You must get some important prisoners from time to time?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day during the investigation, White came across guards pummeling a pair of prisoners. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Taking her knife, she pushes it into the prisoner’s stomach. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s supposed to be tied up! He’s our prisoner.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Then, Mr. Pip, one of those two prisoners sat behind you tonight. I saw him over your shoulder.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every six months, prisoners were called before the prison board to have their classifications evaluated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were marched past an SS doctor who quickly assessed them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Intoxicated by what he heard from the prisoner he was supposed to betray, Shin made perhaps the first free decision of his life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They reminded me fleetingly of prisoners carrying their leg irons as they escaped from a chain gang. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a German prisoner, the radio broadcasts to the German troops at the front warned, “Attention, attention, the ladies are in the air, stay at your shelter.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Lyra and Will each awoke with a heavy dread: it was like being a condemned prisoner on the morning fixed for the execution. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

All three knew about the research Nazis had done on Jewish prisoners. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then the two of them finished their drinks, taking their time, and gathered their coats before going out to deal with their abject prisoner. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the night they had built a stone wall, had set out pickets, had taken prisoners. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they lose, you are destroyed; if they win, you end up their prisoner. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So we have to unlock, unchain, and incapacitate six prisoners, take their places, and somehow get the wagon sealed tight again without the guards or the other prisoners being the wiser?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The holding cells for prisoners were in the basement of the courthouse, and after meeting with Walter, I made my way upstairs to get ready for court to begin. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The prisoner blinks down at the scene as if from a very high perch. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One moment the prisoner was bearing down on it; the next, the lizard was on the other side of the arena. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I do not know how I would have reacted had I not been standing in full view of the other prisoners, but my pride was now at stake. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spoken like a true prisoner of lawful behavior,” she says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

D level prisoners were not allowed to study. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women knew well that the T’ang would not kill them; no, they would be taken prisoner, probably to be tortured. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had taken the locket from a prisoner and hung it on a thin braided rope. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to be busted and thrown in jail so that someday I could tell my sad tale to others, just as the prisoners had told their woeful tales to me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

To my amazement and to the amazement of the other prisoners watching us, Moonface cut a hunk off the loaf with his knife and tossed the bread to me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Prison regulations stated that no child between the ages of two and sixteen may visit a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were all the horde slain? Did we take no prisoners at all?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We had created a new community of formerly condemned prisoners in Alabama who had been illegally convicted or sentenced and received new trials or sentencing hearings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were nonpolitical prisoners and both of our groups were ordered to halt while the two brothers had a chat; the younger brother ordered one of his men to polish his boots while he talked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of French prisoners of war are shipped to Germany for forced labor in the German countryside, and Hitler sends the Luftwaffe to bomb Britain. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners and I looked at one another to see if we had heard right. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I found that the majority of the workers employed at all plants were either prisoners of war or German military prisoners or Russians," Dasch said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The prisoner was simply another rebel who was responsible for the death of my family, as I had come to truly believe. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I learned that I would be visiting this prisoner alone, with no lawyer accompanying me, I tried not to let my panic show. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“What a shame that they should be kept prisoners and be hungry.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set out like prisoners off to their execution. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is separated from us by a wire fence, but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have become that way while he was locked up with the other prisoners of war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tom said, “When you ask them prisoners, they never talk about slavery. But, Lawrence, how do you explain that? What else is the war about?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their minds, the political stakes were enormous, the threat posed by the Federalists put the entire republican experiment at risk, the battle was to the death, and taking prisoners was not permitted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The car slipped off the muddy road and got stuck, forcing the prisoners to flee on foot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One by one, each instructor takes a full bucket from Volkheimer and flings its contents at the prisoner a few feet away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From it descended thirty or more prisoners, one woman among them, in orange jumpsuits. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Because it was a violation of regulations for me to prepare a man’s case, I would instruct the prisoner to copy the document in his own hand. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the two Soviet prisoners weren’t allowed to talk to each other. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Down the way, there were two other prisoners, each alone in their own enclosure. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When I made a point about the long hours doing mindless work, he declared that as prisoners we had to work and were probably lazy to boot. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes tens of thousands of prisoners would be taken. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So paranoia justifies rounding up thousands of people and treating them like prisoners?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The practice was introduced in the fall of 1909 after the female prisoners went on a hunger strike. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The guards shoved the last of the prisoners, including the boy with the red-brown hat, through the doors of the prison and closed them with a loud metal clang. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a prisoner stumbled, causing a tree stump just coming out of the ground to fall back in place, requiring it to be pulled out again. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we made decisions about such matters as prisoners’ complaints, strikes, mail, food — all of the day-to-day concerns of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners scattered to clear a path. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“If you’ve anything to say, you can come to the squire’s and make cognizance of the prisoner.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island had one hospital, and it was difficult to segregate us from the general prisoners while we were there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally one would explode into barking at some prisoner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The work was completed by prisoners from Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana, and from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Gregor had just begun lessons at school when his dad had dropped out of sight and become a prisoner of the rats who probably hated music. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear his visit lifted the morale of many of the prisoners, and some asked him to come back again. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Death row prisoner number five forty-one, you have a visitor. “Please make this a short visit, ma’am, the priest will be here any minute to give the prisoner his last meal and his last cigarette. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were other prisoners in the same condition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why not allow the prisoners their phone call? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A guard tower rose from the fence line about a quarter mile to the north of where the prisoners chopped wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners had been added to the cages throughout the evening, and now there were more than seventy at Camp Greyhound; they were angry. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“And I’m fed up of waving at that stupid camera. Don’t you feed your prisoners around here? I want some food!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

From one set of windows we could see other prisoners and warders as they walked past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doorman stood with his back straight, his chin up, staring down his nose at the approaching archers and prisoners. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He walked around to the rear of Hickock’s chair, and placing his hands on the back of the chair, leaned down as though to whisper in the prisoner’s ear. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At mealtime, a guard watched over each prisoner while he ate. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Or compare the crack dealer’s odds to those of a death-row inmate in Texas, which executes more prisoners than any other state. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My fellow prisoners and I looked around at one another like we were on some alien planet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he first arrived and was being processed, he saw prisoners milling about freely in a grassy courtyard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

What if they had him held prisoner somewhere now and were hurting him? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I glanced around at the other prisoners who had come with me from Birkenau. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, very calmly, the man said, “My name is Caul. And you are all my prisoners now.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A fat man wearing the same uniform as the prisoners thundered through the barracks, a truncheon in his hand. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the prisoner trusties suggested lifting the cage and tilting it slightly, which everyone agreed to try. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My family was missing, and I felt certain they had been killed or taken prisoner. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a convicted prisoner, I did not have the choice of wearing proper clothes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was making the rounds, distributing the cigarettes and pesos we always brought the guards to encourage them to treat our prisoners right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Car after car the prisoners come, a river of human beings pouring out of the night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

During the week of a scheduled execution, only the condemned prisoner facing a scheduled death is permitted to have family visits. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The remainder, under Campion, could have a day’s rest and then make their way back with the does and any other prisoners there might be. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

General Steyn introduced me to the judges and explained that I had been selected to represent the other prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my prisoner,” I remind them, squatting down and slicing through the strips of my dress still tying his legs to the chair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would arrange truces to exchange prisoners. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He stumbled and was dragged onto his feet by Greyback; now he was staggering along sideways, tied back-to-back to the four other prisoners. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stands in his wrecked socks in the trampled snow and tries to make eye contact with the other prisoners, but none will look at him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He motioned to the guards outside to bring in the prisoner they were leading. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Greyback seized Harry and dragged him around to face the light, forcing the other prisoners to shuffle around too. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

All prisoners were to receive the same amount of sugar in the morning: a spoonful and a half. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bodies of the other prisoners fought in the arms of the other boys, and some continued to shake on the ground for a while. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget to lock up your prisoner before you leave now, will you?” he said over his shoulder. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two prisoners holding Jack dragged him into the main part of the camp, far from Moniek. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, prisoner 16013 was at roll call, weak and unsteady, but there. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient tyrant Mezentius of Etruria, punishing his enemies, bound each living prisoner to a corpse and left them thus, shackled face to face, until the corruption of the dead involved the living. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She used to tell about a Confederate soldier from Cold Sassy who got sent to Andersonville to guard Yankee prisoners and passed away in the smallpox epidemic there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In all of Russia, it was estimated, a hundred thousand prisoners had TB, and thirty thousand had MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Help them all up, please. These are our guests, not our prisoners.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The scarring was inevitable—to live in fear of their father’s death, and then to find out he had been taken to prison at gunpoint, made a prisoner, made to live like a rat? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The instructors told us not to show pity. They said, 'If you do, you will become a prisoner.’ Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You are no savior of mine. Do not make yourself a Christ. Christ made me free. You made me a prisoner.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One of the prisoners saw it and ran for it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Old prisoners scrambled for the upper tier, the more desirable, since heat rises. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

To be “charged” meant that a warder claimed that a prisoner had violated a specific regulation, which could be punished by isolation or by loss of meals and privileges. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squeals and yells came from inside the pocket, and the pocket shook as the furious little prisoner fought to get out. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I scan the scene of blood and bodies and prisoners. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Jack and Moniek were taken by truck with other prisoners to various places to help clear the rubble left from Allied bombing raids over Germany. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

None of the fifty prisoners onboard were told where they were going. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And she's usually right about people—smart enough to trust the right prisoners and stay clear of the mean guards. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He was one of the notorious Kleynhans brothers, known for their brutality to prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly no more than three quarters of an hour—not too many prisoners to release, as it’s not technically a prison—17 in all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In theory, this section of the prison was only supposed to be active when prisoners were being processed in or out, but they still had to be careful. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On the fourth day, all the prisoners are piled onto a cattle truck and driven east. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“At last!” cried Capricorn as Basta stopped at the foot of the steps with his prisoner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard of Auschwitz?” our kapo asked the new prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the new prisoners, the older prisoners like me looked pathetically weak and incapable of any kind of real labor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the enclosure, he saw a second walkway, where the female prisoners were being marched. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He asked prisoners to step forward if they were infested. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

December . . . orphanages . . . the schottischeI To the beat of this ominous refrain, she trudged up the stairs to the nursery, one heavy footfall following another, like a condemned prisoner climbing the gallows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“All prisoners, political or otherwise,” says the second, “are forced to do labor, even if they have not been sentenced to it.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I am a prisoner in my own palace, and spies surround me. How could I do anything else?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After the prisoners arrived at the Department of Justice, they entered in the basement and were taken into a specially reserved elevator, which stopped on the heavily guarded fifth floor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Throughout the day, a half-dozen more prisoners came through the station and were brought to the cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was of course no chance of concealment in this life, and my nickname among prisoners and guards was, inevitably, “the Pervert.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A prisoner on an errand saw him and stopped. as though he knew exactly what was happening. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day at roll call, the Witch of Buchenwald walked up and down the rows of prisoners with one of the SS guards. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Officers buzzed from one desk to another, some helping with the intake of prisoners. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners were starting to stir, and Jack forced himself to stand up and look around. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

This many- party prisoner’s dilemma is useful in modeling situations where the economic value of “intangibles” such as clean water, air, and space is an issue. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only the face of the guard, his M-16 by his side, the floodlights coming from every angle, illuminating the faces of Zeitoun’s fellow prisoners, all drawn, exhausted, half-mad with fatigue and confusion. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His position was similar to adult prisoners known as jagubbanjang, or crew managers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Using a needle and thread of my mother’s that had been left behind, I tore out one of the seams in my prisoner coat and sewed the money inside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, God—I am a Night and Fog prisoner. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Hitler is winning and needs our labor elsewhere, insisted other prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, not all my fellow prisoners were pleased about this special treatment, though my father and David were genuinely happy for me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It looked like that worn by every other prisoner—coarse cotton with blue and gray stripes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the third degree, only he was both interrogator and suspect, both tough cop and hounded prisoner, a cruel spotlight pinning him in a blinding circle of light. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if their lord father were truly a prisoner, that could mean his death for a certainty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Smuggling to prisoners was the guards’ sideline; every prison’s inmates know that’s how guards make most of their living. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would I tell her that the Soviets had forced us into cattle cars and held us prisoner for six weeks with barely any food or water? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The first prisoner stood up and strutted back and forth like a bowlegged bulldog. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And then, too, Botticelli Remorso, one lazy Sunday afternoon, had recited from memory all the confessions he had heard from prisoners. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“So much for the prisoners we have here!” cried Capricorn. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was still being kept separately as I was a convicted prisoner, and these sessions were my first opportunity to talk with my colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Latin for “slave” — servus — as rendered in English literally is “the spared one”; slaves being those taken prisoner in battle, who should, therefore, by all the rules of engagement, have been slain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This is when Gus always insists on finding the prisoner, even though that keeps you from winning the game, and the only way to actually free the prisoner is to win the game.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Have you gone completely crazy, you silly baby? He's our prisoner, our enemy.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they cheered for Nzila, who was now a known political prisoner. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if to express his gratitude, the prisoner showed White a Bible, then began to lightly rub a mixture of iodine and water over its blank fly page. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

While there, we were not permitted to go outside or have any contact with other prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minerva thinks they’ve been assigned to us to impress the OAS with the prison system’s delicacy towards women prisoners. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities began a crackdown against political prisoners as though we had held the knife that stabbed Verwoerd. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners had to be asking themselves the same questions, but of course none of us spoke. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The voice from the telescreen was still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter, but the shouting outside had died down a little. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I said, “A dead prisoner, they said get him out of the sleeping-room. Where do I stow him?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The officer seemed to sense that both the prisoner and I were nervous and to take some pleasure in our discomfort, grinning at me before turning on his heel and leaving the room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The Court cannot allow the prisoner to go on,” he said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There is an extensive literature on the subject of prisoner’s dilemmas. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were facing the officers and the prisoner stood in front and a little to one side of us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Plainly said, she was as much a prisoner in her broken body as Curzon was in his cell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had as many guards as prisoners, and they enforced every regulation with threats and intimidation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Party prisoners seemed terrified of speaking to anybody, and above all of speaking to one another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Soon tumors grew on the prisoners’ arms just as they’d grown in the cancer patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The prison service regulations were explicit that each prisoner was permitted to speak only for himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders if this is how it feels for an obese person to become thin, for a prisoner to walk free. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You sound as if I’ve taken you prisoner!” the king said with a laugh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If unauthorized sex resulted in a pregnancy or a birth, the woman and her baby were usually killed, according to my interviews with a former camp guard and several former prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was a policy of selective intimidation, and the decision on who would be charged was taken regardless of how hard that prisoner had worked that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Condemned prisoners on Alabama's death row unit are housed in windowless concrete buildings that are notoriously hot and uncomfortable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and another prisoner was brought in whose appearance sent a momentary chill through Winston. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Clerks at the Amtrak desk will happily show visitors the place where prisoners were fingerprinted, where their heights were determined. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The prisoner must sit down,” Judge Hunt said, his voice firm. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The big knight lifted the prisoner’s shield, which was hanging behind him, and showed or, a chevron gules, between three thistles vert. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were kept there as prisoners for four winters. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin had never stolen clothing from another prisoner. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The pattern was clear now: the prisoners who were being transferred from other prisons came by bus and weren’t processed, while those arrested after the storm were processed inside and brought through the back door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"Make of it what you will, so long as you release your prisoner. The Grand Maester is a staunch friend to the Queen Regent, and under her personal protection." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jack knew the guards believed these things, for they said so often enough to the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Come with us. You are a prisoner. Move, now. Quickly.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners had dug a trench that ran parallel to the wall of the isolation section and had actually removed the pipe altogether. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a collecting point for prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blue jay who flew into a willow when I sat down is right above me, a prisoner of the haze too. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That man kept me prisoner while he spent a lot of time and effort digging up that island. What for, otherwise?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s been days since Evelyn mastered the chaos in the lobby of Erudite headquarters with a few short commands and had all the prisoners hustled away to cells on the third floor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Groups of five prisoners were pressed into cells measuring nine feet by seven feet; the cells were filthy, with poor lighting and worse ventilation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of January 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered the camps and liberated the remaining seven thousand prisoners—a minuscule remnant of the number killed and buried in the camp. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I look on as the prisoner continues to scream. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The tension between prisoners and warders had lessened somewhat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The army of farmers seized Trenton and later proudly paraded some of their 900 Hessian prisoners through the streets of Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could be put in prison; prisoners were even released so that they could share in the general rejoicing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes out of the corner of an eve we could see a prisoner raise his fist in the ANC salute. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay there twitching as the knights pulled their two prisoners away. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We were so angry with the prisoners that we didn’t shoot them but, rather, decided to punish them severely. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the second day, the prisoners rebelled. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were caught while in uniform, they would be treated as prisoners of war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“No. But some of those prisoners have done terrible things....” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They took her into a room with some naked men prisoners. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner had folded and torn and twisted and fringed paper into thousands and thousands of paper birds, of all shapes and sizes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As I was preparing for my meeting with the judges, I was informed by a reliable source that a prisoner in the general section had recently been severely beaten by a guard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They march down the hallway, leaving the bloodied form of Baxter behind, prisoners in what has become their castle over the past few weeks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Hunger drove him and his boyhood friends to try strategies that older prisoners in the camp claimed could ease the discomfort of an empty stomach. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was no more than six feet by eight feet, meant for one prisoner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It had lured him out of his old, wretched life, but it seemed that Dustfinger didn't like it anymore, he didn't know why—and Dustfinger had told him to keep watch on the prisoners. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Germans had launched new attacks in France, between the Somme and Arve rivers and were now claiming to have taken ninety thousand prisoners. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the SS set up its vast system of concentration camps, they moved these criminals into the camps to help control the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” said Woundwort, “that’s enough. Who have we got? Vervain, Campion, put him down. The rest of you, start getting these does back to the warren. The prisoner you can leave to me.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Here's the soldier, to the left. Do you see? Giving instructions to the prisoners. And just in front of him is his partner." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The prisoners bowed, then made an orderly rush to the pavilion. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had the prisoner put into the stocks until he could prove his identity and he resolved to defend the town to the death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Scores of eyewitnesses revealed that prisoners had been denied food and had been forced to sleep in filthy, dangerously unsanitary cells and hallways. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

These young men were a different breed of prisoner than we had ever seen before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was how Meg got to Camazotz, the planet where her father was held prisoner. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But that he had to watch, helpless, knowing how depraved it was—this was punishment for the other prisoners, too. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It normally took years for a political prisoner to raise his status from D to C. We disdained the classification system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier and prisoners will be on our street any minute. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now we learned that Hershel had indeed made it back to Narewka, only to be taken prisoner and murdered by the SS assassins on that terrible day in August. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like the prisoner she was, she lived on bread and water, though she was sure the water must be drugged. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like we’re prisoners—they aren’t making us stay if we don’t want to. And who knows, maybe we do want to.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This ragged group then joined several hundred American prisoners of war on a forced trek to Mampo, a small town on the Yalu River, which forms the border between North Korea and China. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

While waiting or serving his sentence, he’d probably get infected with TB—it was estimated that 80 percent of all Russian prisoners had bacilli in their bodies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I was captured prisoner by the blackhearted, southron, faithless King of the Dragon, and then, in spite of it that she had three beautiful daughters already whatever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roscuro went, as Botticelli told him he must, to torment the new prisoner and to take the red cloth from him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The prisoner turned and looked at the major, and said, “What for?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good shooting,” he said, bending to study their prisoner. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

While the HIV-infected Haitians had committed no crime, they were nevertheless treated like prisoners. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Like that complex, it was a vast grid of chain-link fencing with few walls, so the prisoners were visible to the guards and each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s what happens to filthy little traitors who steal keys and set prisoners free.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some were big enough to allow a man to pace, others so small that prisoners were forced to sit; the smallest were too cramped to allow even that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tree trained the gun back at our prisoner from where he had pointed it at me and wiped his forehead with the back of a dirty hand, leaving a streak like paint. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the prisoners changed into their uniforms and were taken to their tiled cells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps they would consent to a truce, and allow us to trade our prisoners for theirs," offered Lord Lefford. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The number of death row prisoners in Alabama for whom we'd won relief reached one hundred. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The general prisoners declared victory and called off the hunger strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had our bayonets out and were supposed to look in the faces of the prisoners as we took them out of this world. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know much about politics,” 1 said carefully, “but he’s definitely a prisoner.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the yard, newly freed prisoners screamed and scattered, but there was nowhere to run. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I had already begun staring at my prisoner. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We did so, and learned that a day had been arranged for Mac, Wilton Mkwayi, me, and one other prisoner to go to Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is well known that Neuengamme is a concentration camp near Hamburg, notorious for its subhuman conditions, where brutal guards force prisoners to do hard labor with inadequate food and live in squalid cells. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Who could say how or why a prisoner was singled out by the kapos and guards? Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other men were pulled out of the ranks—prisoners who had done nothing but work alongside the men who’d run, prisoners who hadn’t tried to escape. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I was now a convicted prisoner, not an awaiting-trial prisoner, and was treated without even that little deference that is afforded to the latter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t visible to her, but the guards had delineated an area within which the prisoners’ relatives were not allowed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The army’s sending soldiers to gather all the prisoners together,” he said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Conditions of confinement for prisoners were getting worse everywhere. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The three “veteran” prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was still too much afraid, and his fear was not solely of the other prisoners. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they came to a shed where a corporal with only one arm and one eye wrote the name and serial number of each prisoner in a big, red ledger. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want us to guard the prisoner?” the man in the lead asked. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Finally, to repeat what we were all told in Britain,” added Ronneberg, “if any man is wounded, or about to be taken prisoner, he ends his own life.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body was a knot of raw nerves and nausea, my lungs crushed against my rib cage like a prisoner in an iron maiden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

You could face away from the barracks, look past a tiny rapids toward the darkening mountains, and for a while not be a prisoner at all. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lend me your dagger. I have a simple experiment that I wish to try on our prisoner. Come on.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Apparently there is more excitement to come for the prisoners in the cave. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Billy saw service with the infantry in Europe, and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the prisoners from New Orleans were in their computer system. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Had there been any during the war, the prisoners would have eaten it. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was exceedingly odd that a convicted prisoner like Dinath was permitted to stay together with a political prisoner awaiting trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were six prisoners in the cell, men and women. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Nina and Aleksandr had been taken prisoner behind enemy lines by the Germans: the Soviet soldier’s worst nightmare. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

While he was there, he made the sign of the cross over a kid’s head and they thought he was spreading curses, so they took him prisoner and killed him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He saw the prisoner walking rapidly away and chased him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who is frowning at the prisoner as though he recognizes something there. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He must have tired of being crippled, as prisoners tire of penitentiary bars and the guilty tire of blame. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kapos and SS guards were in the barracks, yelling at us to get up and smacking at prisoners with their clubs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Emmett’s first year, the jail held nearly three hundred prisoners, including four murderers, sixty-five thieves, two arsonists, twenty-four burglars, two forgers, five rapists, and twenty-four inmates classified as lunatics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had been able to verify that most of them were neither killers nor traitors, and he was therefore well disposed toward the prisoners. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

White pleaded with the prisoners, saying, “I know you’re going to kill me. But don’t kill these two—they aren’t in it at all.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Terror rose to the top of the ANC hierarchy in the general section, and was soon teaching ANC policies to other prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiks, who was working toward a law degree, was a bright, resourceful fellow who had become the head of the prisoners’ committee in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities had decided to build a wall in front of the isolation section because they had discovered that the prisoners in isolation were able to communicate with us in the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, cold, and severely malnourished, many of these prisoners died during the evacuation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As Tam Lin once said, a jailer has a hundred things on his mind, but a prisoner has only one: escape. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their habit was to drive down every week with Jaimito or with some other prisoner’s family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had tried to write him in prison, but regulations forbade prisoners from corresponding with each other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was walking out with the major, we came upon a young prisoner being interviewed by a prison official. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We want to believe that we are not prisoners of our ethnic histories. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As she was introduced to each prisoner, she asked him whether or not he had any complaints. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the prisoners pulled carts instead of carrying stones on their backs, but that wasn’t a job you wanted either. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally excused myself, giving her a kiss on the cheek and telling her I needed to sign the prisoners' release papers, she stopped me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Soon as I'm within a squint of the castle, I'll turn the beast loose. Guard our prisoners!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of the executions, he coped as the other prisoners did—through symbolic protests and private moments of anguish. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Just when I thought I couldn’t take another step, my load lightened—another prisoner stepped in to take the boy’s other arm! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The end of the Greenwich Road was lined with British soldiers, relaxed and laughing as their prisoners—captured American soldiers— walked three to a row between their enemies through the doors of the Bridewell Prison. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than allow themselves to be taken prisoner and tortured for information, the men were instructed to bite this pill. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The charge of the 20th Maine had cleared the ground in front of the 83rd Pennsylvania; they were beginning to move down the hill, rounding up prisoners. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had informed him who we were, or that we were political prisoners, or that I was a lawyer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners in the camps would be reassigned from now on as each camp needed workers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a week the dead prisoner remains strapped to the stake in the courtyard, his flesh frozen gray. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The prisoners around me seemed to hold their breath, waiting for me to die. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We knew the authorities had long resented and feared the influence we had on younger prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did as I was told with the enthusiasm of a prisoner going to his own beheading. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The privileges affected by these classifications included visits and letters, studies, and the opportunity to buy groceries and incidentals — all of which are the lifeblood of any prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have heard scores of new prisoners swearing back in their cells that when free their first act would be to waylay those visiting-room guards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thus the prisoners, including Zeitoun, were overseen by the Department of Homeland Security. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Communication with the outside world was accomplished in two ways: through prisoners whose sentences were completed and who were leaving the island, and through contact with visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant tilts his head. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then, while washing up, he looked at himself in the mirror for the first since becoming a prisoner. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As the prisoners awoke, with their rantings and threats, Zeitoun prayed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As a rule, we objected to having our pictures taken in prison on the grounds that it is generally demeaning to be seen as a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners looked back over their shoulders to show it hadn’t been them, and I looked back too, as though trying to see who had called out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners hurried up to the American soldiers to shake their hands. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors about the war, rumors about upcoming “selections,” when SS officers would weed out the weakest prisoners and ship them off somewhere. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And Jane says, ‘No, Anne, your girl was speaking to a rebel prisoner on Warren Street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin was fifteen and working alongside thousands of prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Near the quarry, the dirt road diverged, and to the right the general prisoners trooped off to the rock quarry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's going to make the other prisoners walk right around her, leaving her in the middle of the bridge for the milkmen and street cleaners to find in the morning. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is, however, a telegraph line at Point Lookout, a former Union prisoner- of-war camp at the mouth of the Potomac River. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra watched as a condemned prisoner watches the stir at the back of the courtroom that might be a messenger with a pardon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I suggested that such a gambit be postponed until I was a convicted prisoner and the authorities were less cautious. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who are you, and what is your association to the prisoners?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You have been a prisoner a long time,” she said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Somkit was a head shorter than Pong, and skinny—even for a prisoner. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Often, we would start this call-and- response ourselves, but that night, other nameless prisoners took the initiative, and the voices from around the prison seemed uncommonly strong as though steeling us for what lay ahead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner lifted his shackled hands and gave the wheel a hard spin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Department of Prisons released a statement to the press that I had been removed from the island for my own safety because PAC prisoners were planning to assault me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chains were meant as a reminder that I am a prisoner, not an employee. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Three prisoners in chains—and, among them, the little pipe, the sad eyed angel. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burger was interrogated and locked up in a cell where prisoners were held when they were about to be executed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The men ladling the soup were prisoners too, and sometimes one of them would take pity on me, stir the bottom of the pot, and put a real piece of potato into my bowl. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

White gathered enough evidence to convict the former warden, who became prisoner No. 24207 in the same penitentiary. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One of the prisoners had just seen her story on TV. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The authorities were in the process of finishing an entirely separate maximum- security structure for political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly sent an aide to take Cleopatra prisoner. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They had no choice: The moment anyone entered the room and saw the absence of three prisoners, they were lost. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This evening there are 19 prisoners from Poitiers being transported to a concentration camp somewhere in the northeast of France. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With a cry, the prisoner fell to his knees and began to lick up whatever traces of the soup he could find. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners became even more distrustful of lawyers, even the ones who claimed they would help. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But in Norway and Sweden, we were greeted with open arms, and given assistance and scholarships and money for legal defense and humanitarian aid for political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His reputation preceded him, for his name was a byword among prisoners for brutality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tense moment and, at the time, neither of us saw any irony in a prisoner asking not to be released and his jailer attempting to release him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was afraid to, for if the other prisoners heard of his bearing tales to the warden, then his life, as he put it, “wouldn’t be worth a dead coyote.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Willie, that sounds like something out of the sixties, know what I’m sayin’? Something about declaring war on poverty and Spanish Harlem being a prisoner of war. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Washington left to our imagination exactly how Boudinot must have spied on prisoners. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All of them. The prisoners in chains and my helpers.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now, like the other prisoners, his head had been shaved, probably to prevent lice. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jimmy locked the steel gate, leaving Alex with the uncomfortable sensation of being a prisoner, even though he knew he and Julie were safer if the store was locked shut. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Quakers’ goals were prevention of further harm to society, deterrence, and, by the early nineteenth century, encouragement of prisoners to en-gage in “penitent reflection,” which could result in their personal reformation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she interviewed a prisoner at the jail, she’d leave one of her kids in the holding cell and tell them, “This is what it’s like” if you do something wrong. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners who worked the mine were already back in their barracks, asleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I learned after the war that as a result of that attitude the Japanese prisoner- of-war camps were terrible places. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the prisoners in this camp, like the last one, were Polish, German, or Russian. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are all my prisoners! My property! Seal the entrance, men!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Blanca managed to bring him a guitar and stuffed some rags beneath the strings so no one would hear him composing muted songs of widows, orphans, prisoners, and the disappeared. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

MI6 invited Blake to London for a gentle interrogation about his years as a prisoner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Was this how a prisoner slipped from being a person to a Muselmanner? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes became a model prisoner—became in fact the model of a model prisoner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I know you,” the eyes seemed to say, “1 see through you, I know very well why you didn’t go to see those prisoners hanged.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As you’ve doubtless heard, there's just a slight delay, a wee delay getting the heads of the two prisoners to give to Ghohg. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The Grisha prisoners’ hands were kept tightly bound to keep them from using their power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

With the exception of ourselves, all men at Pollsmoor were common- law prisoners, and their treatment was backward. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The foreman in charge of the work crew was also a prisoner, and therefore unarmed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I spotted Moonface, out in the yard, pushing another prisoner to the ground and kicking him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The SS officer stopped in front of the prisoner beside me and suddenly commanded his dogs, “Attack! Attack! Kill the Jew!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

This thin, miserable, dirty garbage is the objective of the prisoners. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We asked for contact with other prisoners, and in general made the same basic complaint that we always had: to be treated as political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I would not intervene on his behalf, and simply bowed in the direction of the prisoner to let him know that I was on his side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After 36 hours, one prisoner began to get hysterical, and had to be released. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All eyes were on the Governor, who bent down to whisper some last comforting words to the wayward boy before turning to watch the prisoners’ performance. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Theron was a sour fellow who did not like to deal with prisoners face to face. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bag of salt was sent for from the kitchen to be mixed into a solution that would be applied to the prisoners' legs and partially shaved head. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“The prisoners must be placed in the cellar, while I think what to do!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the prisoners talked more and more about the details of the Evans's execution and Wayne Ritter's impending execution, Myers became more and more distraught. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Alabama Supreme Court had just scheduled another death row prisoner's execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Inside was a petition that people could sign to ask for my release and that of my fellow political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although under normal circumstances I and the other men would relish a visit to Cape Town, going as a prisoner was altogether different. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor clowns, wider than tall, more dead than alive, poor creatures whose ghostly faces peeked out from layers of prisoner’s clothes! Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the inmates, the lower floor is known as The Hole—the place to which difficult prisoners, the “hardrock” troublemakers, are now and then banished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against my will, I have been taken prisoner, and feel like I’m being punished for a crime I did not commit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s too lighthearted. They wouldn’t expect us to feel like that, not with Milligan taken prisoner. It’s a riddle of some kind—important advice. We just have to figure out what it means.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I demand to know what measures you propose, sir, to recover those taken prisoner last week. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Every evening, in Pretoria Local, before lights were out, the jail would echo to African prisoners singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of prisoners in threadbare clothing hurried from one work detail to another, threatened by gun-wielding German and Ukrainian guards. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At Sunrise there were no prisoners left behind, but evidence of their trapped lives was everywhere. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Early one morning, when no guard was around, Moniek caught a Hungarian Jewish prisoner trying to steal potatoes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their relationship echoed, in many ways, the bonds of trust and mutual protection that kept prisoners alive and sane in Nazi concentration camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“A cowshed. How unimaginative. I really would have expected Capricorn to at least have a proper dungeon for his prisoners.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Piper said they play ball on Alcatraz. The prisoners, I mean. Maybe you could play with them. Or better yet, get us both in the game.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners had taken over the prison and were asking for amnesty. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners were tortured with electric cattle prods as punishment for violations of the prison’s rule. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Odysseus succeeded in making him a prisoner, and he told the Greeks Troy would not fall until someone fought against the Trojans with the bow and arrows of Hercules. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that he himself had been a prisoner in Orthanc and had hardly escaped, and he begged for help. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You get the bread tonight,” a prisoner standing by him said quietly. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Campbell was the one who had written the monograph about the shabby behavior of American prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we won’t have to leave any of the prisoners inside. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Why did you run?” he asked his young prisoner. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari and the other prisoners in her boat watched, however, in horrid fascination as the two women—a mother and daughter— tried in vain to swim back to shore. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were former criminal defense lawyers from Washington who had come to Georgia in response to a growing crisis: Death row prisoners couldn't get lawyers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Part of a prisoner's punishment is not knowing his execution date. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

If let off work, what was to be done with him?—especially if no other prisoner was in kemmer at the time, as was possible, there being only some 150 of us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, one of the prisoners asked to see White privately. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t see any guards, but I can see other prisoners trying to listen, and who knows which of them might decide that extra food or privileges are worth a betrayal to the Germans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The brick buildings were constructed by prisoners themselves, using bricks made on site. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Nothing major. These little batons pack quite a punch, though. How’s our prisoner?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now it was going to serve as a home away from home for one hundred American prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of the prisoners called out my name. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carroll advised him that he had some sick prisoners the local hospital refused to treat, so he had ended up buying the medicine himself. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Arsinoe was among the prisoners in chains whom the soldiers marched past the crowd. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It appeared that he had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the prisoners killed was the boy’s father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, he shook hands with many of the prisoners, rubbing shoulders in the cramped space. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The hilarity of the British soldiers did not ease their fears as to the fate of the prisoners. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he ran, he gathered from some shouted remarks that a convoy of Eurasian prisoners was passing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They glanced at their prisoners, then at each other, then back at the ropes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“My brother is among the prisoners,” I said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person whose prisoner died quickest would win the contest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A film crew from Ireland came to Alabama to make a short documentary about the death penalty that would feature Walter's case and the cases of two other Alabama death row prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The crowd vibrates with anticipation and energy, closing in around the prisoner, glaring at him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the food filled my plate and the soldiers and former prisoners around me began to eat, I remembered that day in Kraków so long ago, the day the war had begun. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners used small axes to hack the branches off logged trees, while others stacked wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And so the prisoner took the cloth and draped it around his shoulders as if it were a cloak, and the soldier of the king said, “Right then, Gregory, he’s all yours. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I did not see the face or hear the voice of another prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A building in the compound exploded, shaking our barrack, and I covered my head with my hands, just like all the prisoners around me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a nurse who came through the cellblock once a day, pushing a cart full of medicine, handing pills to the prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Bigwig gave the guard a tremendous cuff on the side of the head, which knocked him clear across the run and into the prisoner’s alcove. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aggressive enforcement of these criminal offenses opened up an enormous market for convict leasing, in which prisoners were contracted out as laborers to the highest private bidder. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

According to custom, Caesar exhibited his war spoils in a procession of prisoners and treasure that paraded through the streets of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Another source was Elias Boudinot, a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress who went into the army as a colonel and became superintendent of British prisoners of war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood and watched them, the once confident troops now dejected prisoners of the Soviets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That the Capitol falls, lays down its arms, and gives up its prisoners before they hurt Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Chief Powhatan refused to give in to the hostage takers’ demands, and Pocahontas remained a prisoner. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The prisoners slumped dejectedly upon the Abbey grass, awaiting the break of dawn and the coming of Cluny the Scourge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If a pilot were ever taken prisoner, his captors could use the knowledge that he was married to torment him by inventing stories about his wife. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No question about it this time: He was definitely a prisoner. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

German soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed the prisoners and shot them in the head. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of these men were common-law prisoners, but I knew diere would be some political prisoners among them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had found the scalped body of one of the captives lying by the trail, and they had little hope that in that weather any of the prisoners would have been spared. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The government ordered him to be held as a "restricted or isolated prisoner" to keep him separated from the other inmates. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By overhearing the guards and prisoners talking, Zeitoun realized the prison had been given at least two nicknames by the guards and soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could see the other prisoners glancing at one another, wondering the same thing. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd continued to boo as guards entered the arena to remove the prisoner’s remains, tendrils of smoke still curling from his ruined flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The prisoners had that same flabbiness and coarseness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty discarded peelings were put in the prisoners’ soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning, the keepers marched each gallery’s prisoners to an outdoor latrine to dump their tall iron slop cans, or night buckets, which each man carried in his left hand. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suitcase had no reply, and the lieutenant did something I have rarely seen a superior officer do: he chastised his subordinate in the presence of prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Suzman was one of the few, if not the only, members of Parliament who took an interest in the plight of political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a nonpolitical prisoner among us, nicknamed Joe My Baby, who later joined the ANC and proved invaluable in helping us smuggle material in and out of prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard that in the main section, prisoners were collapsing and being taken away in wheelbarrows. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, he seemed to be the only prisoner in the complex entertained by the state of affairs—being held at Camp Greyhound. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I heard some of the stories the prisoners told during those interviews. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You translate for prisoners of war? You work for Intelligence—you translate at interrogations?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I certainly hope you take greater care in monitoring the activities of your prisoners than you do in watching your own flesh and blood. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his reveries ended, he was still in a filthy, threadbare, lice- infested uniform in a miserable camp crowded with starving and dying prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

What that meant for Alabama death row prisoners and EJI staff was seventeen executions in thirty months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The two inspectors wedged themselves on each side of their prisoner. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“There will be regular patrols round the perimeter of the building to ensure that civilians do not tarry overlong in conversation with the prisoners.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I puffed up my chest to try and look as strong and healthy as I could, but the commandant took one look at me and moved on past, picking other prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On President Snow: He’s being held prisoner, awaiting trial and most certain execution. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The prisoners pressed their palms together and dropped to their knees. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Neither could any of the other prisoners, from the looks of our ragged ranks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But we have six prisoners, Captain,” I tried to keep my voice steady. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the same for all the other prisoners too, I knew. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We had to keep strict control in and around the kitchen, or all the prisoners would have been trying to steal food,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Where did you get all this ammunition from?” the corporal asked one of the prisoners, a man with an almost dreadlocked beard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were rumors of cells in the basement where the souls of dead prisoners, prisoners who had died in jail, howled all night. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was marching with a lot of other prisoners. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some PAC prisoners, who often flouted the rules simply for the sake of doing so, spent a great deal of time in isolation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a former officer looking back into Sing Sing’s history, I was struck by lost institutions of the old prison, such as the bands that played as prisoners marched to chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half asleep, I got down from the shelf and joined my group along with row upon row of prisoners from the other barracks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There were superior orders that prohibited visits to prisoners condemned to death, but the officer assumed the responsibility of letting her have a fifteen-minute stay. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone was awake now, every prisoner, and we watched the roof and waited without a word, waited to see if one of the bombs would fall on us and kill us all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrive hundreds of people are already there, standing around the prisoner. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a journal entry oj what occurred at La 40 on Monday, April 11th, 1960, to me, a female political prisoner. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He describes how two Khmer men in their early thirties stepped forward and took the prisoner from the Youns as the crowd cheered again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the Armenian king back to Alexandria as a prisoner of war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

His hair was only three-quarters of an inch long and had a stripe through the middle, shaved right down to the skin, to mark him as a concentration camp prisoner. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Everyone out. I want a private word with the prisoner." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When I told the visitation officer that I was a paralegal sent to meet with a death row prisoner, he looked at me suspiciously. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Labor camp prisoners almost never eat rice and its absence is a daily reminder of the normality they can never have. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners said he was lucky and would never get it again—that a mild case was like an inoculation. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a strange way, even though he is still a prisoner, Captain Smith seems to be winning the battle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’d just have to bank on the fact that they had more important things to worry about than a missing prisoner. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He left her with his guards, confident that his prized prisoner would be safe. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The irony of a jailer bringing his prisoner such a gift was not lost on either of us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you have no right to be on my island, so consider yourself my prisoner.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m like a prisoner in my own home! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For years, we were not permitted to receive funds except from our families, so that poor prisoners rarely had money for books or tuition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a prisoner was released, the prison crossed out their mark with a line and added a little star symbol. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The prisoner lay on the bed, fast asleep, but she stirred at the sound of his voice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I would have collapsed from exhaustion if I hadn’t been held up by the prisoners squeezed in around me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out here, the elements killed more prisoners than our guards did. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching the waterside fairgrounds, he saw prisoners in chains being marched aboard a convict ship. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The challenge for every prisoner, particularly every political prisoner, is how to survive prison intact, how to emerge from prison undiminished, how to conserve and even replenish one’s beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He commanded four prisoners to mop the floor. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ice caked the prisoner’s mustache, clumps of frozen snot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Another soldier gave me a pair of wooden shoes and a blue-and-gray-striped prisoner uniform made out of a thick canvas material. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those were all things for criminals, for prisoners, for people who couldn’t be trusted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners, meanwhile, began to share information, allowing White to uncover what was described as a system of “gilded favoritism and millionaire immunity.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It took fifteen years, but in 1979, the authorities announced over the intercom system that the diet for African, Coloured, and Indian prisoners would henceforth be the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner leaned his weight on me as he gave out his last breath. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Alabama Supreme Court had scheduled execution dates for several death row prisoners who had completed the appeals process. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The creature dropped its weight on the prisoner with a sickening crunch and set about slowly mauling his shoulder as he lay there shrieking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My gran still tells the story of when I was three years old and, fed up with being a prisoner, I dug a hole under the gate in the driveway, wriggled through, and ran off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The male prisoners were led clanking up a dark flight of stairs to a metal walkway. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Most of the prisoners were asleep or resting, curled into corners or flat on their backs with an arm thrown over their eyes to block out the dim lamplight that filtered through the grate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I advocated that we should remain seated, as it was demeaning to have to recognize the enemy when he did not recognize us as political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the prisoner is to be kept safe and intact, under pain of death for every member of the guard, until He sends or comes Himself. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Undoubtedly. Now, turn to that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that his legal advisers instructed him altogether to reserve his defence?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dad said he considers himself a political prisoner. Would you agree with that?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If you were the evil Dr. Cable, where would you put your prisoners.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Nazi grabbed my hand and read the number on my arm, then moved on to the next prisoner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the hottest part of the day, and the prisoners lay dozing or chatting in the shade on the other side of the courtyard. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

One of the few ways prisoners can take revenge on warders is through humor, and Van Rensburg became the butt of many of our jokes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not realize a prisoner was close by, but more than that, there was something about this cough, something that struck me as curiously familiar. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my side of the room there were about ten prisoners, most of them Arabs. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

These lusty, ruddy vocalists were among the first English-speaking prisoners to be taken in the Second World War. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners stare, gaping, at the body in the middle of the bridge, some of them letting out shocked screams, some of them clasping their hands in silent horror. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They fell in line like prisoners: preachers, politicians, various professionals, proving Clifton correct. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also glimpsed the sinister power of the Indian and the subtle mockery of the servants, and felt herself a prisoner in the anteroom of hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners sat very still, their hands crossed on their knees. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His prisoners come to an uncertain stop in the middle of the street as the soldier sweeps a flashlight in Ollie's direction. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over the heads of the prisoners Chamberlain could see the Regiment falling into line out in the flaming road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether or not the prisoners went voluntarily, who knows? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Hickock obeyed, with an expression that the detective interpreted as a pleading with him to speak, to accuse, and let the prisoner escape into the sanctuary of steadfast denial. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had read through his prisoner’s papers and hailed a farmer. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We demanded to be taken to work like the other prisoners, and this was soon granted, but we were taken out alone, supervised by Kleyrihans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osborne’s shortcoming, as Lawes saw it, was that he gave prisoners too much self-government too fast—and that some of what he gave should never be given at all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was no longer prisoner 16013. I could not throw away that filthy uniform with that hateful number fast enough,” said Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She came to me, checked the number tattooed on my arm, and moved to the next prisoner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He arrived from Long Beach, California, at the beginning of January, in a country where cattle often freeze to death, and he was of course a prisoner of war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards gave these managers, who were always male and tended to be physically imposing, virtually unchecked authority over their fellow prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She’d seen some of these prisoners after the interrogators got through with them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The train slowed, and the other prisoners began to stir. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And with the change in the weather, a change had come in the mood of the prisoners on the island. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Before being attacked, the supposed Colonel Gregorio Stevenson had freed the prisoners and ordered his men to go out and fight in the street. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She’s dressed as a sheriff and I’m wearing black-and-white prisoner stripes. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

We guessed that we were to have a visitor and I had been moved because the authorities did not want me to be the first among the prisoners to talk to whoever was coming. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie had thought the prisoners were still in the nets, but she could see no trace of them when she and Basta entered the church, and Basta had impatiently pushed her past the columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Court ruled unanimously in our favor, deciding that a condemned prisoner could challenge unconstitutional methods of execution by filing a civil rights case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When Dasch was finally allowed to interact with the other prisoners, no one liked him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Now they were going to take prisoners into Germany’s interior. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we’re officially taking you prisoner. You have to come with us.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was heavy work, and boring; there was nothing to it but swinging my pickax again and again, breaking off big chunks of salt that another prisoner shoveled into a donkey cart. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners who had arrived at Hunt during the first days after the storm had lived through conditions beyond comprehension. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Billy and five other American prisoners were riding in a coffin-shaped green wagon, which they had found abandoned, complete with two horses, in a suburb of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November, not long after Park was assigned to the textile factory, four Bowiwon guards paid a surprise visit to the prisoners’ nightly meeting of self-criticism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the end, the Youns opened the door and handed the prisoner over to the people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the other prisoners to an outside area where he saw men eating. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them preferred to bring their prisoners with them, as witnesses to their stories. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cages were finished, the Angola prisoners were sent back north, and the guards remained. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When the military tribunal began on July 8, 1942, the prisoners changed into the new clothes that they purchased on their shopping sprees. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, Anatole’s most faithful prison correspondence was with a nun in Bangassou, which was a matter of great hilarity to his fellow prisoners. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thirty or forty jailkeepers and a hundred and fifty or sixty prisoners, none of them very well off, most of them sound asleep though it was not much past Fourth Hour. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the other women prisoners walked out into the yard, their chins nearly touching their chests, their shaved heads sunk low on bowed necks. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The cameramen, pursuing the prisoners and the police into the courthouse and up three flights of stairs, photographed the door of the county jail slamming shut. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off to the right a huge mass of prisoners: two hundred, maybe more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, he could hear the other prisoners murmuring to one another in different languages. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was corrupt and demeaning, another way of repressing prisoners in general and political prisoners in particular. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the prisoners held his hands over Jack’s mouth. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

"And I charge you to bring the prisoner a cup of wine and a nicely crisped capon, before he dies of hunger," Lannister said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They didn’t question him about what had happened while he was a prisoner, just had him wait until someone came to drive him back to his unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, a foreman from the garment factory herded Shin, Park, and about twenty-five other prisoners up the mountain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In solitary, he met few prisoners or correctional staff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Seamstresses not cleaning the superintendent’s room were fair game for the chief foreman and other prisoners with supervisory jobs in the factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Once again, and I hope this will be the last time," said Capricorn to Meggie, “start reading! The prisoners have waited long enough for their executioner." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The servant boys drifted away, and presently the three prisoners sat for a moment neglected. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

More important, Kathy had been our chief of communications, and it was because of his work that we were able to communicate with new young prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pondered in the darkness, incredulous that a supposedly revoked passport had turned him into a prisoner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the other death row prisoners were shocked. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Come on!” said Greyback to his men, and the prisoners were shunted through the gates and up the drive, between high hedges that muffled their footsteps. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Between the two grates was a space of eight to ten meters which separated the visitors from the prisoners. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Taken prisoner during the first federalist adventure, he managed to escape to Curaçao disguised in the garment he detested most in this world: a cassock. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Thus, he was neither taken prisoner by his enemies, who had fled, nor by his auxiliaries, since he triumphed with troops other than theirs. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon a new prisoner was brought through the bus-station doors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A witness, though sworn to secrecy, revealed that “on the fourth application of current, the prisoner’s eyeball broke and the aqueous fluid ran down his cheek.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steps, noose, mask; but before the mask was adjusted, the prisoner spat his chewing gum into the chaplain’s outstretched palm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would they truly allow prisoners to freeze to death? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do I care if you kill one another? You’ll all be dead soon enough anyhow. You. And you,” he said, pointing to two of the prisoners watching nearby. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not over yet: Harry sped between duelers, past struggling prisoners, and into the Great Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Prison regulations stated that prisoners must stand in the presence of a senior officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I also am a prisoner of the healers.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Nazis loved having new prisoners who didn’t know what was coming. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t the ideal prisoner; he was the type of person who couldn’t be incarcerated indefinitely without doing harm to himself or others. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She accepted her situation at face value, and never spoke ill of her benefactor—or more accurately, her captor, for she was clearly Goddard’s prisoner, even though she might not see it that way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But they were prisoners like she was, shackled to fear. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You are a serving girl delivering a tavern loaf to the starving prisoners. You don’t know about the note.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast consisted of mealie pap porridge, cereal made from maize or corn, which the general prisoners would slop in a bowl and then spin through the bars of our cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If each prisoner in turn voiced his complaints, the authorities could yell “Time up!” before a visitor reached cell 18. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why she had chosen surrender and made Dorcas her own prisoner of war. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warden looked down the line of prisoners, and his eyes became glassy and sad behind his spectacles. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

All this helped to pass time, but still there were many long hours the prisoner had to lose. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen Shirriffs had been told off as escort to the ‘prisoners’; but Merry made them march in front, while Frodo and his friends rode behind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Moniek was assigned to help repair the kennels while the dogs so feared by the prisoners were out on patrol. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll try to get word to Bridgebane’s family tonight. It is against all the laws of war to treat prisoners so badly.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus will swing by Ormaie and pick up 5 more prisoners here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

All around, blue-clad prisoners stand at attention, noses one inch from the white wall, never moving, never flinching. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities were concerned we might “infect” the other prisoners with our political views. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday, I would supply vegetables to the kitchen so that they could cook a special meal for the common-law prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been too time-consuming and dangerous to pick and choose the prisoners they’d replaced. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were challenges issued by the prisoners to the guards, and soon more pepper-sprayings. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In all, there was perhaps one kapo for every fifty prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the guards had snarling Roll call was always a terrifying experience for prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up with the new prisoners to the tops of the brick chimneys, where a thick black smoke poured out into the blue-white sky. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

This became our core group of about twenty prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dignified theater with velvet curtains is now a massive holding cell for German prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Isolated and remote, most prisoners got few visits and even fewer privileges. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For more than six years I had been a prisoner of the Nazis. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a week of long hours to develop all the X-rays and when I finished I had sorted the prisoners' shots in alphabetical order, and I did the same with the guards' stack. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had stupidly left it there, and another prisoner, perhaps even colder and more desperate than I, had taken it. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Death row prisoner Jesse Morrison told Walter that his prosecutor in Barbour County had used twenty-one out of twenty-two peremptory strikes to exclude all the black people in the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Still, the ship’s hold had been dark, and she’d been one of a group of prisoners—filthy and frightened. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners hollered in panic and tried to pull their chains from the stone walls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest had come to see other prisoners since then, but had not stopped to talk with him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s terrible,” she said over the screams of the prisoner. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After that the whole lot of us, new prisoners and old, were divided up into squads of twelve. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men had told terrible stories about how the British treated their American prisoners. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I was supplying all my fellow prisoners with food. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our kapo stopped us at the station, where we waited for new prisoners to join us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

By early afternoon the central prison had been opened and the prisoners set free. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I finished my internship committed to helping the death row prisoners I had met that month. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Gilly had thought she hated all schools so much that they no longer could pain or disappoint her, but she felt heavier with each step—like a condemned prisoner walking an endless last mile. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Among the bewildered, emaciated prisoners to walk out of the camp that morning were one family of dwarfs and several twins—the few remaining survivors of Mengele’s genetic experiments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Farmer asked, referring to his argument with Alex about pardoning prisoners. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A man is taken away from other prisoners, from his experience of other people, when he is locked away in solitary confinement in the hole. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parole board officials maintained that their ruling was based on the grounds of Hale’s advanced age—he was seventy-two—and his record as a good prisoner. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was older, and judging by the hostile glare he gave the prisoners, more brutish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They brought all the prisoners into the courtyard at dawn and forced them to watch, because this was also a personal matter between the colonel and his prisoner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin saw a truck arrive at the factory and watched as the ailing prisoners were loaded into it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was his first time behind bars, and of all the prisoners doing Katrina time,” as they’d termed it, he was the most perplexed by it all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Sister Ignatia felt it best not to mention the escaped prisoner. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some of them are occupied, while other prisoners gather around a fire giving more smoke than warmth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But during the first few years, when the authorities needed one prisoner to speak on behalf of others, that individual would be me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith picks up the chains that recently held him prisoner. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Six times a day, like every other prisoner, I was counted at my bed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Officers had brought the prisoner down to the Hospital Building, which also housed the disciplinary offices and the watch commander’s office, where most of the white-shirts hung out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have taken her ’round the rooms they use for the orderlies—perhaps even planted a few as dummy prisoners. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Standing next to a tree with red frozen sap on its bark would bring flashbacks of the many times we executed prisoners by tying them to trees and shooting them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When his turn arrives, Werner throws the water like all the others and the splash hits the prisoner in the chest and a perfunctory cheer rises. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After the coronation, the death cell prisoners will be executed—which means that unless the Resistance gets him out of prison, Darin will die tomorrow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners and colored slaves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the victims were slaves and criminals, but mainly they were prisoners of war. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Moonface,” one of the other prisoners said as he fell in alongside me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night I was fast asleep on my shelf, slotted in with all the other prisoners in my barrack, when shouts startled me out of my sleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papá became more depressed and often went into the shed, staying there for hours, like a prisoner in a cell. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

At the first two or three dousings, the prisoner comes awake, rocking back on his heels. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They want a public execution of the prisoner. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we started working, I got some sense of what life was like for other prisoners on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the prison authorities wielded the classification system as a weapon against political prisoners, threatening to lower our hard-won classifications in order to control our behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were transporting her in a bus full of prisoners to one of their concentration camps and we tried to stop it—” He interrupted plaintively, “Must it be the murder first? Go back a bit.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With a disgusted shake of his head Mr. Curtain exclaimed, “Children! Am I supposed to fear unarmed children? No doubt they’re in cahoots with my prisoner. Unlikely agents, but no matter—they’ll soon join him.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thick earthen walls protected the prisoners from freezing, but the only light was the single torch left by the guard. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The oldest tenants were standing by the door, guarding the entrance to the dining room where their former patron was being held prisoner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina injected the prisoners with a sleeping solution to prolong their rest, and Wylan helped roll them into the gully behind the trees. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even in the prisoner’s dock it’s always interesting to hear people talk about you. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The door in the rock was solid iron, broken only by a narrow slot through which to pass the prisoner’s meals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nearly seventy of the ruffians lay dead on the field, and a dozen were prisoners. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The total number of prisoners in the single cells was usually about twenty-four. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners trudge clockwise around the prison yard, marching single file on the worn path, their gray prison smocks billowing like the wings of birds. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No one can see him. Not even the other prisoners.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

One literally never saw them except in the guise of prisoners, and even as prisoners one never got more than a momentary glimpse of them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then one cold winter morning after roll call, Jack and several hundred other prisoners were held back while the others were marched off to work. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the roll call, the prisoners from all the blocks dispersed, looking for friends, relatives, or neighbors among the arrivals of the latest convoy. days went by. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re trying to put pressure on Trujillo Junior to leave the country. Then the prisoners will be released. We just have to keep hoping and praying,” she adds more cheerfully. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners on the ground around us looked up at me with wide eyes. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another prisoner in his barracks had a red triangle, so he was a political prisoner who had opposed Hitler. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The commandant moved among us, pointing at prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I soon began to protest vigorously against my circumstances and demanded to be put with the other political prisoners at Pretoria Local. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We starving prisoners stood at attention, with our hunched shoulders and gaunt faces and oversized, filthy clothes, while healthy, well-fed children and their mothers came to see the animals. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We may be reminded of prisoners trying to look out from small cell windows, or perhaps “blindfolded” targets of execution. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whimpered louder as the prisoners looked on. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When Hel and I were Fivers, a Barbarian raiding party took us prisoner. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Two sailors barred her way, and she said, “Down there! The prisoner has got loose! Get help!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Civilian workers had masks and gloves to protect them from the chemicals, but we prisoners had no protection,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

His enemies once captured him and kept him a prisoner in a little cell. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just need the address of the courthouse where the hearings are, the hearings for prisoners at Hunt? I just need the court address.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They could call him their guest, but it didn’t change the fact that he and Boots were prisoners. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would receive a smuggled note from a prisoner in F or G asking for help. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was handcuffed and taken to Pretoria in an old van in the company of another prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most slaves were prisoners of war, seized in intertribal conflicts and sold by enemy Indian groups to the English in exchange for guns, pots, and axes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They burned houses that night, killed one man, and took five prisoners. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Soon thousands of prisoners filled the center area of the camp. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner cast them aside into the sand, and a second later Nina heard it—a roar that carried even over the excited baying of the crowd. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were gunned down before we surviving, wide-eyed prisoners even had time to react. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners and staff had inched closer to see what was going on. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He expects to meet Grant once he crosses over the Union lines, there to surrender his sword and be taken prisoner. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We delivered our prisoner and the stores we had collected to our Lieutenant and boarded our transport. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He is the god of cargoes and of prisoners. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Saemi, this is Bobby. I need your help. I’m a prisoner in Japan and I want to get asylum in Iceland. Can you help me?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

CUT TO: SUNSET, another prisoner, pulling on T-shirt. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of prisoners, from murderers and rapists to DUIs and petty thieves, were thrown together on the stadium grass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The number of general prisoners had been drastically reduced. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s unclear if Peeta means he’d finish himself off now, to spare us having to murder him, or only if the Capitol took him prisoner again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That night, Jack and hundreds of other prisoners were ordered to sleep on a concrete floor in one of the camp buildings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to allow time for me to fall on my face and show that the former prisoner hailed as a savior was a highly fallible man who had lost touch with the present situation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policemen shepherd the prisoner inside while the captain removes a handbag from the car’s trunk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The racial divide on Robben Island was absolute: there were no black warders, and no white prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The military provided the model for the chain of command; enlisted men and women were marshaled daily by their superior officers into a battle of wills with the mass of angry and resentful prisoners. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the door opens and another prisoner is brought into the Hall of Mirrors. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled over my shoulder and ran into the front yard like I’d been held prisoner. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But the effect on prisoners was perhaps equally damaging. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then days and months grew full and waned, the year went wheeling round, the seasons came again, before at last the power of Iphiklos, relenting, freed the prisoner, who foretold all things to him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a kapo, he told us, a prisoner who’d been put in charge of other prisoners by the Nazis, so they wouldn’t have to deal with us all the time. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Take care how you go, Isabel. Many people think it is a fine and Christian thing to help the prisoners. I do not think my niece is one of them.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was much talk about the forced-labor camps to which most of the prisoners expected to be sent. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I know the Nazis have rounded up homosexuals and political prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mangoes were the only fruit the prisoners were allowed to have, and only then because they dropped straight into their arms. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Whether we’re businessmen in a competitive market or spouses in a marriage or superpowers in an arms race, our choices can often be phrased in terms of the prisoner’s dilemma. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the right jawbone visible, above the bloody leer: face of one of the Second Maine prisoners who had volunteered just a few moments past—the fat one. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His commander sent him to kill a runaway prisoner of war from the Colonies. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

At nineteen he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a king. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, a meeting of all prisoners in the single cells was something that was expressly forbidden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was growing too dark to make out faces, hut the prisoner was wearing a shiny steel helm, and when Arya saw the horns she knew it was Gendry. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Neumann One brakes, and Volkheimer postholes out into the snow, speaks to a guard, and wades in among the prisoners, usually wearing only a shirt against the cold. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

None of the men in Zeitoun’s cell knew whether or not these prisoners were still on the football field, or what had become of them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He buys the newspapers every day to scan the lists of released prisoners, and listens incessantly to one of three radios. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the camps, he became accustomed to hitting prisoners who did not meet work quotas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It made me think that it must be harder for the visitors to come in than for the prisoners to visit with them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The prisoner went on to declare that he stopped reading and started fighting back, and kept on fighting back until he killed a man with his bare hands. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As freedom fighters and political prisoners, we had an obligation to improve and strengthen ourselves, and study was one of the few opportunities to do so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you show off your prisoner if he’s in a bronze jar? No entertainment value. Not like my lovely specimens!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Those demands included the release of all political prisoners, the lifting of all bans on restricted organizations and persons, the end to the State of Emergency, and the removal of all troops from the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes considered hanging a shingle outside my cell, because I was spending many hours a week preparing judicial appeals for other prisoners, though this was forbidden under prison service regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays, visiting days for the prisoners, she would stop by the house of Gerineldo Márquez’s parents and accompany them to the jail. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He remembered exactly how he had felt sitting there—listening, making notes, appreciating everything, tabulating every scrap of evidence that told against the prisoner. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But in 1989, driven by a change in the Supreme Court's treatment of death penalty appeals and shifts in the political winds, the attorney general's office began vigorously seeking executions of condemned prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In an all-out campaign to push the Susan B. Anthony Amendment through Congress, a “Prison Special” tour began with former prisoners traveling throughout the country on a train named the Democracy Limited. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The arrested men rode on a train with boarded windows— prisoners had been shot at from railroad sidings—from Seattle to a work camp in Montana. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Arya was thinking how long it had been since she'd had a slice off a pork roast when she saw the first of the prisoners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For as long as you could talk, Haley, you’ve only known me as a prisoner. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe Dad thought of himself as a political prisoner, but Mom thought he was being a selfish jerk. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And they were talking about prisoners—chained, surrounded on all sides, and about to be dumped into cells. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But most of the workers were used in the sorting sheds, stacking the clothing and suitcases and possessions stolen from the prisoners, dividing them into piles to be sent back to Germany. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once outside the front gate, the prisoners released the other hostages and headed out to the main road with White—their insurance policy, as they called him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We each took a step back, then another, until our shoulders met the wall, and we stood together like condemned prisoners before a firing squad. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Those prisoners had been yelled at and whipped mercilessly, and Amah would have wept if she were not so horrified. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Besides, Russia’s epidemic was ravaging its prisons, and prisoners were part of PIH’s special constituency—just check with Matthew 25 if you had any doubts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Leandro and Manolo had been told they would be going on a little trip—what all the prisoners were told before they were killed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, An said, guards were free to indulge their appetites and eccentricities, often preying on attractive young women prisoners, who would usually consent to sex for better treatment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Post survived somewhat longer, for he made no direct attempt to compliment the prisoner, but described sym-pathetically an encounter with him at Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy Pilgrim says he went to Dresden, Germany, on the day after his morphine night in the British compound in the center of the extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mandela, you look like a prime minister now, not a prisoner,” he said and smiled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within days, the North Koreans discovered Blake and took him prisoner along with a group of British diplomats and civilians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities were extremely strict about this, and the only kind of publication that would pass muster might be a quarterly on actuarial science for a prisoner studying accounting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let me and another prisoner stay in the dormitory, simply left us there in our sleeping-bags as if by oversight, when it was plain that we could not stand up on our feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hesitant, wary of some trap, the first few prisoners edged across the planks and through the ring of the stakes, toward Melisandre and the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The American journalist threw out questions to El Jefe about his policies regarding political prisoners and the recent OAS charges of human rights abuses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had already been part of the prisoner chorus at Sachsenhausen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hate and fear of his fellow prisoners, the bloodletting and the terrifying roars of the crowd above, had become part of him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were the first British prisoners to return home, almost three years since most of them had been trapped during the opening days of the Korean War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine what would happen if a prisoner in a concentration camp insulted a Gestapo—they would get killed instantly. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was no fellow feeling of being prisoners together. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a delousing station through which all new prisoners had to pass. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon arrival, a doctor examined each prisoner and asked if he had any complaints. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“What of the prisoners they took after their victory at Breed’s Hill?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

White took over as the warden of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, where he led an undercover operation to catch officials who, in exchange for bribes, were granting prisoners nicer living conditions and early releases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I felt like a prisoner in my own house. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than 1,500 prisoners were crammed into barracks built to house 250 prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were coolly assessing the hundreds of SS guards, the thousands of prisoners surrounding him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the police became more savage: prisoners were routinely beaten and we soon heard reports of electric shock, suffocation, and other forms of torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I scanned the prisoners along the way to the tailor shop, I thought I saw a familiar face. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings, particularly the ones for the prison staff, were clean and contemporary; but the housing for the prisoners was archaic and dirty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Werner feels sympathy for the two million French prisoners of war that the Nazis have forced into labor in Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the prohibition on sex meant nothing to the factory superintendent and the handful of favored prisoners who served as foremen. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Ha, take that, rope, and that! No rope can keep Ragear prisoner for long, he, he, he! Poor old Shadow, if only you could see your lovely rope now!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

This trend, which began in the early 1970s, is said to have forced states to make the protection of vulnerable prisoners a high priority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards also allowed workers—about five thousand adult prisoners and a couple of hundred students from the camp’s secondary school—to catch fish and frogs from the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As a prisoner, Shin was not allowed to eat pork or the meat of any livestock raised on the farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Our time in Chicago with other exonerated former death row prisoners was energizing for Walter, who seemed more motivated than ever to talk about his experience. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For this is the state’s execution chamber; when a man is brought here to be hanged, the prisoners say he has “gone to The Corner,” or, alternatively, “paid a visit to the warehouse.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of “us” consisted of a cook Davos never saw, six guardsmen in the ground-floor barracks, a pair of washerwomen, and the two turnkeys who looked after the prisoner. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But with another scheduled execution fast approaching, condemned prisoners were talking about the electric chair constantly when Walter arrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now a close shot of a prisoner, with a stubbled and dirty face, flanked by two Angels in their neat black uniforms. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legal question was whether condemned prisoners could file civil rights actions to challenge arguably unconstitutional methods of execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My father says they were to go to Calaculla as prisoners of war. But some of the rebels tried to escape on the journey, and...” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Only in front of the cage containing his prisoners did he slow his pace to examine each of the three with a small, satisfied glance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But I am no ordinary prisoner, madam, let’s get that quite clear!” he roared. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Death row prisoners were constantly advising him, but he had no way of knowing whom to believe. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He also had in tow a Hessian prisoner. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got one of the canoes out again and ferried two of the bikes, two of us, and two of the escaped prisoners over the river and saw them off into the fog. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The guards were making the prisoners say to one another they loved each other, and making them march down the hallway, in handcuffs, with paper bags over their heads. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your prisoner, gentlemen,” announced Brinker, seizing my neck and pushing me into the Butt Room ahead of him, “I’m turning him over to the proper authorities.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the guard towers surrounding the camps, guards could keep careful watch on prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Shin worked and waited, he brooded about how the other prisoners were oblivious to the fence and the opportunities that lay beyond it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was still a prisoner, a secret monster. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But of all the things I’m afraid of, there’s nothing that frightens me so much as the likelihood—the near certainty—that Julie is a prisoner of the Ormaie Gestapo. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The interrogator assured her he wasn’t going to do anything to the prisoner. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He did not philosophize about the law or his responsibilities, but Tom noticed that he always maintained the same manner, no matter whether the prisoners were black or white or Mexican. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Most of the Arab prisoners and their families had squatted down facing each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

This prisoner, thinking it would be interesting to see what had become of the city and wanting to help in its cleanup, went willingly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Others, the political prisoners, were subjected every fifth day to questioning under drugs. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was already struggling to keep ahead of the prisoners at the back of the column. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because the North Koreans did not consider South Korean soldiers to be prisoners of war, protected under the Geneva Convention. Instead, they considered them to be fellow citizens who were committing war crimes.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had to show them that we were not everyday criminals but political prisoners being punished for our beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. I had four, but two were killed, one is a prisoner, and I’m going to the other, who is very sick in a Washington hospital.’ he answered quietly.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t bother removing the prisoners from their cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On the third day, so many sick prisoners were being brought in that they were lying on the floor. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I will see you at dinner, my lord. With the prisoner. “This way, Your Majesty,” said Aelia. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Guards taught him and other children in the camp that they were prisoners because of the “sins” of their parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Southam gave multiple cancer cell injections to each prisoner, and unlike the terminally ill patients, those men fought off the cancer completely. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As prisoners began to come back into the barracks, we pushed our way out, hurriedly replacing the floorboard and sitting down on my bunk like we had just come back from work. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even among prisoners on death row, the annual execution rate is only 2 percent—compared with the 7 percent annual chance of dying faced by a member of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation crack gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, the four K.B.I. agents provided accounts of interviews with the prisoners, and of the confessions eventually made by them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the accepted rules of war, the British soldiers should have been treated as prisoners of war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I responded that it was always unacceptable to live in degrading conditions and that political prisoners throughout history had considered it part of their duty to fight to improve prison conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he displayed a rigid righteousness that made him almost a kept prisoner. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But seeing her hit with a bicycle, living like a prisoner in her own backyard, that was the final straw for me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You will be kept a prisoner until the queen returns. If nothing can be proved against you, you will not come to harm. You have my word as a knight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man looked frantically round at the other prisoners, as though with some idea that he could put another victim in his own place. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was a wooden hut like the others, but surrounded on all sides by a picket fence to give the prisoners a place outdoors to walk around in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tested them on prisoners in an effort to discover one that was both quick and painless. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Mountain would come into the storehouse after he had broken his fast and pick one of the prisoners for questioning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Joe Gqabi, another MK soldier who was with us, would carry the matchboxes on our walks to the quarry and drop them at a strategic crossing where we knew the general prisoners would pass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men dragged the prisoner away while people were pushing and shoving around them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clink was once a fowl-house; there we can visit the prisoners, we know how to manage it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, all we have to worry about is a three-hundred-word essay from the point of view of one of these prisoners exploring the realm of belief versus the realm of knowledge. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was led out of the room as the defender opened the file for the next prisoner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nor were we permitted to lend books to other prisoners, which would have enabled our poorer colleagues to study. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners in the middle complained of it being too hot and too close, and of not being able to breathe. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He talked to an orange-clad prisoner for a few moments, gave him a cigarette, and then returned to the bus station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This was a novel experience: my comrades and fellow prisoners were now official visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Pollsmoor I first understood the truth of Oscar Wilde’s haunting line about the tent of blue that prisoners call the sky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why black prisoners become Muslims so fast when Elijah Muhammad’s teachings filter into their cages by way of other Muslim convicts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orange jumpsuit had no pockets—1 guess the sheriff didn’t want prisoners carrying anything that couldn’t be seen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sewing machines were considered more valuable than prisoners, and ruining one was regarded as a grave offense. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one of the prisoners near the end of the line broke off and ran. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the prisoners were women, and some of the guards had been sneaking them out to warm their beds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“However, we know the rats have taken many spinners prisoner. Perhaps we can free a few and persuade them to accompany us. I have often had good results with spinners.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Camp prisoners, who were not allowed to speak to the new prisoners, roughly shaved off all their body hair to help prevent lice. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been thinking that they would have to wear striped pajamas like the prisoners in the old photographs, yet she’d seen no one dressed like that in the camp yet. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a prisoner—yes,” the woman said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gross-Rosen needed workers, and there were no new shipments of prisoners coming in from the countryside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As awaiting-trial prisoners we were entided to two half-hour visits a week, and one meal a day could be sent in from the outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners jumped out of bed and cheered. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Those rules said that prisoners of war, enemy soldiers who had surrendered or been captured, had to be fed and housed in a humane way. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duke was captured after the battle of Richmond and spent a few months as a prisoner before being released at war’s end. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This entire wing of the prison, they said, held Katrina prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A rustle went through the prisoners in the truck, as if they were all coming to attention. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In a mass protest decades ago, thirty-one prisoners cut their Achilles tendons, lest they be sent again to work. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Them prisoners don’t get but one out a ten things sent to em cause the lady guards take it for theyselves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The doctor, a great Jewish doctor, a prisoner like ourselves, was categorical: “We have to operate! If we wait, the toes and perhaps the leg will have to be amputated.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked about the guards at the prison and his experiences dealing with other prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even before the arrival of the post-Soweto prisoners, there was a shortage of warders, and the rebellious young men required even greater supervision. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were the SS really going to leav e hundreds of prisoners behind in the infirmaries, pending the arrival of their liberators? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna told them the story of a town that was under the control of a terrible Witch, who held them prisoner under a cloud of sorrow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Magdalys pulled the keys out and stepped out of the way as a flood of prisoners surged out. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His father walked toward him wearing an orange jumpsuit with his prisoner number across the chest. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Vietnamese officer hit the prisoner with his pistol butt. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

First he made his prisoners take off their handkerchief masks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Before last light on May 8, Germany’s most fanatical boy soldiers were prisoners of war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a report on the behavior in Germany of American enlisted men as prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take these prisoners down to the cellar, Greyback.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I laughed out loud at that, and a prisoner standing over me looked down at me like I was insane. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One night, when the rest of the prisoners were sleeping, Blake approached the North Korean guardhouse, carrying a note written in Russian, asking for a meeting at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This meant 16,012 prisoners had been processed into this camp before Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within a day, the British promised boiled peas and rice with butter twice a week for their American prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the prisoners freeze in place, their breath cold and white against the night. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After all this is his breezy office, his top floor, his pretty prisoner. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again, just like Guantanamo, all prisoners could be seen by anyone, from any angle. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of Mother’s silly ideas. They’re keeping some prisoner in a large bronze jar.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the prisoners were released, the NWP staged a huge mass meeting in Washington, DC, to honor the women who had served time in jail. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Warders generally did not treat this lightly, for when a prisoner was charged he was allowed a judicial hearing and, de-pending on the seriousness of the offense, a magistrate was brought in from Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To counterbalance the effect of these new political allies, the authorities also put a handful of common-law prisoners in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new prisoners nodded, buying it hook, line, and sinker. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They marched one coffle of these paired prisoners across the docks of Norfolk, that the Loyalists on board their ships could see what fate awaited them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At 10:00 a.m. the prisoners were taken from their current cells and moved to their "death" cells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners exploit or react violently to the behavioral symptoms of the mentally ill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two guards bookend the prisoners, the same as the transport yesterday: The older man with the craggy, deep-lined features who looks like my uncle is in front, and the young one follows the prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the guards came through for the next head count, the prisoners would have bad headaches but not much to tell. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I felt like a prisoner, counting the days of a sentence, waiting for my release. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were led inside and shown exhibits celebrating Vietnam’s bloody victory over the French and the ongoing fight against America. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of cases of water and MREs were readily available for the guards and prisoners, while those stranded nearby were fighting for food and water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I was a prisoner for nearly a year for just being there.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You think there are no prisoners here? Take a look at that fence! Go up there, and ask the people on the other side how long they’ve been waiting. Go on!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A luxury, she realized, when compared with the soldiers crowded in their shared tents or the prisoners left to huddle together without shelter. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was no utility in that, just as there was no utility in barring all prisoners from contacting the outside world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I am Tantalus,” the prisoner said, smiling coldly. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why, when there were almost one hundred prisoners elsewhere in the complex, was he in their cage? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The orange jumpsuit had no pockets—1 guess the sheriff didn’t want prisoners carrying anything that couldn’t be seen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to, but I couldn’t find you,” Shin replied, explaining that it was late at night and the teachers’ compound was off-limits to prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But the prisoner had convinced himself that the young men, possibly motivated by a desire for adventure, meant to help him escape. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then detailed the poor conditions on the island, reiterating once more that we were political prisoners, not criminals, and expected to be treated as such. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their job was to make sure no prisoner spent more than two minutes in the latrine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We thought the tent was….We’re looking for...prisoner...the emperor we thought maybe...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“So leading criminals into the heart of Fjerda to steal a valued prisoner is a patriotic act?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"It shall be tried," said the King: and then to one of the attendants, "Send for the prisoner, friend." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The prisoner accepts a cigarette from one of the Angels, puts it awkwardly to his lips with his bound hands. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the looks on the faces of the prisoners already there told me all I needed to know. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Etienne begged his jailers, the guardian of the fort, dozens of his fellow prisoners. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been a prisoner before. And I escaped before,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I know nothing of them except that they are prisoners; and that is exactly what troubles me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, prisoners awaiting trial are not permitted mail, but Aucamp permitted it as a favor to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know now that this new world is dangerous, but are Amil and I just supposed to live here inside like prisoners? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After a few months Blanca realized that she could not hold him prisoner indefinitely and gave up her plans to reduce his spirit in order to make him her permanent lover. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the prisoners were half-naked, others dressed as they went. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If North Vietnam agreed to a cease-fire and returned the American prisoners of war, Nixon said, he would end the bombing and withdraw the remaining American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The prisoner’s escort are up at the hole and they turned us back, sir,” answered one. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the others, this one was surrounded with electrified barbed wire and had towers where guards with searchlights, binoculars, and machine guns kept watch on the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctant to face hostile voters, the president began to feel like a prisoner in the White House. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I just never thought about how, exactly, the Jewish prisoners would get to them. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

By October 1828, it was finished, Newgate sold, and the prisoners transferred. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then the four remaining soldiers ushered every single one of the prisoners out of the bus and made them lie down side by side on their faces in the middle of the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were under the main prison now, five stories of cellblock, prisoners, and guards stacked on top of them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was a single mom too, with Meg’s dad being held prisoner halfway across the universe. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He knows that prisoners will say anything, admit to anything to make the torture stop. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lynds’s prisoners, under threat of the lash, put up temporary barracks, a cookhouse, and carpenter’s and blacksmith’s shops and started filling in shoreline for the prison yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When buses finally arrived, the prisoners were taken to Hunt. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Torres children kept watch from their hiding place until the Immigration and Naturalization Service car drove off with its prisoners in the back seat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Papa’s hug was tight—he was much stronger than he had once been, because he and some of his fellow prisoners in North Dakota had spent a lot of time exercising. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before I had returned to my cell, I reminded him of our complaint that African prisoners did not receive bread. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newly minted “human geneticist,” Josef Mengele, would soon rise to become the most epically perverse of Nazi researchers, whose experiments on prisoners would earn him the title Angel of Death. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But sometimes a vicious prisoner reminds us how dangerous a policeman’s work can be.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We stood squeezed into the train car for half a day while the Nazis loaded more prisoners into other cars. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the chocolate cools, it holds the vanilla goodness prisoner. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That may not sound like the job of an intelligence officer, but Boudinot could get information from his prisoners—deliberately or accidentally. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could not write, and many prisoners could not, I told him to find someone who could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You fire twice, rapidly, each time you aim so you never have to take any prisoners. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He was lined up and then handcuffed to another prisoner, a man in his sixties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I always try to catch a prisoners eye when I go to school, since I can see them through the fences. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The driver is going to notice six more prisoners when he opens the door.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone will file past and soak the prisoner with a bucket of water. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, they don’t show the Dark Lord proper respect, so the name’s been Tabooed. A few Order members have been tracked that way. We’ll see. Bind them up with the other two prisoners!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In return for her freedom, they demanded that her father free the English prisoners he was holding, give back stolen English weapons and tools, and send a large quantity of corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

With thousands of prisoners milling around, Jack quickly lost any sense of direction. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bare seconds later, it had slammed into the prisoner, pinning him to the ground as he screamed, its poison dripping over his face, leaving smoky trails wherever it touched his skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, the new prisoners were allowed to use the latrine. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shin's primary preescape preparation was to steal warm clothes, along with new shoes, from a fellow prisoner. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Two prisoners were trying to break down the locked door. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

In this camp, instead of having individual bunks in the endless rows of numbered barracks, eight prisoners had to crowd together at night on each of the eight-foot-wide three-tiered wooden platforms that lined the walls. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

How had she gone from the most feared prisoner in Endovier to this sappy mess? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“So it was you who left her. Why? And why are we prisoners now? We just want some answers!” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It clung to Holmes and his fellow prisoners like a cloak of moist wool, yet this too he seemed not to mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

El Jefe sat down in an ornate chair on a raised platform and spoke directly to the families of the prisoners to be released. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few civilians they saw in the distance seemed dejected and hungry and paid no attention to the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners had advised him to take action and file a federal complaint, since he couldn't legally be held on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

An emaciated prisoner was being led through the rows of soldiers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Scraps, sir. The mistress normally feeds them to the pigs, but she’s a good soul and told me to bring them for the prisoners,” I lied. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the truck passes a group of prisoners and Volkheimer asks Neumann One to slow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But now she was a prisoner and secret monster who could spy on the life that she could never have. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock there were about fifty prisoners at the bus station, but Zeitoun’s cage was still the only one with its own dedicated guard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In those early days, I often spoke on behalf of my fellow prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I learned from other prisoners that in some camps they tattooed your number on your arm,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Loli then recounts how Ester rushed at her with an ironing board and chased her into the stairwell of their building, knocking her against the wall and holding her there like a prisoner. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask for Henek, but the guard isn’t much bothered whether I talk to the prisoners or not. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From what he had gathered, this was a disgraced prisoner from Efrafa—not even a member of the Owsla, apparently—and he had just said that he felt exhausted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Except on days when I shave new prisoners, I cut the hair of SS officers and guards and and give them shaves,” he said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Theon walked up and down before the prisoners, studying the faces. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone direct to Mr. Jaggers at his private house, on my arrival over night, to retain his assistance, and Mr. Jaggers on the prisoner’s behalf would admit nothing. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of the Nazis struck him with a club, but instead of taking the beating meekly the prisoner raised his arms and grabbed the stick. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Prince Cardan is my prisoner,” I remind them, pacing back and forth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Go get onto the transport boat next to us and wait for me there. I’ll bring the prisoner with me in a minute.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As a result, political prisoners were recruited to work in the kitchen for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was a knock on the door, and in came four guards and one hundred American prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was ... not so simple as that. Lord Karstark slew two prisoners, my lady. Unarmed boys, squires in a cell.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A mass of men was coming down the road, unarmed, unspiked, no rifles visible: prisoners. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Hitler and the Nazi SS who ran the concentration camps had convinced the German guards that Jewish prisoners were subhumans and that all prisoners, Jewish or not, deserved this brutish treatment. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were supposed to be standing in orderly lines, too, but the children had run up to the gate to wait for the Governor's boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The guards, most of them probationary prisoners, were not much better off. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

With so many prisoners dying, disposal of bodies was a big problem. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the prisoner protested, the knee would dig deeper into his back. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, the cook struck the prisoner’s can with the soup ladle, spilling the watery contents on the muddy ground. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Filthy toothless creatures in oversized, soiled prisoner uniforms. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Guards grabbed the boy and dragged him to the front of our lines, where the Nazis had built a gallows for hanging prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he was making his way back to his bed, he passed the room he’d been taken to as a prisoner the night he’d tried to escape Regalia. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All eight pardoned prisoners were either women or minors! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks — all of whom were common-law prisoners — kept the best food for themselves or their friends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jail contains six cells; the sixth, the one reserved for female prisoners, is actually an isolated unit situated inside the Sheriff’s Residence—indeed, it adjoins the Meiers’ kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners saying a chorale, they sing in parts, and it sounds almost as if there were no voices, but an organ far away on the moor. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quick brutality of police and prisoners frightened him and drove him away from the gatherings of tramps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was troublesome, maybe, to escort the prisoners into the station to make the calls, but wouldn’t the calls end up relieving the prison of at least some of the jailed? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After the war ended, the Japanese and Italian prisoners of war interned at the Greenbrier went home, but Howard Vaughan stayed on, continuing his summer work at the grand hotel alongside Joshua Coleman. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the drunks were so violent that the other prisoners had to combine to suppress them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His story was vetted and scrutinized by former prisoners and guards from the camps, as well as by human rights lawyers, South Korean journalists, and other experts with extensive knowledge of the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My dad brought home our living money, and we were his prisoners. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The agreement also set forth target dates for the release of political prisoners and the granting of certain types of indemnity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clerical error early in the war, when food was still getting through to prisoners, had caused the Red Cross to ship them five hundred parcels every month instead of fifty. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over his shoulder, Fabian the Weasel says, “Don’t talk to the prisoners.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There is a tradition on death row in Alabama that, at the time scheduled for the execution, the condemned prisoners bang on their cell doors with cups in protest. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Roscuro, reader, told the princess about the prisoner who had once owned a red tablecloth, and the princess saw to it that the prisoner was released. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Such sessions were delicate, as my fellow prisoners knew that the authorities would attempt to influence me to call off the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take our prisoner to the cells and hand her over to Otrera’s guards. And, Kinzie, be sure you leave before anything unfortunate happens. I don’t want my loyal followers held accountable for a prison break.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The boxcar was about four feet off the ground, and prisoners had to walk down a shaky wooden plank with a bag as heavy as a man on their shoulders. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now I am officially a prisoner, I thought. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My companion and I dropped the boy to the ground as quickly as we could, and before I could thank him he disappeared into the crowd of prisoners huddling together for warmth as they slept. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the prisoners crept to the door and peeked outside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Płaszów was frequently chaotic as construction continued and new prisoners arrived daily. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Fischer claimed that at sixty-one he was the oldest prisoner in the center and therefore deserved more deference. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a photograph of a ghostly bunch of young prisoners, heads bowed, as El Jefe wagged his finger at them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On Christmas night the general led a surprise attack on Trenton. He beat the Hessians—killed a handful and took more than nine hundred prisoner.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were all cuffed and had black sacks over their heads. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the prisoner in front of Jack held out his can, the cook eyed him and then put some thin soup from the top of the kettle in it. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guards stripped off her clothes in front of the prisoners. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meaningless words that didn’t nourish us, that didn’t comfort us, that kept us prisoners in her alphabet world. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed like an old-time prisoner, complete with a ball and chain around one foot. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The former double agent now morphed into the model prisoner, charming the Scrubs' guards and administrators and making friends among its inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For every dead prisoner, there were a dozen to take his place. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the prisoner’s side, there was a row of five cubicles with small square pieces of glass that looked out on identical cubicles on the other side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then summarized our complaints, beginning with the central and most important one, that we were political prisoners, not criminals, and that we should be treated as such. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer at the desk took us to a windowless room where we waited for a long time, far too hot, and I, for one, began to feel like a prisoner myself. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

All prisoners in Chattana were tattooed with the name of their prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He, too, stared at the prisoner, and observed that a cluster of veins had appeared in his left temple. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tío Pepe said that one thing all these famous prisoners found while they were locked up was that it was important to keep a schedule so as not to go crazy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

All political prisoners, or what the authorities called “security prisoners,” were automatically classified as D on admission. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners had not yet woken up. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Attempted Sabotage of Poitou River Bridge on Tours-Poitiers Road, with intention of stopping German military bus carrying 24 French and Allied prisoners—Wed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” Gregor mumbled, confused, because she was throwing his prisoner status off balance. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The warder was quite crude, but he soon began to relax a bit around this one prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were tied to pillars of marvellous pork. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the generosity of my visitors I had an embarrassment of riches and wanted to share my food with the other prisoners on my floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while views of the surrounding mountains and deserts were spectacular, the army built high fences around the entire lab—making the scientists feel like prisoners. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz pulled them on, then limped to the holding area with the rest of the prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Powers's new prison cell, which he shared with a political prisoner from Latvia, was even smaller than his previous one. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes grasp at the prisoners corralled behind the soldiers, locking on each row, desperately scanning for sky-colored material. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Occasionally when a truck jolted there was a clank-clank of metal: all the prisoners were wearing leg irons. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The other half were told that they were to be prisoners. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are no visitors. You may not bring food, and I will not tell you the names of any prisoners in this camp!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Only then did Wylan remove the prisoners’ hoods: four men, one of them quite old, a middle-aged woman, and a Shu boy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would have been one thing if all MDR prisoners had died while incarcerated, but many got released after serving their sentences. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We had walked and been trucked and been taken by train so many times to so many new horrible places that some of the prisoners were reluctant to go. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am his prisoner, in the backseat, trapped by child locks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was also impossible to know how many innocent people picked up the bacteria from the prisoners on these stops. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The authorities normally preferred to have a ratio of one warder for every three prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any municipal jail, he figured, expects many of their prisoners to leave within a day or two, through bonds or dropped charges or any number of outcomes for the small-time offender. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When a conservative majority took power in Congress in 1994, legal aid to death row prisoners became a political target, and federal funding was quickly eliminated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Trout certainly looked like a prisoner of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first stipulation was that there could be no physical contact between white and black prisoners, and between male and female prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could already see two differing philosophies among the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the other prisoners tensing around me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like I was wearing one of those prisoner leg bracelet thingies that’d send a signal to Mom and Dad the second I got within a quarter mile of his house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shrews struck down the enemy guards as Sparra braves released the prisoners’ bonds with short slashes of their sharp beaks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In exchange, Le Duc Tho agreed to a cease-fire and the return of American prisoners of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A murmur of surprise went through the prisoners around us, but Moonface silenced them with a glare. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I can hear is “violation of the Geneva Convention” and “prisoners of war.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Their assignment was to guard one hundred American prisoners of war, who would work as contract labor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter—Zeitoun could see now the crew was from Spain—conducted an interview with the prisoner, and then, after a few minutes, he approached Zeitoun with the microphone and began to ask a question. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the authorities supplied the detainees with what they called an Improved Diet: Africans received bread, while Indians and Coloureds received the same food provided to white prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the barge reached the warship, Arnold climbed aboard and had the bargemen arrested as prisoners of war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We resolved that in the interest of unity, each individual along the passageway would inform any visitor that while everyone had individual complaints, the prisoner in number 18 would speak for all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as the SIM admitted they were in custody, our prisoners stood less of a chance of being disappeared. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are ready to break down the jail if they must to get to the prisoner. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked the length of the hold, then came to a halt in front of the prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I can have you court-martialed for this, Corporal. She is a prisoner, and in this facility, I am the law.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By leaving the same prisoners stationed at the latrine, the one place we all had to go throughout the day, they gave us secret postmen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Camp fever” was what everyone called the typhus that spread like fire throughout the ranks of prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day as I went into the latrine with another prisoner, I heard the watchman whisper, “Tonight.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the morning, prisoners didn't wake up. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, would you?” said Lancelot “I only had to pretend I was not myself, and I could have had the prisoners sate. But you try to kill me without warning.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through blurred vision, he saw two prisoners removing the body of the man on his left, who had just died. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Routine is also comforting for the prisoner, which is why it can be a trap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years we'd been fearing what would happen when a sizable number of condemned prisoners exhausted their appeals. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The train had arrived on a siding by a prison which was originally constructed as an extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and saw that down the line of cages, more prisoners were being sprayed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Selections during roll call to eliminate the weakest and most unhealthy prisoners became even more frequent. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Commanding officers do not usually pick up prisoners at the hospital, so my suspicions were immediately aroused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did the work of overseeing the prisoners, while the guards stood at a distance or stayed up in the watchtowers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we weren’t prisoners, this place would feel peaceful. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Always the procedure was the same: a prisoner would be removed from his cage and dragged to the ground nearby, in full view of the rest of the prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As Voldemort’s anger throbbed inside him, Harry’s scar threatened to burst with pain, and he wrenched his mind back to his own body, fighting to remain present as the prisoners were pushed over gravel. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They're just way stations before the prisoners are taken out of the country, to other camps with foreign-sounding names, to places where healthy young men may die of mysterious illnesses. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I'm her prisoner until she delivers me to the camp. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Though for the moment they weren’t acting as if they were going to harm him, Jonathan recalled stories he had heard about what happened to prisoners. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach clenching, Celaena averted her eyes from the prisoners, keeping up with the captain as they headed to a caravan of horses near the towering wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He clearly knew something about tying up prisoners. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That was one of the Maine prisoners. Don’t let me forget.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We undressed the prisoners and tied them until their chests were tight as drums. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsen- hausen concentration camp. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Held prisoner by lunatics who could now be as bad off as the one he’d just seen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The prisoner’s ankles are cuffed and his arms bound from wrists to forearms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of prisoners jostled one another at the door. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burden of feeding and guarding a prisoner was not something the expedition could afford to do. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The guards will take us to the countryside and kill us, several prisoners declared. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

One morning at roll call, I was one of fifty prisoners pulled out of the ranks and loaded onto a truck. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand back and forth as if to indicate he was speaking about all the prisoners on the hall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On April 12, 1945, when the German guards fled from the Red Army as it approached the concentration camp, Nina and her fellow prisoners cut the lock off the gate and let themselves out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Under the direction of an older bear, the human prisoners were building a shelter out of driftwood and scraps of canvas. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the women saw their prisoner uniforms, they swarmed around them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was only when the first young prisoners who had been involved in the June 16 uprising began to arrive on Robben Island in August that we learned what truly happened. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warders’ lunch boxes were known as “suitcases” and normally a warder would designate a prisoner, usually his favorite, to carry his “suitcase,” and then reward him with half a sandwich. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as angry as I was at the Nazis, I was even angrier at my fellow prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another time he came to tell Ana Diaz that he needed a volunteer to wash one of the prisoners’ clothes and clean out his cell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three years the stormclouds disappeared while the Gambler held them prisoners. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I stepped in front of the prisoner who was to shave me, he just laughed and motioned me on. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Do we have phones in our trailers? Even prisoners are allowed phone calls,” I say. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Even the students, many of whom were former prisoners, wore the same uniforms as they had before, with new patches over the pockets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Judge Corbett then turned to the others and said, ‘The prisoner is quite right.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were political prisoners who formed the camp's underground resistance. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There weren’t enough people worried about the well-being of prisoners to really make sure. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the slaves were prisoners of war—rebels who survived the butchering blocks and endless lines of Adarlan’s armies. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

During those first few months, breakfast was delivered to us in our cells by prisoners from the general section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family needs a nurse, not a prisoner. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But often, they simply force the prisoners to walk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But since he stopped snitching, he had become increasingly intolerant of prisoners who continued to inform on their neighbors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The policeman turned to appraise his prisoner in the backseat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she caught a glimpse of the grand hallway where she had, until recently, been a prisoner. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Rose Winslow, another of the hunger strikers, smuggled a statement out of the jail with a prisoner who was being released. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But for the first hour, while the new prisoners got acquainted with their new cells, there was much yelling from the guards about where and how to stand and sit, what not to touch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Jude here made me her prisoner,” he says, and I have to fight down the urge to step heavily on his foot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yet as an American deserter, Jenkins was much more than a prisoner. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They are national holidays in North Korea, and even in a no-exit labor camp, prisoners get the day off. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and prayed the bullets wouldn’t find me, trembling as prisoners were hit and fell dead to the ground all around me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

This place held him prisoner more securely than any jail cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The Court's rulings had become increasingly hostile to death row prisoners and less committed to the notion that "death is different," requiring more careful review. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The new prisoners looked at one another hopefully. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large majority of the prisoners were Jewish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hirohito’s father was what Sister Mukumbu called a “freedom fighter” and a “political prisoner.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, they set her afire, and in this way, Elowen’s prisoners built her funeral pyre. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They will shoot him in a day or two,” a prisoner whispered to Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A greeting from a peer, not a plea from a prisoner. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each prisoner was required to have the three buttons of his khaki jacket properly buttoned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boxlike houses seemed so drab to me that I even felt sorry for the demons who lived in them, for they lived like prisoners without knowing they were in a prison. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a stumbling, broken run, the prisoner threw himself on the high-voltage electric barbed wire that lined the fence. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His collar was unlocked, and he was led from the wagon down some kind of ramp with the other prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had been a prisoner, a snitch, a fugitive, and a thief, but never an employee. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He is left behind with a few other prisoners to carry off the wounded. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a drop in the number of those detained without trial and of deaths of political prisoners while under police custody. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Receiving an affirmative nod, the prisoner’s spiritual adviser stepped into an adjacent room, which was crowded with expectant policemen, and elatedly issued an invitation: “Come on in. The boy’s ready to make a statement.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Precautions were taken so the prisoners couldn't escape or harm themselves. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

His only exposure to music had been on the farm, when trucks with loudspeakers played martial music while prisoners picked weeds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Ah! But the stonecutter did not die!” the prisoner said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners, his father had told him, were hanged as rebels. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Both North and South Vietnam interrogated prisoners in an attempt to gain military information. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The prisoner who had fought back crumpled to the ground, dead from a bullet to the brain, and the assaulted officer was hurried away from the assembly grounds. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to pass messages on to our captain. He’ll be able to get word out of the city. Some of the other womenfolk who bring food to the prisoners are helping in this manner.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had always been a prisoner, but not like this. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We demanded that all political prisoners be in one category. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded him that he was a prisoner. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A while before, African prisoners had begun to receive bread in the morning, but that made little difference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a prisoner, Sophie counted the days until she would be free. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After struggling for years, he became a model prisoner and trustee. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This started what became a kind of correspondence course with the prisoners in the general section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a place where prisoners were shot over the pits they had dug for themselves, and I said a silent prayer of thanks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

While everyone knows that prison can warp or distort the personalities of prisoners, few stop to consider how it can do the same to those who work inside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain told him to bring everybody, cooks and prisoners, sick-call people. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While some of the prisoners were people accused of attempting to practice magic—not that they could, given that magic had vanished from the kingdom—these days, more and more rebels arrived at Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’m trained not to take the word of a prisoner—I know that they’ll He, that they’ll say anything they can to make you vulnerable. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I would like very much to torture a prisoner,” said Roscuro. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

For the prisoner was not as unconcerned as he appeared to be, or as resigned; he intended taking every step possible to avoid “a ride on the Big Swing.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camp had a granite quarry, where many prisoners lost their lives. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, prisoners got the thin soup and the foul bread, but portions grew smaller and smaller. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A special guard surrounded the prisoners and took them to the jail at a trot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The authorities also moved some young political prisoners from the PAC into the cells opposite ours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally arrived and fluttered back through the terrace door, she saw the ghosts standing guard and remembered with a start that she was a prisoner. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners who didn’t have the strength to jostle, or even to stand, sat down in the snow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also remembered that people were prisoners of the fog, too. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fjerdan guards were gesturing over their papers, trying to make the numbers and identities of the prisoners match up to the group before them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The young prisoner responded, “Why do you have this regulation? What is the purpose of it?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November 1926, when a reporter wrote to White fishing for gossip about Hale, White refused to provide any, insisting that Hale would be “treated as other prisoners are treated.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A prisoner assisting the doctor gave Jack a bitter solution of coal ground up with water to drink. he whispered. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bembry, the older prisoner across the line from me, happens to catch my eye. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On it is a list of prisoners’ names and their corresponding room numbers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“The body odor of other prisoners also was horrible. Everything in this camp stunk and was filthy.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Any day now,” prisoners whispered among one another, “the Allies will be in Berlin, and we will be set free.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The new prisoners kept their distance from us veteran prisoners as we were herded toward the main gate. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The British promised each prisoner would receive two pounds of pork and hardtack biscuit every week. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

War prisoners, criminals, debtors, and orphans could be forced into labor. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after this conversation between Botticelli and Roscuro, a prisoner did arrive. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thus, the choice of whether to praise or to pan is something of a prisoner’s dilemma. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners follow, carrying suitcases, disheveled and tired like they haven't slept in days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Party prisoners were always silent and terrified, but the ordinary criminals seemed to care nothing for anybody. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The woman bowed her head and then looked up at the gathering of prisoners, smiling an awful warning. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what good would it do me if I was still a prisoner? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

By now Raleigh was familiar with some of the judges and administrators working to process the post-storm prisoners being kept at Hunt. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners were doing whatever they could to ignore me, just like I ignored them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the archers remained by the prisoners. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The protocol at Angola was to release prisoners at midnight and give them bus fare to New Orleans or a city of their choice in Louisiana. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As they were led through an arch on the left, Kaz glimpsed Inej disappearing into the opposite arch with the other female prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were always prisoners who couldn’t get out of bed again, who had become Muselmanners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hardship station not only for the prisoners but for the prison staff. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one prisoner from each pavilion will be interviewed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said they put prisoners in the rabbit pen? Where’d the rabbits go?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After the room where we were tattooed, we were taken to another room with a huge pile of old, used prisoner uniforms, and told to find something that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rice wandered about, stared at the prisoners, wandered back, hands behind him, peered at Chamberlain, shook his head. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a prisoner of war, he was sent first to the United States and then to England. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

These they heaped against the trunk on the far side of the tree from the prisoners. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few of the prisoners stepped to the side so I could see a bundle of rags on the floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore he was not technically a Hunt prisoner, and so was not bound by the institution’s standard operating procedure. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On this occasion the king released political prisoners, remitted taxes, endowed temples, forgave rebels, increased military preparedness and, in short, did all the things that modern rulers do when they wish to stay in office. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Named after a woman who promoted the education of prisoners and championed humane conditions of confinement, Tutwiler has become an overcrowded, dangerous nightmare for the women trapped there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is recorded that they killed prisoners but they were no better nor worse than the English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There are still a few left—abandoned, of course, but it shouldn’t be too hard to restore one to house a single prisoner. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Food had become so scarce that each prisoner was issued a monthly meal ticket, which was punched when he went through the food line to prevent the possibility of someone going through the line twice. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The four men had spent a sleepless night in an outdoor cage and did not have the energy to make much conversation, but this new prisoner more than filled the silence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Corkhill ordered the jail warden to put Guiteau in a cell away from other prisoners and to forbid him from talking with the guards. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had some seven hundred prisoners under his command, and they all loved him like a brother. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that as political prisoners we saw protest to alter prison conditions as an extension of the antiapartheid struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The prisoner has been tried according to the established forms of law.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were overcoats taken from prisoners who were dead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at the moment, she told them, a virtual prisoner on an island ruled over by the nymph Calypso, who loved him and planned never to let him go. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visits were a maximum of thirty minutes long, and political prisoners were not permitted contact visits, in which the visitor and prisoner were in the same room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are prisoners. It is obvious the emperor does not keep many. He prefers to send them to work or have them killed.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was done by the brothers of the tortured prisoners Poppy met all the time, or the cousin of the mayor who lost both legs when the Israelis blew up his car. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But seeing those bugs in a jar reminds me of Shiloh all chained up at Judd’s, a prisoner as sure as those bugs. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew the prisoners were going to be taken for execution. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The tenth rule of Camp 14 said that a prisoner “must truly” consider each guard as his teacher. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The majority of them were common criminals, but there were a few political prisoners among them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was wide-awake, and he knew he was a prisoner in one of those sleepless, bedridden nights that would take an eternity to dissolve into dawn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In all my years of visiting prisons, I had never seen such small cages used to hold a prisoner inside a secure prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But prisoners are resourceful and I was soon receiving secret notes and other communications from some of the ANC people there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely it was a dream. not far from us, prisoners were at work. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early Saturday morning, on August 8, the prisoners were told their fate. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of prisoners at Plaszów, most wearing a yellow Star of David on their uniforms to show they were Jews. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners I had glimpsed that morning were working nearby. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on,” said the old man as he held out the cloth to the prisoner, “take it. 'You’11 need every last bit of warmth down here.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the war ends it is found that his Second Corps captured more prisoners, more colors, and suffered more casualties than the entire rest of the Army of the Potomac. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner in the cell nearest to them started to shout. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Leave your weapons here,” he told the prisoners. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To prevent such outbursts, the authorities reversed the normal order of the prisoners preceding the judge into the courtroom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides this, they had used every means to spare themselves and their soldiers fear and hardship, not killing each other in their scuffles, but instead taking each other prisoner without demanding ransom. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In about a week, all ten prisoners who had been washing with the liquid developed boils on their skin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because the hospital cells were off limits to the general population, we had a number of traveling prisoners stay with us. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He couldn't understand some of the hostile and violent behavior he saw from prisoners and the other people around him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Being held hostage—suddenly finding yourself prisoner on a volatile inmate- run Death Row—could damage a person in fundamental ways. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leading citizens—innocent people—are taken prisoner to await their execution. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Some men refuse to rise and are left sleeping, soon to become Union prisoners. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“No need to tell us he’s no good,” snorted Uncle Vernon, staring over the top of his newspaper at the prisoner. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The prisoners’ replies were like a refrain: “I done a girl a great injustice, and I think it’ll pay back a little bit what I did to her.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With them was the prisoner from the last camp whom Moniek had kicked out of the kitchen. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only people around were the mute living skeletons—my fellow prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the Den even prisoners ate porridge in the morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Germans sorted out the prisoners according to rank. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably didn't want the level of violence and sex among both prisoners and guards to be documented. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The lieutenants words still echoed in my head: “From now on, we kill any rebel we see, no prisoners.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Despite Farmer being upbeat with the prisoners, and the heroic efforts of the Russian medical staff, he and Goldfarb knew things were not getting better. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They worked it out before they left: Amy brings June and Henry back to the alley they have him swap cars like a political prisoner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

You see, your father was a naval surgeon, a prisoner of war while here in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ten prisoners surrounded him, clinging to his clothes: “Save us! You promised . . . We want to go to the depot, we are strong enough to work. We are good workers. We can ... we want. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if they saw me, they might take me along with them as their prisoner. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gangs of Hungarian prisoners seemed to control the camp—and the guards did nothing. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man was black, in his sixties, and watching him interact with the prisoners down the row, it was clear he was a man of God. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jewish prisoners who spoke Yiddish could understand enough German because of similarities in the languages. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that after my hand became infected they had taken me to a secret clinic where they send the prisoners they don’t want to die. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We see another prisoner and lawyer enter the room. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Courts are deeply resistant to reviewing claims once a condemned prisoner has completed the appeals process the first time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Wormtail,” said Voldemort, with no change in his quiet, thoughtful tone, and without removing his eyes from the revolving body above, “have I not spoken to you about keeping our prisoner quiet?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"He's more use alive than dead. And my lord father never condoned the murder of prisoners after a battle." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was like one of those terrible dogs the Nazis used for hunting down concentration camp prisoners who escaped in those old TV pictures. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youthful count of St Pol had been taught the arts of war by being given twenty-four living prisoners to slaughter in various ways, for practice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marriage was dangled in front of prisoners as the ultimate bonus for hard work and reliable snitching. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The new prisoners were appalled by what they considered the barbaric conditions of the island, and said they could not understand how we could live in such a way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slabs and chunks of marble were transported on carts that were pushed and pulled by prisoners up and down the steep hillside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lay him upon the cart, tied the prisoner’s rope to the axle, and drew them along after us in our dismal parade. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She was never afterward sure whether that passenger had traveled as a prisoner under guard or a liability under protection. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, prisoners will simply starve themselves to death and no one will know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for prisoners too,” she said, her face sad. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After we were all given uniforms, we were marched to the Plaszów tailor shop by another prisoner wearing a yellow armband. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a D Group prisoner, I was entided to have only one visitor, and to write and receive only one letter, every six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every week, at least a dozen prisoners committed suicide by hurling themselves into the pit,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fear of the deafening, evil noise held us prisoners. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have now been a prisoner for at least a week. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They prodded the prisoners with cutlass points and slapped out with flat blades at the helpless defenders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Suicide, prisoner-on-prisoner violence, inadequate medical care, staff abuse, and guard violence claimed the lives of hundreds of prisoners every year. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The prisoners showed up in all kinds of strange garb; it looked like a masquerade. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cherokees fled, abandoning their towns and fields, the attackers seized, killed, and scalped women and children, taking no prisoners. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, many of the prisoners at the camp were eventually sent to Auschwitz or other extermination camps. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I have heard many stories about how the soldiers kill prisoners and then dump their bodies into large graves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And more and more prisoners kept coming, from every block, suddenly able to overcome time and space, to will both into submission. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With all due respect, ma’am,” the man said with a smile, “the rebels would first have to capture a prisoner. Given their blunders, it is an unlikely prospect.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new prisoners would learn soon enough, and they would accept the truth or they would die. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

What also kept many from trying to escape was knowing that even if they succeeded, many fellow prisoners would be killed in retribution. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Greyback forced the prisoners to turn again so as to place Harry directly beneath the chandelier. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was still a prisoner, for starters, with Minya’s army preventing her from leaving her room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Burger was confined to a crowded cell with sixty other prisoners. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“They were white prisoners. They had never been questioned by a native prisoner in the presence of a white officer before.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was incarcerated, her lawyer could file a writ of habeas corpus, which gives prisoners the right to challenge their imprisonment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Will you two shut up about food?” a prisoner near us yelled at last. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But on our way we met some prisoners who whispered to us: “Go back to your block. The Germans plan to shoot you. Go back and don’t move.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cubans slaughtered 200 invaders in the ensuing battle and took 1,200 prisoner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t walk these hallways without remembering the days I spent as a prisoner here, barefoot, pain pulsing inside me every time I moved. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It had a steel divider running along the center, segregating the white prisoners from the Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were getting scores of letters from prisoners who continued to complain about horrible conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They liked Anatole, and apologized that they had to support their families on the handful of coins or rice they got when Mobutu’s deputies came by to count the prisoners each morning. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the nation’s first prison boom and, as they are today, those taken prisoner were disproportionately black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The other white prisoner was a boy not more than fifteen years of age. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe they cheered for Nzila, who was now a known political prisoner. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there numbly watching the naked prisoners with their hands on their heads being lined up in the yard, poked with rifles, and shoved around by troops who behaved like Nazis. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Somewhere behind us another prisoner had fallen too far behind, and the Nazis had shot him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

German prisons everywhere were absolutely full, and there was no longer any food for the prisoners to eat, and no longer any fuel to keep them warm. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a surprising extent the ordinary criminals ignored the Party prisoners. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We set the thatched roofs on fire and left, taking the prisoners with us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At first Joe was very excited by all the attention his case was generating, but then the guards and other prisoners started making fun of him and treating him more harshly than usual. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Three times, Dedd and Mama and Jaimito had been down to headquarters, only to be told that there was no record of our prisoners. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were prisoners packed in all around me—roll call had long since ended, and it was the middle of the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bonds of friendship and loyalty with other prisoners count for nothing with the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the group finally headed back to camp, two prisoners helped the injured man. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was hurtling through the sky at what he thought to be 160 miles an hour, headed— he didn’t know where—just headed somewhere until... Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw pikemen strike down sentries of the enemy at the town gate and take prisoner the Welsh guards. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“She’s only the bait, and as soon as you’ve swallowed it the pair of you will be Capricorn's prisoners—for the rest of your lives, most likely.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t see it,” said the one who’d taken us prisoner at the depot. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Three days later, the prisoner hands him a manila envelope. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so silly for Bonello to have decided to be taken prisoner. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning, the Americans take the chateau and the last anti-air battery and free the prisoners held at Fort National. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One day the Nazis gave two prisoners the chance. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are the captured prisoners, three or four abreast, filing into the theater. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We regarded it as our duty to stay in touch with our men in F and G, which was where the general prisoners were kept. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, feeling very anxious, they made their way to their prisoner's apartment to feed his deserted tortoise. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You must reckon,” he said, “that the Germans will in no circumstances take any prisoners.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a convicted prisoner, serving five years for leaving the country without a permit and for inciting people to go on strike at the end of May 1961. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By two or three in the morning, most of the prisoners were asleep, and those who remained awake with Zeitoun were quiet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“They’ll get you too, if you don't hurry! Move yourself, vole. You’ll be no good to your family as a prisoner again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The three German soldiers organized themselves so that they were always facing in different directions, and one of them always kept a gun trained on the prisoners. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No, the words that haunted Pong were the ones the Governor had spoken in his ear as the prisoners began their song. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Did you go and see the prisoners hanged yesterday?” said Syme. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Once political prisoners were in the kitchen, our diet improved dramatically. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Common-law prisoners were used to dish out the food to us and we would return to our cells to eat it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way the sacred mission of the Triple Alliance became translated into a secular mission: to obtain prisoners to sacrifice for the sun, the Alliance had to take over the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It can be imagined what effect Rocinante had on two hundred teenage prisoners of education just settling down to serve their winter sentence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The meaning of life,” said Botticelli, “is suffering, specifically the suffering of others. Prisoners, for instance. Reducing a prisoner to weeping and wailing and begging is a delightful way to invest your existence with meaning. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Meggie," whispered Mo. “Let's go over to the prisoners, shall we? Poor Elinor looks exhausted, and there's someone else I want to introduce to you." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sixty-five prisoners—murderers, embezzlers, robbers, and forgers— lined up on wooden benches for their injections. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

All the prisoners had been transported to a larger prison facility in Daejeon. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“This is creepy! The window’s nailed shut.What are you, some kind of prisoner?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At midnight, while all the other prisoners banged away, Myers curled up on the floor in the corner of his cell, hyperventilating and flinching with each clang he heard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A guard handcuffs him, leads him to a green prisoner transport van. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

On occasion, Shin and Uncle could hear the screams and moans of a prisoner being tortured. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The prisoners will remain silent unless spoken to,” the kapo told us, and he struck a man in the back with his club. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A long while later they divided the prisoners into groups, according to their guilt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gibbon said, “He lost half his strength. Most of them got taken prisoner. He’s mad as a hornet, lookin’ for somebody to blame it on. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You destroyed my home. You made my sister and me exiles and prisoners.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But certain things had made his jailers more wary of him than of other prisoners they’d had. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the first few years on the island, the High Organ also acted as a representative committee for all the political prisoners in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind seizes on her words like a prisoner grasping for pardon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was more than a man like Mord could hope to earn in a lifetime of abusing prisoners. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That prisoner slept on the same dormitory floor and worked in the factory as a garment cutter, a job that allowed him to accumulate scraps of fabric, which he traded for food and other goods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I mentioned that my new accommodations were superior, and maybe this would set a precedent for all political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1967 there were more than a hundred American prisoners held in camps in and around Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I remember hearing stories about what the Congs did to prisoners. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men thrust the prisoner into the chair, and tied his hands behind his back and his legs together. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foremen in the factory, who were prisoners chosen by guards for their toughness, generally looked the other way when seamstresses were beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Can you speak on behalf of other prisoners here?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But we would support any strike of prisoners for whatever reason they were striking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin and his mother lived in the best prisoner quarters Camp 14 had to offer: a “model village” next to an orchard and just across from the field where his mother was later hanged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It is not easy for a prisoner on Robben Island to defend himself in court, but that is precisely what I intended to do. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were five prisoners and many eager participants. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Volkheimer stands and waits, big man against big man, and always the prisoner caves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you did not want to be a prisoner?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the day of my hearing he was supposed to sit with me and tell the judges that I had stayed out of trouble, had a good job, and was a model prisoner. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When at last the man tying them had walked away, Harry whispered to the other prisoners. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When he acted out with bug-eyed astonishment the moment Daniel’s captors looked down and saw their prisoner lounging around in the pit with his arm around the head of a big lion, I laughed appreciatively. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since Gitmo is leased land from Cuba, the prisoners are not on U.S. soil, so they are not covered by the U.S. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Life, as the historian Hugh Tinker noted, was like being a prisoner on parole. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Shin is still a prisoner,” said Andy Kim, a young Korean American who helped run LiNK and who, for a time, was Shin’s closest confidant. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As he crawled across the tablecloth, he remembered the words of the prisoner in the dungeon, his regret that he did not look back at his daughter as he left her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The Court orders the prisoner to sit down,” Justice Hunt said with increased frustration. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Me and the other prisoners who’d been acting tough with one another—the second he walked in our tough-guy routines were over. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Enormously. They take nearly a thousand prisoners. It’s in the bulletin. Didn’t you see it?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ten prisoners were seated along benches that ran the wagon’s length, their wrists and feet shackled, black sacks over their heads. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One hour had passed since they’d knocked out the prisoners in the holding area. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The spymaster sat back and crossed his legs, looking at his two prisoners with faint amusement. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In Pyongyang, the weary prisoners were confined with several hundred others in an abandoned school building, where they remained for nearly two months. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Auschwitz prisoners in charge of crowd control organized us into a single-file line. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stood in silence for a few minutes, weapons still pointed at our prisoners. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I think you are bluffing—you have been prisoner for months and I myself killed you less than a day ago, so I doubt that you have much might left in your arm.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him, prisoners thrust their cans toward the cook, who filled them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Horan went over the failure of the strategic hamlet, the land mine, and being taken prisoner. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Our documents,” one of the other prisoners told me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, at the jail, a prisoner pulled a knife and stabbed his father from behind. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Many of the prisoners, though, had been driven to a desperate act—often, something violent and despicable—and afterward they were penitent, seeking redemption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When I signed up for this internship, I hadn't given much thought to the fact that I would actually be meeting condemned prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That night, for the first time in Jack’s experience, the prisoners were locked in their barracks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the commandant had pulled seventy-five prisoners out of our lines, he had them marched to the other side of the tracks and ordered his soldiers to shoot them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This lasted only a couple of months, but it helped me keep going. If it was more than a scrap of food, I shared it with other prisoners. They did the same with me.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

As one of the general prisoners wheeled a drum of food toward us, he whispered, “Verwoerd is dead.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So how many rebel prisoners did your men bag, Colonel?” asked Master Lockton. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were confiscating the two vehicles registered under a prisoner’s name. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day we played a game called prisoner's base, which was all running and shouting and shoving and catching. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later two men walked in, handcuffed him, and led him before an officer who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another prisoner, another Czech farther along the line, joined him, and then another behind me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan had a memory too that some prisoners were sold into slavery, or sent to distant places, never allowed to come home. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some twenty prisoners were waiting in line at the entrance. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made some of the prisoners be the boxers and forced the rest of us to watch. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would not steal bread from another living prisoner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After that he could organize lessons under the courtyard’s scabby mango, teaching literacy to any guard or fellow prisoner who felt like improving himself on a given day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazi in charge of our truck unloaded us, and we joined another group of prisoners who’d been brought in from somewhere else. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners were already awake, their hands and arms wrapped in rags sticking through the bars of the window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was highly unusual; the commanding officer did not generally pay calls on prisoners in their cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steps aside and lets the prisoners pass one by one through the recreation yard door until only the guard is left. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are now my prisoner. Do exactly as I say or you’ll regret it! ” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They would enable prisoners to make an escape attempt, An said, and shoot them before they reached the fences that surround the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The kapo hit him again as the other prisoner pulled me away. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z