Example sentences for: prisoners

How can you use “prisoners” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Attorneys working for LSC-funded programs may no longer, for example, initiate or participate in class action lawsuits, collect courtawarded attorneys' fees, represent prisoners or certain categories of aliens, or take cases involving political redistricting, abortion, or drug-related public housing evictions.

  • It seeks genuine direct elections after a period that is sufficient to organize alternative parties and prepare a campaign based on freedom of speech and other civil rights, the right to have free trade unions, the release of more than 200 political prisoners, debt relief, stronger penalties for corruption and pollution, no amnesty for Suharto and his fellow thieves, and a respite for the poor from the hardest edges of "economic reform."

  • This time out, Bennett features in large, boldfaced type the statistic, "Between 1990 and 1997, the rate of sentenced prisoners in the United States increased 50 percent."

  • If you missed the sidebar on adultery, click . If you missed the sidebar on razor-swallowing prisoners, click .

  • In "Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations," published in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1943, Bettelheim suggested that his fellow camp prisoners were soon reduced to "types of behavior which are characteristic of infancy or early youth," playing into the hands of the SS rather than standing up to them.


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