Sentence examples for a prisoner for from inspiring English sources

Two years ago, congregants attended midnight vigils outside the prison where Connecticut executed a prisoner for the first time in 45 years.

A10 McCain Visits 'Hanoi Hilton' Senator John McCain took his teen-age son to see the prison where Mr. McCain was a prisoner for more than five years during the Vietnam War, which ended 25 years ago.

(He's also been a prisoner for eleven years, and he was waterboarded in a secret prison).

As a prisoner for 20 years, I recall only too well that our prisons have always been places of deprivation and misery with the odd pocket of hope.

Bergdahl has been a prisoner for years.

I was a prisoner for a year and a half.

but captured him and kept him a prisoner for the rest of his life.

The United States protested his treatment, but Gross languished as a prisoner for five years.

Hijackers of an Indian Airlines commercial flight won Mr. Sheikh's release on Dec. 31, 1999, in a prisoner-for-passengers exchange.

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela canceled a five-nation tour of Africa this week in order to visit Colombia and take part in negotiations on Friday to try to bring about a prisoner-for-hostage swap between the government of President Álvaro Uribe and the guerrilla group know as FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said.

Why spend tax money on "three hots and a cot" for a prisoner jailed for a victimless crime?