Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose great historical novel, August 1914, recreated the disaster of Tannenberg in exhaustive detail, described the crowds of prisoners thus: "The Germans have formed a line to comb the forest and are flushing them out like animals.
The troopers used helicopters, dropped tear gas and fired indiscriminately into a crowd of 1,281 prisoners.
In May 2005, President Islam A. Karimov's troops opened fire on a mixed crowd of escaped prisoners, gunmen and antigovernment demonstrators in a square in the Fergana Valley town of Andijon, killing hundreds in what human rights groups say was the worst massacre of street protesters since Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Still, it's Rick who has the idea of breaking into the prison, where they might find food, medicine and weapons, and taking shelter inside a locked cell block — even if it means fighting their way through crowds of infected prisoners and guards.
One day, among a crowd of skeletal, liberated prisoners, she spotted her sister and mother.
With the P.O.W. facilities at Camp Bucca, the Baghdad airport and other sites still crowded, and the processing of prisoners taking time, the Army was looking for more permanent detention quarters.
Both also said they would support contracting jail beds outside Los Angeles County to reduce crowding and early releases of prisoners.
