We try to engage prisoners to take part in purposeful activities, to take exercise.
Although difficult, correctional institutions must meaningfully engage prisoners, or they do more harm than good.
I and several hundred comrades were otherwise engaged — prisoners of war in the enemy's capital, where in 1969, news could travel slowly.
Staff are now instructed on the appropriate way to engage with prisoners maintaining innocence, asking for details of their claims so those who may be innocent can be identified and informed about the legal avenues open to them.
But because I was, by then, one of the CIA's most knowledgeable experts on North Vietnamese politics and strategy, it was thought I might engage the prisoners in "meaningful" discourse, albeit through translators because I spoke no Vietnamese.
Improved transition from inpatient to outpatient treatment and services that engage female prisoners to sustained outpatient treatments are needed.
Visiting almost daily for months, the team engages the prisoner in religious discussions that last for hours at a time.
Here we equip individuals with incipient cognitive abilities, and investigate the evolution of cooperation in a spatial world where retaliation, forgiveness, treason and mutualism may coexist, as individuals engage in Prisoner's Dilemma games.
There are few other opportunities for prisoners to engage with non-prisoners and be treated as a person with the capacity to make valuable contributions.
John Filostrat, director of public affairs for Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, said the military stopped providing the media with the number of prisoners who were engaging in hunger strikes because the prisoners had become too successful at attracting attention to their cause.
