Sentence examples for makeshift prison from inspiring English sources

Halliburton rented Kavanagh's Island, likely on the suggestion of Governor John Wentworth, and by June 1795 had sent 70 sick and wounded prisoners to its makeshift prison hospital.

The F.B.I. came away with sketched diagrams of the makeshift prison, including the room where prisoners had slept and the guards' toilet.

The experiment was relatively simple: a group of students were assigned to be either prisoners or guards in a makeshift prison.

Several prisoners were able to escape from the makeshift prison, and the rest were sent to Guernsey in June 1794.

Most notoriously, General Dostum has been accused of allowing thousands of Taliban prisoners to suffocate to death in shipping containers used as makeshift prison cells after they had surrendered to his forces after the defeat of the Taliban government in 2001.

I was blindfolded in a makeshift prison, who knows where.

In response to the increase in criminal activity in New Orleans, makeshift prisons were constructed to house prisoners for short periods of time.

More than 7,000 prisoners of war languish in makeshift prisons across Libya, with access to neither lawyers nor a trial process.

The army has also created makeshift prisons where some 3,000 suspects are believed to be held, whom the army is reluctant to turn over to unreliable civilian courts.

Human rights monitors have gathered evidence that thousands of Gaddafi fighters are being held in makeshift prisons and subjected to beatings, torture and other mistreatment.

Most of these executions took place in local killing fields after a period of interrogation and torture in nearby makeshift prisons.