Sentence examples for order prisoners from inspiring English sources

The political section could order prisoners to be murdered, tortured, or released.

At Stalin's order, prisoners even built preposterous public-works projects: rail lines that cut through the forest and then were abandoned when Stalin died; dams to reverse the direction of rivers; canals that proved useless.

The pattern has become familiar: a court orders prisoners freed; the state grudgingly builds more prison beds; the problem recedes until the inmate population builds again and a new court has to step in.

They also ordered prisoners to provoke a fight with me.

Video footage showed Mr. Mladic barking orders, prisoners lining up, bodies piled up, and women and children climbing onto buses for deportation.

By his own account, Mr. Shaftari ordered prisoners to be killed and tortured during the war years, and in some cases even shot people to death himself.

A new report in the New York Times says that, according to the officer in charge of interrogations at Abu Ghraib, intelligence officers ordered prisoners to be stripped naked and shackled before interrogation.The accounts come from multiple sources, which adds to their credibility.

At one point, he said, the guards in the fake prison ordered their prisoners to strip and used a rudimentary sex joke to humiliate them.

President Leonid D. Kuchma ordered 35,000 prisoners released from prison under an amnesty approved by Parliament, spurring fears that the convicts would carry tuberculosis to the general population.

"It was an order, and prisoners didn't have the right to disagree," Mr. Brasse recalled.

The question in the case, Justice Breyer wrote, is whether judges may order the prisoners to be released here over the government's objection.