Sentence examples for prisoners from inspiring English sources

They point out that the Brotherhood leaders, most of whom had been arrested only days earlier, left jail along with 20,000 other prisoners after prison guards left their positions en masse amid the chaos of the revolution in early 2011.

He was the architect for Swaleside Prison, on the Isle of Sheppey, and managed the £80m repair and modernisation of Strangeways Prison, in Manchester, after it was badly damaged by rioting prisoners in 1990.

Prison numbers have been growing at a rate of more than 100 per week, but Clarke said he could halt the rise without letting any prisoners out before they had served their full sentence or scrapping short prison sentences.

The exclusive story described Belmarsh as a "terror prison" and ran alongside a photograph of one of its most notorious prisoners, "hate preacher" Abu Hamza, the court heard.

"The whole-life tariff is against all principles of international law as it denies any possibility of reform of rehabilitation," says Bhatt Murphy's Simon Creighton, the solicitor representing the prisoners at the European court.

Despite the extraordinary welling up of outrage around the Davis execution, prisoners have continued to be executed steadily over the past 12 months.

After five hours, the prisoners are transferred on to another flight for the final leg of their journey.

For far from being Nazis, the men were Polish prisoners in stolen uniforms and a misappropriated car, who had just made one of the most audacious escapes in the history of Auschwitz.

Each of the male prisoners was raped 11 times that night and every night that followed.

It is estimated that 70% of prisoners in France are Muslim, though no one really knows – French law forbids defining people by religion or ethnicity.

Of the 1,243 UK applications pending for judicial assessment at the end of last year, over 1,000 relate to voting rights for prisoners – the unresolved issue that has provoked a bitter stand-off between the UK parliament and the ECHR.