Sentence examples for prisoners Break from inspiring English sources

Some 500 mostly Taliban prisoners break out of prison in Kandahar.

His explanation for why the gang leaders had been moved out of the maximum-security prison was truly bizarre: he said the government had intercepted word of a plan to help prisoners break out of the prison by attacking it with missiles (despite the fact that there was no evidence to support the existence of this plan).

"How do prisoners break locks in jail?" asked a Kandahari who has watched the security forces closely over the years, but asked not to be identified for fear of retribution.

There, prisoners break the monotony of life behind bars by appearing as cowboys one day a year, in front of spectators, to raise money for their religious education programmes.

Those few on duty who were endangered on Friday night will have been brought face to face with how quickly things can escalate when relations between staff and prisoners break down.

Today: Nepal votes to remain a secular state, Afghan prisoners break free, an Estonian militia trains volunteers, and California's water wells dry up.

Sodexo took over the category C prison in December 2013 and union officials criticised job cuts when disorder among prisoners broke out there in March.

Adding to the allies' problems, 25 prisoners broke out from the Tasferat jail, eight of whom were quickly recaptured.

Mullah Dadullah was a commander in Helmand Province who was accused of ordering the beheading of a hostage when negotiations for the release of Taliban prisoners broke down.

Today, Pul-i-Charkhi stands silent, emptied for the last time when the Taliban fled Kabul in November 2001, during the American-led war, and the prisoners broke out and fled.

Today, he owned up to at least nine murders and a host of cruelties, including using ax handles and iron bars to beat prisoners, breaking their ribs, knocking out their teeth and pressing a bayonet or a pistol into their mouths.