Sentence examples for prisoners built from inspiring English sources

Prisoners built the course, which is on penitentiary property and open to the public.

Some of the prisoners built their own radio which they used to follow the progress of the war.

And yet, in what had been a largely peasant country, prisoners built roads, railways, dams, and factories; staffed steel mills, coal mines, ironworks, oil fields; cleared forests in Komi, fished salmon off Sakhalin, slaughtered livestock in the Caucasus.

Prisoners built barricades and threw scaffolding poles at the C&R units, and after approximately thirty minutes the C&R units withdrew without regaining control of the wing.

Borrowing a page from 19th convict leasing policies, the state's new border law requires that prisoners build the illusory wall to nowhere.

By some estimates, over 43,000 prisoners now sit in Venezuelan prisons built with a capacity for fewer than 17,000.

"Maybe old people associate it with the gulag," said Yuri M. Filatov, the director of Norilsk Nickel's copper factory, when asked about the prisoners who built it.

By 2001, the prison — beige, pristine, surrounded by electrified fence and able to hold at least 1,600 prisoners — was built, at a cost to the state of $128 million.

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.

Mind you, this was eased through having the Norman ruins of Kelso Abbey a few hundred yards away, Flodden only a dozen miles off, Rennie's Kelso Bridge as the model for old Waterloo bridge, the French prisoners who built the great wall round Floors Castle... We lived in the shadow of the ballads and David Hume.

In 2002, the sprawling village that prisoners had built in its courtyard was bulldozed.