Imagine two prisoners are separately offered the same deal: if one of them testifies and the other doesn't talk, the talker will go free and the holdout will go to jail for 10 years.
Each prisoner (confined separately and unable to communicate with his partner) is given the choice to remain silent (to "cooperate" with their partner) or to turn state's evidence and testify against the other (to "defect" against their partner).
The format for each game was the "sequential prisoner's dilemma" (SPD), which imagines two prisoners being held separately for interrogation on their parts in an alleged crime.
When six different prisoners were asked separately and in private about how their feet were wounded, each of them gave evasive answers, including two who said, simply but uncomfortably, "I forgot".
A spokesman for the state department insisted the payment eventually made in August was not a ransom, and that negotiations over the release of four US prisoners were conducted separately from the settlement of a decades-old account pertaining to a failed arms deal with Iran.
So far, three men -- an Army chaplain and two Arabic-language interpreters, including Airman al-Halabi -- who worked at the base with the suspected Qaeda and Taliban prisoners have been arrested, separately.
Sugden illustrates conventions of reciprocity with the Prisoner's Dilemma, which has the following payoff matrix: Prisoner's Dilemma Payoff Matrix The original intuitive interpretation of this payoff matrix is that the police are separately interrogating two prisoners, each of whom must decide whether to cooperate with the other prisoner by remaining silent or whether to "defect" by confessing.
Tens of thousands more prisoners are to be released separately under changes in sentencing guidelines by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Since 2003, the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which protects prisoners under 18 by separating them "sight and sound" from older populations, has put strains on prisons forced to house 17-year-olds separately.
Separately, under a prisoner-transfer agreement that they recently agreed with Britain, the Libyan authorities requested in May that he be sent home to serve out the rest of his sentence.Under Scotland's devolution settlement, a little improbably the man responsible for deciding Mr Megrahi's fate was Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary.
