For weeks, a committee of congressmen heard testimony from prisoners and prison workers who described how inmates were flogged, stuffed into "sweatboxes" and hung by their thumbs.
In this production "fear and death hang over everyone," she said: not just the prisoners but the prison workers who spend their days engaged in the numbing routine of running the place.
On August 2, 1943, a group of Jewish prisoner-workers rose in a planned revolt, killing some Ukrainian guards and one SS officer but generally failing in a confusion of mistiming and ill luck.
In that spirit, Mr. Michel recently made plans for a reunion: The man in the camp who had asked for a volunteer with good handwriting, a German Communist prisoner-worker named Stefan Heyman, died of natural causes some years ago.
* In California, prison workers and peace officers will now be prohibited from having sex with inmates and prisoners in transport.
Up to four players represent allied groups: neighbors, students, prisoners, or workers.
A lot of adults, veterans, prisoners, migrant workers, other people, watch it.
In the cells are prisoners – or workers, or children, depending on the use of the building.
Joan can't sleep and hears noises outside; it becomes clear that the noises are coming from nameless people (deportees? refugees? prisoners? migrant workers?) being transported, by truck, to a shed nearby.
But when they do, they should treat the prisoners like workers – and for a fair day's work, reward them with a fair day's pay – or at least the national minimum wage.
