Sentence examples for us prisoners from inspiring English sources

US officials declined to confirm the release of the four US prisoners until the plane taking them to Switzerland and then on to Germany, for medical checks at a US military base, had left.

The Paris Peace Accords were signed by the end of the month, leading to the release of some US prisoners of war and paving the way for an end to US military involvement in Vietnam.

Some 25,000 US prisoners are currently held in isolation - a punishment only rarely used in other democracies.

Back then, my film on Rodney Hulin - who had been raped repeatedly and eventually committed suicide in Texas prison - came to stand for the estimated 20% of US prisoners subjected to that kind of abuse.

As the senior officer among what later became almost 500 US prisoners of war, Stockdale took command, even though at first he could not even stand upright.

"If you want to go with the No 1 story of the week, it's been the freeing of those seven US prisoners of war.

The for-profit (and some of the society) publishers have held us prisoner long enough; information wants to be free, and its time has come.

The family of the lone known US prisoner of war says it's "cautiously optimistic" about reported new efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to win his freedom.

While the story of US prisoner of war Louis Zamperini failed to go on the predicted Oscars run, it has so far taken $140m worldwide for studio Universal.

Mahdi Hashi: From Camden care worker to US prisoner Mahdi Hashi, a former care worker from Camden in north London, was well known to Britain's security services – in fact they tried to recruit him when he was 19.

A US prisoner in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War was deprived of sleep for more than twenty days.