prisoner

Example Sentences

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Soon I find a government website for locating prisoners in California.

From Literature

Sudani has also cooperated with the United States to bring into Iraq a caravan of Islamic State prisoners from Syria, where the army recently moved on Kurdish fighters who had run the detention camps.

From Barron's

Wagner points for example to images of "well-fed prisoners, meant to suggest that conditions in concentration camps weren't really that bad".

From Barron's

Before this weekend's developments, the group had confirmed the release of just 156 political prisoners since 8 January.

From BBC

The U.S. military began transferring thousands of Islamic State prisoners from facilities in northeastern Syria to Iraq on Wednesday, concerned that the former fighters and their family members could escape.

From The Wall Street Journal