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prisoner
[ priz-uh-ner, priz-ner ]
noun
- a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- a person or thing that is deprived of liberty or kept in restraint.
prisoner
/ ˈprɪzənə /
noun
- a person deprived of liberty and kept in prison or some other form of custody as a punishment for a crime, while awaiting trial, or for some other reason
- a person confined by any of various restraints
we are all prisoners of time
- take no prisoners informal.to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
- take someone prisonerto capture and hold someone as a prisoner, esp as a prisoner of war
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The government is now is hoping to pass emergency legislation that would allow between 260 and 390 prisoners to be freed early in February.
Whatever the voters’ reasons, forcing incarcerated individuals to do work against their will is immoral and does no one any good — neither prisoners nor those in the outside world to which most will return.
Members of the Palestinian militant group Black September had taken 11 Israeli athletes hostage, demanding the release of hundreds of prisoners held in their country’s jails.
The change would also apply to new prisoners sentenced from the point the bill is introduced.
Mr Cotler has represented Iranian political prisoners and has strong ties to Israel.
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