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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
/ 藞辫谤瑟锄蓹苍蓹 /
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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One group which says is defending the rights of prisoners has claimed responsibility for attacks over the past two weeks in a series of posts on the Telegram social network, French media is reporting.
A convicted robber who was at least the ninth person to escape a reentry program facility for California state prisoners this year has been captured in Las Vegas.
It was where many of those eastern concentration camp prisoners ended up.
It is tasked with a broad range of actions 鈥 hunting fugitives, transporting federal prisoners and managing goods seized from criminals.
State prisoners often end up serving less time because of credit for rehabilitative programs and good behavior, but the suggestion that Ortega-Anguiano could walk free riled Trump administration officials.
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