prisoner

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Meanwhile, Narges Rashidi, who was born in Iran, won best leading actress for playing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in BBC One's real-life drama Prisoner 951.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

The baritone, Vincent Casagrande, a marvelously cantankerous Prisoner, tells us only sick people dream, and of course everyone on stage automatically enters a dream state.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Prisoner swaps -- and the exchange of remains of dead soldiers retrieved from the battlefield -- are one of the only areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Prisoner exchanges are one of the few areas of successful cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia’s full-blown invasion, with over 10,000 combatants exchanged in that time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Soon afterward, Prisoner 40087083 settled into the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he remains today.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau