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prisoners

NOUN
person jailed for crime; person kept against his or her will
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In Yemen's capital Sanaa, Houthi supporters celebrated the freeing of 210 prisoners held in areas that fell to the group and had spent up to eight years in jail.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

The state’s license plates are made by prisoners at Folsom State Prison.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

His case is about the procedural mechanism prisoners must use to seek that sort of transfer.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

Jane Haining is recognised in a renewed section of the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum's main exhibition - devoted to hundreds of prisoners for whom no registration photographs were taken.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

"I found that the majority of the workers employed at all plants were either prisoners of war or German military prisoners or Russians," Dasch said.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple



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