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prisoner
noun[ C ]
us/ˈprɪz·ə·nər, ˈprɪz·nər/
a person who is kept in prison as punishment
A prisoner is also someone who is under the control of someone else and not physically free:
Two security guards were held/taken prisoner during the robbery.

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There were also improvements in the health care of prisoners and some penal institutions set up specially equipped cells for women giving birth behind bars.
The cycle is well explained by the prisoner's dilemma game.
Ironically, confinement of political prisoners helped forge national identity, fuelled opposition to colonialism, and provoked rebellions.
In addition, they freed prisoners from the opposition party, and in the process 6,500 others managed to escape.
Such questions are illustrated with reference to discourses about legal rights, the treatment of prisoners, and corruption.
They include propensities to cooperate in individual or multiparty prisoner's dilemmas when the strictly dominant strategy is to defect.
According to the selection perspective, parental imprisonment predicts internalizing problems because prisoners' children are already disproportionally disadvantaged, not because parental imprisonment causes problems for children.
The two have descended into the dungeon and are in the process of digging the prisoner's grave.
Private companies also profit by contracting to supply food and telephone services to prisoners.
The opera thus depicts the redemption not merely of the prisoners, but of the entire social universe to which it introduces us.
The survey included 581 (8.3 per cent) of 6,793 prisoners, housed in 11 of the country's 23 detention centres.
Repeatedly, warders attempted to engineer a crisis by encouraging prisoners to escape or to start a riot.
We illustrate this result with the prisoner's dilemma game.
Often, when we are waiting in traffic, we are prisoners, immobilized, forced to stop and wait.
The remaining prisoners respond to their fellow inmate's words in a choral passage of mounting excitement.
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condemned prisoner
They have been especially concerned about the effect on the staff who had custody of the condemnedprisoner.
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