Perhaps if it is a bad case they are sent to the mines for a bit; that is what certainly happens when they are political prisoners.
He described the life of political prisoners, of course, and even that was not very bad.
Throughout the Napoleonic epoch the Conciergerie was appropriated largely to political prisoners; and at the Restoration it was the last resting-place of Marshal Ney, who left it only to be shot.
The police were then directly charged with having invented a serious disturbance in order to make short work of a number of political prisoners.
I would not allow this exceptional treatment of political prisoners to interfere, however, with the fundamental principle I have laid down of making all our prisons self-supporting.
We decided, in the face of extended imprisonment, to demand to be treated as political prisoners.
I appeal to you as a well-known sanitarian to get the Board of Charities to make such rules and regulations as would secure to prisoners of all kinds, and especially to political prisoners, as humane an environment as possible.
I suppose so," said the Duke, in a desponding tone; "but it is not pleasant to think that after a century and a half the tomb of political prisoners in Dartmoor should be repaired by the hands of political prisoners.
If the Liberal-Conservatives put up such a man as Richard Lincoln they will re-elect him, and if the administration is changed, diplomacy and entreaty may accomplish a general release of political prisoners.
Is there no one in the House of Commons who will ask a question on this case, and demand an enquiry into the treatment of political prisoners in India?
Longstreet to Lee on Exchange of Political Prisoners.
In regard to any apprehended misunderstanding in reference to the exchange of political prisoners, I think there need be none.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "political prisoners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
