Most prisons are neglected because ordinary prisoners tend to be poor, with no political influence.

He was sentenced to a year in jail as an ordinary political prisoner without the privileges that had formerly been accorded him.

As a "serious political prisoner," he said, he was not subject to the beatings and lashings that ordinary prisoners experienced.

Jayapala was humiliated by mingling with ordinary prisoners and put to auction.

No ordinary prisoner would have attempted such a message.

Roschmann concealed himself as an ordinary prisoner of war, and in so doing obtained a release from custody in 1947.

Authorities usually defrocked monks when they arrested them and treated them like ordinary prisoners, including using torture.

The lot of ordinary prisoners could be-too often was-harsh.

The Germans stopped treating ordinary prisoners and focused on those that could help the war effort.

Camp officials benefited at least as much as ordinary prisoners from the entertainment their theaters offered.