Many prisoners have languished in the cells for more than a year.

That day was a festival in all Paris, while the unfortunate prisoners were languishing in the dungeons of the Temple.

The helpless prisoners, most of them children, still languished in the dungeons below.

As the prisoners languish, the Rwandan judicial system remains non-functional, 80 percent of its judges and prosecutors dead, in prison or in self-imposed exile.

The report, "Human Rights in Syria," asserts that at least 7,500 political prisoners "languish in Syrian jails" without due process.

The prisoners of Guantánamo Bay have been languishing for more than five years.

Mr. Mandela has been freed, but other political prisoners languish in jail.

Pale skin suggested that the prisoners had languished below decks for quite some time.

These prisoners face no judicial process but instead languish in 'administrative detention' for years.

Political prisoners languish in jails.