The question is whether federal prisoners can seek federal court review when the prior convictions are the reason the prisoner has been sentenced to extra time as a repeat offender.

For that reason, the judges said, the prisoners "cannot seek release based on violations of the Constitution or treaties or federal law; the courts are not open to them."

The prisoners sought to have United States courts issue writs of habeas corpus, a venerable technique to challenge someone's detention as illegal or unconstitutional.

As the five prisoners seek answers to their predicament within the house, two of them are murdered in two different instances.

They also argue that prisoners can seek relief in federal court under federal civil rights laws.

Chris's prisoner was either seeking commu-nication with its kind or striving to break out of confine-ment.

With law enforcement officers on their trail, the prisoners all too often seek the seeming safety of old haunts and turn to help from family and friends.

Accordingly, that the prisoner had previously sought habeas relief could not bar the present challenge.

Afterwards, 179 prisoners sought medical attention for the self-inflicted injuries.

After liberation, he and other prisoners sought weapons from Australian soldiers, to take revenge on Japanese personnel, but were refused.