This island was used as a prison for recalcitrant prisoners from other settlements in Tasmania, due to its extreme isolation and extreme climate.

Centurion Liravek asked sharply, as though interrogating a group of recalcitrant prisoners.

Sen Dunsidan had used him on occasion to question recalcitrant prisoners.

He had neither time nor patience for recalcitrant prisoners.

Its remoteness, previously seen as a disadvantage, was now viewed as an asset for the detention of recalcitrant male prisoners.

To inspire other recalcitrant prisoners, he volunteered to be publicly beaten to death.

The red-faced sergeant scrambled to subdue his recalcitrant prisoner.

The original was not a game but a method of torture used on recalcitrant prisoners.

"This is a cell for our most recalcitrant prisoner: the ideological traitor," the committee member intoned.

But China's rural police have a long history of using torture on recalcitrant prisoners to elicit contrition and confession.