31. The agency did not explain publicly why it keeps prisoners under interrogation from sleeping, but said prisoners not under active interrogation were allowed to sleep normally. 32. The agency did not explain publicly why it keeps prisoners under interrogation from sleeping but said prisoners not under active interrogation were allowed to sleep normally. 33. The prisoners were kept in wooden shackles and fed two meager meals a day. 34. The prisoners are kept in open-air cells that have been called cages by critics. 35. The prisoners were kept in a tiny cell, with no direct light or ventilation. 36. Though some prisoners are kept in groups, they are forbidden to speak to each other or to the guards, except to ask for food or medical treatment. 37. They were demanding improved conditions and the closure of a top security prison notorious for keeping its prisoners in isolation. 38. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said some prisoners may be kept indefinitely. 39. This took place on a frozen field where the prisoners had been kept in unheated, canvas-covered trucks for most of the afternoon and into the night. 40. That strike was launched to press demands for improved conditions and the closure of a top security prison notorious for keeping its prisoners in isolation. |