1.   As a hospice aide, he smuggled medication and food to sick prisoners.

2.   Several analysts said one hopeful and likely outcome could be an announcement that the two sides had agreed to press ahead on an exchange of sick prisoners.

3.   The widowed schoolteacher is central to a legal and medical drama over whether sick prisoners should be set free.

4.   Other mothers claimed that sick prisoners did not receive proper care.

5.   Houck has allowed sick prisoners out of jail rather than spend tax money on their health care.

6.   Sallam, according to the prison officials, also announced during his tour of Tora that the Health Ministry will pay for the treatment of sick prisoners.

7.   Sick prisoners held in an Israeli hospital also joined the hunger strike Friday, its sixth day.

8.   The Colombian government and leftist guerrillas agreed Saturday to swap sick prisoners in what would be the first major breakthrough since peace talks began more than two years ago.

9.   The hunger strikers also want an end to alleged harassment and torture in prisons and prompt medical treatment for sick prisoners.

10.   The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said that sick prisoners were given immediate medical care.