Word: windowless
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...
...Force hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, where freed hostages first go. The professor was severely undernourished, and his muscles were wasted from lack of exercise. On the flight to Wiesbaden, Polhill exulted at seeing the sun for the first time after 1,182 days in windowless rooms, and he spoke in a hoarse whisper; doctors in the U.S., where he arrived at week's end, found a growth on his vocal cords. Still he displayed a lively wit and undiminished anger at his captors, which he said he had kept hot in order to avoid turning into "a vegetable...
Chanes and Diaz are kept in isolation at the Combinado del Este prison on the outskirts of Havana in a windowless cell so tiny they have no room to walk. Both are said to be in failing health...
From 1974 to 1977, the family was reportedly kept in almost total darkness. For the next ten years, they were held incommunicado in separate, windowless cells. In the past few years, the conditions of the family's detention have improved. In 1987 King Hassan agreed to let them immigrate to Canada but then reneged on the deal...
...accused felon and his hosts -- from the Justice Department this time -- took him to jail. After landing at 2:45 a.m., the deposed dictator was sped to a Miami federal courthouse. There he was posed in a T shirt for a humiliating mug shot, then stashed in a windowless basement cell. Panama's numero uno had become federal prisoner...