'Prisoners' in the Bible

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;