Describe the part of In the time of the Butterflies when the Mirabel sisters were in prison and what happened out of prison?

In the book In the Time of the
Butterflies the two sisters Minerva and Mate were arrested and locked up in a
small cell with other women.  Several of the women were political prisoners like the
Mirabel sisters but many of the others were prostitutes.  There was also a woman who had
tried to get her child back by threatening to kill someone who had her
child.

Everyday Minerva would hold school except on
Sunday.  They would discuss the revolution and how to behave.  When they pardoned
several people they offerred a pardon to the Mirabel sisters but they refused.  Minerva
said that if she had nothing to be pardoned for because she had done nothing wrong, then
she could not give in to be pardoned.

In the prison the
women were very hungry, on several occasions Minerva was placed in solitary confinement
for acting out, and Mate was beaten and physically abused.  They had one male prison
guard who tried to be kind to them and brought them smuggled in packages and even some
blue hair ribbon for Mate.

When the UN investigators came
around to assess the way the political prisoners were being treated, they even fed the
girls chicken and rice in the prison.  The guards were afraid that the girls would
report them as having been inhumane.  Mate hides a note in her hair telling them what
grievances she had because of the mistreatment.

Both women
were realtively broken when they left the hospital, but they hid it
well.