How To Use Prison In A Sentence
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The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
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She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor.
The Italian
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Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces?
See, it's not all about the election today.
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Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
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So there is mounting concern at the top of government about how close to meltdown the prison system is.
The Sun
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A troubleshooter is being appointed to make the prison service more efficient.
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The iron hooks that prisoners were chained to are still visible on the walls.
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Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way.
The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
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The police had a good defence to the claims in false imprisonment and unlawful detention.
Times, Sunday Times
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The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
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With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith.
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Members of the 800th Military Police Brigade had to use lethal force several times to quell prisoner uprisings, the report says.
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The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face.
The Magic of Krynn
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Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
The Scarlet Letter
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Without a wheelchair, she is a virtual prisoner in her own home.
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Neither does it give them excuse for committing imprisonable crimes or for not making efforts to work to support themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prisons overbook for the same reason holiday camps do: to compensate for the inevitable number of detainees who fail to show up for confirmed reservations for one reason or another, or those who escape.
Welsh prisons overbooked
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It is simply not the case that prison conditions are improving.
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Throughout the whole insurrection not asingle imprisoned Communist was shot.
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The house is built on the site of a medieval prison.
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She's a self-professed supporter of prison reform.
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Also, that no man be so hardy to crye havock upon peyne that he that is begynner shall be deede therefore: and the remanent that doo the same, or follow, shall lose their horse and harneis ... and his body in prison at the king's will.
Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850
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Sick prisoners in the camp were 'cared for', in inverted commas, by guards, not nurses.
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Staff have been told that the workload is unlikely to ease in the near future as there are 1,700 prison jobs across Britain that remain unfilled.
Times, Sunday Times
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If John Doe is sentenced to a term of imprisonment and later goes out of his mind, the state may continue to keep him in the penitentiary for the duration of his sentence.
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He is also considering converting an army barracks and possibly a mental hospital into new open prisons.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prisoner was brought to court for trial.
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A Republican assemblyman supported the bill, citing that half of California prisoners smoke and the development will cut health care costs.
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The court handed him a suspended sentence of two months in prison, with a probationary term of five years.
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Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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How can Dr. Hughes tell us that putting these women in cuffs and in prison frees them? swoplv, on June 10th, 2009 at 7: 03 pm Said:
Donna Hughes and Criminalizing Prostitution « Bound, Not Gagged
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, went to the Hammam, his father in his joy at this event freed the prisoners, and presented splendid dresses to his grandees and bestowed large alm-gifts upon the poor and bade decorate the city seven days.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then several wardresses came in, stripped me, put me into prison clothes and took me to another cell.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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To say how prisoners spend their time on leave is up to individuals is totally unacceptable.
The Sun
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Britain's worst jail riot will force a fundamental reappraisal of prison policy.
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These range from at least 10 years imprisonment to death sentences.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.
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Back in Oxford, he sat on the City Council, and began his lifelong activity of prison visiting.
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The guard growled out a warning,threatening the prisoners with his gun.
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He called the PM a failed leader and tried to partly blame him for the fiasco over failure to deport foreign prisoners.
The Sun
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17 The writ, literally “for replevying a man,” was a means of procuring the release of a prisoner—an earlier equivalent of the writ of habeas corpus.
A History of American Law
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The darkest side of our adventurism is our global network of military prisons (authorized by the Secretary of Defense and Pentagon) where physical and mental torture are practiced even though it's known no useful information comes from it.
A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic
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Another timid miscreant, just before he is sent off to prison, has so far stepped out of reality and into legend that he asks to be known hereafter as ‘The Lonesome Kid’.
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Something else Seamus discovered was the lack of basic reading and writing skills among the prison population.
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She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder.
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Prisoner 651304 Hughes had been awarded three months loss of remission, plus the removal of televisual privileges for six weeks.
THE SCAR
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He is also considering converting an army barracks and possibly a mental hospital into new open prisons.
Times, Sunday Times
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The law also offers former exiles, political prisoners and relatives of the victims the option to apply to a committee to clear their names.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most teen - ager prisoners have unhealthy moral behaviour at school.
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This is an attempt to intimidate and blackguard the prison officers and this is an attempt that will fail.
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There are also scenes of prisoners attacking guards, shanking each other, and discussing their murders, assaults, and mutilations in graphic terms.
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She grinned and turned on her heel, ready to bolt down the hallway and dart her way out of the prison.
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They were found to have presided over miscarriages of justice that led to wrongful imprisonments.
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Talks are under way to let the Scottish Prison Service access and contribute information to a powerful intelligence database on the movements and activities of the country's criminals.
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I had been in local prisons, but then I landed up in prison far away from my own home.
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The breakout brings to 15 the number of awaiting-trial prisoners who have escaped from police holding cells in the Transkei since the weekend.
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Even though he had been sentenced to detention, the authorities did not have to send Joe to prison.
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Too many high-risk prisoners are set loose after cursory checks, sometimes just a quick phone call.
The Sun
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He preferred to watch, unobserved, the street life of the city from a hole in his prison wall, than to smoke cheroots and talk politics with his fellow prisoners.
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La justice italienne a à son tour passé l'éponge après avoir maintenu l'ancien militant ultra-nationaliste en prison pendant 19 ans, mais l'a remis en 2000 aux autorités turques qui le réclamaient pour purger deux peines auxquelles il avait été condamné en Turquie, l'une pour une attaque de banque commise dans les années 1970 et l'autre pour le meurtre d'un journaliste turc en 1979. belga/th
Mehmet Ali Agca,Pope John Paul II's Would-Be Assassin, embraces the Catholic Faith! IMPORTANT INFO ADDED
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He was in prison for ten years.
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During the dispute, many police officers were seconded from traffic duty to the prison service.
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He is the lawyer who plunged the Scottish Executive into a compensation crisis by successfully challenging slopping out in prisons.
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The security services used harsh methods of sensory deprivation against prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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A prison sentence should match the severity of the crime.
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As if that weren't sufficient grounding to make a prison film, he based this on a true story, co-wrote it with one of the original prisoners involved, and cast it with non-professionals, including another of the cellmates.
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The government insists that 'prison works' and plans to introduce a tougher sentencing policy for people convicted of violent crime.
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They discharged him from prison.
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Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
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There was a massive public outcry against the harsh prison sentence.
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The Danish government gave the Association permission to purchase food from Danish sources and to import foodstuffs from neutral countries for reshipment to needy prisoners of war (this permission was highly unusual given the tight blockade that the Allies imposed on Denmark to prevent the trans-shipment of food to Germany).
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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During the war he was captured on Crete and imprisoned for five years.
Times, Sunday Times
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You were convicted by a jury in 1984 of murder of your common-law wife and sentenced to life imprisonment, with the tariff set at 12 years.
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And now this move to privatize prisons was sure to usurp whatever power she had remaining.
INSIDERS
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A man who attacked a prison officer while in a court dock has been jailed for three months.
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He's in the prison, he's dobbing on his prison mates, on other inmates, and he's very scared for his life.
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The death and torture camps, barbaric prisons for political opponents and routine beatings for anyone suspected of disloyalty are well documented.
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The criminal was adjudged to prison for eight years.
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Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unsuspended prison sentence is rare for white-collar crimes of this nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement.
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
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Of the general prison population roughly 67% reoffend within two years of being released.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
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They were each sentenced to 29 years in prison but were released in 1992 as part of an amnesty granted to political prisoners, having served only five years of their sentence.
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They need to recruit more people into the prison service. But another point I'd like to make is that many prisons were built in the nineteenth century.
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It mattered not that a corporate contemnor could not be committed to prison.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had tasted it as a prisoner of war in Germany, and the wine, a thimbleful in a mustard jar, was underripe and short on the finish.
Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
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The accounts have been based not only on the word of detainees, but of prison guards, translators, FBI agents and others.
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His prison sentence was remitted to two years.
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The success rate was not as high as we would have liked but it was significantly cheaper than incarcerating them in prison.
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As you read this special issue on Prisons, thrill to the fact that lives are being changed - in spite of their presence in prison cells.
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Even though her storyline - which follows João on the road to stardom, with several stopovers in prison - can seem underdeveloped, Ramos is always charismatic.
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‘No’ she said sharply ‘but there is no reason for me to talk to brainless dimwits like you, I am after all your prisoner’ she said, and she scowled.
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Fear of crime imprisons many elderly people in their homes.
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They run the risk of becoming prisoners at any time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pickron, who had experience in the background-screening industry, soon learned the landscaper was a convicted felon released from prison two years earlier.
Azcentral.com | news
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The liberty of the citizen, and false imprisonment were discanted on in a loud and moving manner.
A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In Engla
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The courts do remand a significant minority of accused people in prison to await trial.
The Prisons We Deserve
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She has called for more support to be made available for former drug addicts coming out of prison.
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Open prisons prepare prisoners for life back in the community.
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But crucial to the Apprendi analysis, and what distinguishes this from parole, is the additional imprisonment term is not authorized unless and until the judge finds a violation of the terms of release.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Extending Probation Sentence Without Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
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Kate Augusto, Danielle Capalbo and Nick Mendez report that Ayman Nour, a leading political dissident in Egypt, has decided to return to prison and finish his sentence in order to dramatize what he calls the Egyptian government's ongoing lack of respect for democratic values.
Archive 2009-05-01
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He is imprisoned for a year for having acted as Castlewood's second in the duel, for which Lady Castlewood bitterly reproaches him, and on his release joins the army and fights in the war of the Spanish Succession.
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In the ensuing litigation, this was portrayed as blackmail - a serious offence that has a maximum prison term of 14 years.
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The prisoner escaped from the prison by knotting the sheets together and climbing down them out to the window.
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He could avoid expulsion and imprisonment if the full 435-member House decides to enforce censure, a reprimand or fines.
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So we are to reshape the system and introduce a network of resettlement prisons all around the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some prison practices are in need of root and branch reform.
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No love is foul, no prison fair.
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Prison birds do not know the sea.
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Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others.
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The prisoner escaped through a hole in the wall.
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Questioned in prison, he admitted both break-ins.
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The prisoner broke away from his guards.
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There are certain basic requirements of humanity which are not negotiable when it comes to running prisons.
The Prisons We Deserve
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When I walked out of the prison cell towards the door leading to freedom, I have made it clear his own pain and resentment if not able to stay behind, so in fact I still in prison.
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At my hearing, I was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in a maximum security jail.
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She miraculously encountered the prison dungeon and entered to get some answers.
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He served a year in prison - including eight months in solitary confinement.
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It is accordingly not a right to exercise liberties (such as free speech or association) within a prison's walls.
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The movie star is in prison for tax evasion.
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Actual policemen brought the prisoners down to the police station in handcuffs and did the booking.
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It has only received a 250,000 interim payment for wrongful imprisonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Assault carries a maximum penalty of seven years' imprisonment.
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It is hoped prisoners can provide information about unsolved cases and will call a free Crimestoppers number.
Times, Sunday Times
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At 2pm on Tuesday last all 190 prisoners were locked in their cells as prison officers staged a one-hour walk-out.
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He handed to the prisoner, as he spoke, the writing materials, which had been seized upon by the archers on their first entrance, and then commanded those satellites to unhand the minstrel.
Castle Dangerous
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For all their rejoicing, these women did not look forward to imprisonment!
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In the first - the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison, whereas in the second - - the Huxleyan - culture becomes a burlesque.
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One survivor, today a physician, was imprisoned as a boy in the same camp as his father.
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He used a "set of prison bars for the name Bernie Madoff" in his example for "brachygraphy" in the semifinals and later made a reference to the "The Jeffersons," a TV sitcom that went off the air some 10 years before the oldest of the spellers was born.
Pa. girl wins Bee with 'cymotrichous'
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We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
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Several religious leaders have interceded with the authorities on behalf of the condemned prisoner.
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He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him.
Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
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The prisoners were taken down in the elevator one at a time.
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The original intention had been that it would hold 1000 prisoners.
The Prisons We Deserve
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The prisoner was successfully rehabilitated
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Why pay to imprison criminals, when hanging is so much cheaper?
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He was charged with criminal homicide and is lodged in the county prison.
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The national police agency declared war on the Yamaguchi-gumi in September in an attempt to rein it in before the release of its leader, Kenichi Shinoda, from prison next spring.
Yakuza chief arrested in Japan
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She called on the government to speed up the process of release for hundreds of political prisoners still in jail.
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Neuerthelesse, the rumour was great, and they rang alarme: wherefore the sayd slaues comming to prison, as it was ordeined in al the alarmes, were met of the people, which in great anger put them to death: so that there were slaine an hundred and moe the same day.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The justice secretary is blaming her predecessors for the crisis in prisons and says that there are too few officers to run them properly.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think prison is going to be a scary thing for Harry.
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The original intention had been that it would hold 1000 prisoners.
The Prisons We Deserve
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She'sbeen told that her husband is being harshly treated in prison.
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Was recently awarded ￡30,000 damages against Thames Valley Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
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This whole section appears to me to be a wonderful revelation of his prison thoughts, an example of what we may call the ennobling power of a passionate enthusiasm for Christ.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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Scotland's rebel MSPTommy Sheridan faces a second prison sentence for standing up for his political beliefs.
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Conditions in the prison were not good, he wrote, but in his opinion they didn't specifically contravene any UN conventions.
THE EXECUTION
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The practice caused outrage at the EU, after it was revealed the CIA had used secret prisons in Romania and Poland and airports such as Prestwick in Scotland to conduct up to 1,200 rendition flights.
The Times of India
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Some find themselves utterly transformed by their longing for each other, and they dwell in a sort of blissful paradox, imprisoned, yet unmoored from the structure of their outside lives, so that their mutual captivity becomes a new kind of freedom.
Best of 2009
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Now the games that involved, and we can basically say that they were blood sports, they might involve pitting of slaves or prisoners of war, against wild animals or gladiators.
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But Khadr's treatment in prison is undoubtedly a mitigating factor in sentencing as well.
Daphne Eviatar: Judge Hides Evidence of Torture from Gitmo Jury
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The prisoner told lawyers he was tortured using the strappado, in which a prisoner is suspended from a bar with handcuffs.
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He even abolished the system whereby the police controlled prisoners once they were released and introduced what we call the probation system where an independent probation service, a non-police service, supervises the prisoners.
Churchill: A Life
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Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering.
Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs
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They could have sent Smith to prison but decided on a curfew and community service.
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For many prisoners life inside is so much better than outside that some ask to stay.
Times, Sunday Times
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A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoner inthralled!
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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My book was chosen in part because it deals with issues familiar to many prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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December 7, a municipal, at the head of a deputation from the Commune, came to read to the king a decree which ordered him to take from the prisoners "knives, razors, scissors, penknives, and all other sharp instruments of which prisoners presumed criminal are deprived; and to make a most minute search of their persons and of their apartments.
The Ruin of a Princess
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Sideshow Bob terrorizes Bart after he is paroled from prison.
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Chelmsford crown court had heard her admit grievous bodily harm and she was sentenced to two years prison, suspended for two years.
The Sun
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South Australia also had its own prison hulks, moored at Semaphore.
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There was crisis too within the republican movement, as a generation of prisoners was entering a second decade in prison, and a third generation of republican activists since 1969 were becoming involved.
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The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
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Surrendering warriors have been greeted with open arms; some are amnestied, while others, especially foreign ones, are imprisoned.
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Well, there are no legal orders which permit you to rape and torture prisoners.
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Gits Drummer Steve Moriarity Comments On Mia Zapata Killer's Reinstated Prison Sentence Butt Powder: Sitek should stop ripping off the early 4AD catalo ...
The Tripwire
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When I walked out of the prison cell towards the door leading to freedom, I have made it clear his own pain and resentment if not able to stay behind, so in fact I still in prison.
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Three prisoners were crammed into a cell designed for one person.
Times, Sunday Times
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the prisoner's ankles were so chained together that they could only march in lockstep
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Short prison sentences or a light physical punishment are the norm in most criminal cases.
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Why should the law abiding working person pay for these scum to be locked up in cosy cells with all the amenities that they can’t afford for themselves, if you are sending people to prison it should be hell on earth for them.
Another Form Of Relief « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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A special committee has been appointed to handle prisoners' grievances.
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The applicants have claimed that their removal and detention constituted wrongful imprisonment and deprivation of liberty.
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Even more revealing are statistics concerning the lifetime chances of going to prison.
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Hadn't the Russians decided that Siberia-the old barless prison state of the czars and early Communists-was a more practical frontier than the moon?
If the Stars are Gods
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‘The Lord’s anointed is a prisoner now in the light grating of
Chapter 1 - Part IX
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They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence.
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The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man.
The Sun
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If you go on behaving in this way, you'll land up in prison one day.
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Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
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Scattered accounts of Tony Fernandez’s postprison activities boggle the mind.
Without Pity
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The onetime Republican power broker faces up to 99 years in prison on felony charges that he orchestrated an illegal plan to funnel campaign cash to state GOP candidates who, after being elected, redrew congressional districts to favor their party.
DeLay Corruption Trial Starts
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Starting new ones will only compound the problem: the traditionalist is in the same boat as the liberal to the extent that both are prisoners of a denominational market (p. 205), even when appeal is constantly being made to the model of Reformation confessio - or even early Christian martyrdom.
Ramsey Lecture - Durham - 'The Lutheran Catholic'
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But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
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Inside the cages, the prisoners remain manacled.
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The Oxford based Phoenix Prison Trust is aiming to recruit prisoners to meditation using classes and a book of basic techniques.
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At their best the conditions in these prisons are scarcely tolerable.
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According to myth Hades also imprisoned his wife, Persephone , in the underworld's eternal darkness.
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The governor commuted the prisoner's sentence of death to one of life imprisonment.
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Jail term or life imprisonment or community work cannot substitute as they are not equals.
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Drink-driving should carry an automatic prison sentence .
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He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp.
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She had gone to that bungaloid mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb certain she would find her patient kept under duress, perhaps even physically a prisoner, possibly maltreated, and she had been prepared to call the police and tell them here was someone detained against his will.
Portobello
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Sick prisoners in the camp were 'cared for', in inverted commas, by guards, not nurses.
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Lundbeck, which manufactures the drug in the US under the tradename Nembutal, now demands that its US distributors sign an agreement stating that they will not make pentobarbital, which is a sedative with a wide range of uses, available for prisons using it for lethal injections.
Troy Davis case brings calls for execution drug controls
