Inmates in sentence

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Inmates can be scientists and beekeepers, dog rescuers.

Prisons can be the source of meaningful work and opportunity for staff and the inmates who live there.

This realization was exploited most powerfully for pragmatic ends by the 18th- century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time, institutions had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised was an architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called the panopticon, the primary attribute of which was the construction of an enormous tower in the center of the institution where whoever controlled the institution could at any moment watch any of the inmates, although they couldn't watch all of them at all times.

And crucial to this design was that the inmates could not actually see into the panopticon, into the tower, and so they never knew if they were being watched or even when.

I went farther inside and I suddenly saw inmates moving across the corridors.

They also suggested to me that the workshop should be not just for the inmates taking university classes, but for all the inmates.

The only thing the inmates had to do was read a poem, and receive their diplomas and applause.

I told you a lot about the prison, a lot about what I experience every week, and how I enjoy it and transform myself with the inmates.

We need to change the culture in our jails and prisons, especially for young inmates.

It's very easy for some people to look at these correctional officers as the good guys and the inmates as the bad guys, or vice versa for some, but it's a little more than that.

A male coworker was annoyed that I had been out on 'vacation,' so he intentionally opened the door on me while I was pumping breast milk and stood in the doorway with inmates in the hallway."

We visited not only with prosecutors but with legislators, with inmates in our state and local prisons.

He told me about all the suicide attempts he's seen in Ferguson's jail; about the time a man found a way to hang himself out of reach of the other inmates, so all they could do was yell and yell and yell, trying to get the guards' attention so they could come down and cut him down.

Right here in San Francisco, 85 percent of the inmates in our jail in San Francisco are pretrial detainees.

As I meet, or lend an ear to those who are sick, to the migrants who face terrible hardships in search of a brighter future, to prison inmates who carry a hell of pain inside their hearts, and to those, many of them young, who cannot find a job, I often find myself wondering: "Why them and not me?"

In 1824, New York prison guard James Hardie credited the device with taming his more boisterous inmates, writing that the "monotonous steadiness, and not its severity...constitutes its terror," a quote many still agree with.

I've been to prisons twice to talk to inmates about their jobs after they leave.

I've come to recognize these inmates and probationers as surprisingly among the most vulnerable members of society.

So working together with my state and local partners, we crafted a plan to meet everyone's needs: the system, the inmates and probationers, my graduate students.

And here when I say "safer," I mean safer not only for the inmates, but safer also for correctional staff.

The inmates move from, "I'm a total screwup, I'm a loser," to, "Here's what I don't do well, and here's what I have to do about it."

We hear from inmates around the country, and they write, and more than anything, they want to know how to help themselves.

All told, in this program, these inmates and probationers come to see themselves differently.

And our new project is having the inmates and ourselves learn how to raise the Oregon spotted frog which is a highly endangered amphibian in Washington state and Oregon.

And police said that it happened because he was playing hide and seek, which is "elude the cat" in Chinese slang, with other inmates and hit his head against the wall, which was not an explanation which sat well with many Chinese bloggers.

But how was I going to help change a system that was bringing in younger inmates every day who deserve to be with their families?

So I started mobilizing my colleagues in prison, my fellow inmates, to write letters and memoranda to the justice system, to the Judicial Service Commission, the numerous task forces that had been set up in our country, Kenya, to help change the constitution.

But I felt empowered not only to assist myself, to prosecute my own case, but also to assist the other inmates who are suffering the similar injustices that have just been spoken about here.

Alexander McLean and his team at the African Prisons Project decided to support more inmates.

And as I'm speaking to you today, there are 63 inmates and staff in the Kenya Prison Service studying law at the University of London through distance learning.

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