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Jails in sentence

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One of the sentences was, "Some jobs are jails."
Now, unless you're a prison guard, the sentence "Some jobs are jails" is literally false.
Tougher jails?
In America, there are so many movies that describe condemned criminals or jails.
It is not hidden that many Indian POWs are rotting in Pakistani Jails for years - for whom neither Indian Govt.
This realization came to me after meeting again an old friend, whom I had not seen for almost 15 years, which he spent in several Panamanian jails.
There are jails and there are jails, one must say, but this one prisoner in "Shot In the Heart" is definitely out of this world.
There have been many movies about jails - or escaping therefrom - but none like "Big House Bunny", in which Bugs Bunny tries to flee some hunters but accidentally tunnels into Sing Sing, where guard Yosemite Sam Schultz locks him up.
After the court delivered its verdict, the regime halved the sentence and agreed to keep Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, rather than moving her to one of its worst jails.
As a result, the country with the world’s most extensive system of price controls also has the highest inflation – as well as an ever-expanding police effort that jails retail managers for holding inventories and even closes the borders to prevent smuggling.
Opposition figures have been persecuted, dismissed, kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured in police stations and jails.
As heir to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the legendary democratic leader who was hanged by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s government in 1979, Benazir emerged as a symbol of resistance at a young age – but languished in jails and exile in the 1980’s.
A brigade of experts descended on the jails, looking for evidence to justify their own pet theories of terrorist psychology.
So the al-Saud have become Janus-faced: looking in one direction, the royal family encourages democratic reformers to speak out; looking in the opposite direction, it jails them when they do.
The gangs are now more organized in El Salvador because the authorities confine many of them in separate jails according to their specific group.
We see lawyers marching, getting beaten up, filling the jails, and yet remaining resolute.
Second, policymakers and health-care providers must transform the standard response to TB to make it more equitable, rights-based, non-discriminatory, and people-centered, not just in health settings but also in workplaces, schools, and jails.
Nor did the Swiss react with a “war on drugs” and massive funding for more policing, more jails, and mandatory prison sentences.
American schools, courts, and jails consult it daily, in order to determine whether psychiatric treatment is necessary and reimbursable.
While others took risks or sat in jails, they functioned in official and legal structures.
This meager effort, however, is an insufficient response by Europe’s democracies to the full panoply of Lukashenka’s dictatorship: his docile courts, brutal jails, and corrupt police.
Prisoners held in Israeli jails were granted 20 seats in the enlarged 100-member revolutionary council.
But, to keep Tibetans off the streets, China’s government had to saturate the entire Tibetan plateau with troops and secretly detain in unmarked jails hundreds of people for “legal education.”
The 2009 “World Prison Population List” compiled by the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College, London, put the total number of inmates in Chinese jails at 1.57 million – larger than the population of Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Swaziland, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji, or Qatar.
One group of prisoners that will likely benefit from the current situation are Jordanians held in Israeli jails.
Meanwhile, in Russia, cases of drug resistant tuberculosis have risen sharply since 1990, especially in the nation’s overcrowded jails.
With no prospect for a fair trial in the foreseeable future, Qaddafi officials languish in jails.
The judge and his team visited the five N'Djamena jails, including one in the presidential compound, where Habré's American-trained political police systematically tortured prisoners.
Tuberculosis is now epidemic within Russia’s prisons and jails.
Some years later, Winston Churchill asked Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who had spent nearly a decade of his life in British jails, about his apparent lack of bitterness.
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