Prison in sentence

1866 examples of Prison in a sentence

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?"

At the time, the English prison system was abysmally bad.

Unsurprisingly, the exertion combined with poor nutrition saw many prisoners suffer breakdowns and injuries, not that prison guards seemed to care.

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.

Speaking of justice, there's another phenomenon going on in our culture that I find deeply troubling, and that is that America, right now, has the largest percentage of its population in prison of any country on Earth.

One out of four people, one out of four humans in prison are Americans, imprisoned in our country.

So, I wanted to show 2.3 million prison uniforms, and in the actual print of this piece, each uniform is the size of a nickel on its edge.

I eventually served 10 years, two months and seven days of a prison sentence.

Interestingly, it was during those years in prison that a series of letters redeemed me, helped me move beyond the darkness and the guilt associated with the worst moment of my young life.

My friends Bill and Cory and Arocks, all in prison for violent crimes also, shared their words of wisdom with the young people as well, and received the sense of relevancy in return.

Somebody's mum has heard that Sophie's dad is in prison.

In the United Kingdom, 200,000 children experience the shame and isolation of a parent in prison.

I read to my boys every night, and ironically, our favorite story was "Burglar Bill." (Laughter) But when I got to prison, it soon became apparent that my background was very different to that of most of the prisoners.

I can tell you firsthand that prison is dehumanizing.

In fact, maintaining contact with your family from prison can be very difficult indeed.

And if a child does get to see their parent in prison, they have to go through the same pat-down searches as the adults.

Storybook Dads began in 2003, when Sharon Berry, a civilian worker in a prison, realized just how much many prisoners wanted to stay in contact with their children.

You may wonder: How does the recording of the stories work in prison?

And the experience and skill which the prison editors gain helps them in their future employment.

You see, Mr. Stuckey died in prison at 34 years old, and his mother sat at counsel table in his place.

If it did, Mr. Stuckey wouldn't have died in prison.

This is the day he was released from prison.

But culture can also be what has been decided to be culture by those who have a political stake in pounding culture into the shape of a prison.

But in prison, he started to work hard.

In prison, Tyrique was actually aimless at first, as a 22-year-old on Rikers Island.

So then he was able to get a master's in social work, and today, he even lectures at Columbia about prison reform.

It's one I suffered a chronic case of, so much so that I spent 24 years of a life sentence in prison for kidnapping, robbery, and attempted murder.

So how did I wind up serving life in the California prison system?

My subsequent choices put me on the fast track to prison life.

And even once in prison, I continued my history of running over the rights of others, even knowing that that was the place that I would die.

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