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Prison in sentence

1866 examples of Prison in a sentence

Filled with terror, Pandora clawed desperately at the air to direct them back into their prison.
So I took a bargain that I'd later see in a prison, a Stasi prison in Berlin, on a sign that read, "He who adapts can live tolerably."
She was thrown in prison in Tibet for two years for putting up a little tiny placard protesting the occupation of her country.
And he spent 33 years in prison.
His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave Tibet.
And we spend 35,000 dollars on average a year keeping a prisoner in prison, and school districts spend 500 dollars a year feeding a child.
Searching your pockets, you find something that might help: a lighter and two fuses you made earlier in the prison work program.
The prison that I was in was the fact that I did not drive or use motorized vehicles.
And so, I want to encourage you to go to that next place, to let yourself out of any prison that you might find yourself in, as comfortable as it may be, because we have to do something now.
So I was arrested quite early in Stalin's purges, and spent 16 months in a Russian prison.
When Patrick got out of prison, his journey was excruciating.
It involved me being searched for contrabands, changed from my ordinary clothes to the prison uniform, forced to squat on the ground, a posture that I soon came to learn would form the routine of the thousands of searches, number counts, that lay ahead of me.
And adjust I did to life on the inside: the prison food, the prison language, the prison life.
As I listened to story after story of these close to 700 women during that one year in prison, I soon realized that crime was not what had brought these women to prison, most of them, far from it.
If any of these women, who were mostly from poor backgrounds, fall through the cracks in the already broken system, the bottom of that chasm is a prison, period.
By the time I completed my one-year sentence at Langata Women Maximum Prison, I had a burning conviction to be part of the transformation to resolve the injustices that I had witnessed of women and girls who were caught up in a revolving door of a life in and out of prison due to poverty.
Every time I go back to prison, I feel a little at home, but it is the daunting work to achieve the vision that keeps me awake at night, connecting the miles to Louisiana, which is deemed as the incarceration capital of the world, carrying with me stories of hundreds of women whom I have met within the prisons, some of whom are now embracing their second chances, and others who are still on that bridge of life's journey.
He had spent a substantial amount of time in prison.
The first patient that we treated was a retired Marine sergeant and a prison corrections officer.
As our prison corrections officer had in 2010, she, in 2012, was admitted to the ICU, and this was the scariest fork in the whole road of this story.
Noor was caught once again and sent to a German prison.
Because the prison wardens were very enthusiastic about this as well, I started a Science and Sustainability Seminar in the prisons.
I brought my scientific colleagues and sustainability practitioners into the prison.
For instance, in 2018, South Korea's president was sentenced to 25 years in prison on corruption-related charges.
The first: a prison cell.
Each lock in the prison works in the same unusual way.
Once out of the cell, they will only have a few moments to crack the lock for the outer prison door too before the guards catch them.
Ethic may have escaped the prison… but what has she gotten herself into?
Louverture was captured, and left to die in a French prison; a fate that Christophe’s nine-year-old son would share only a few years later.
After breaking Ethic out of prison, Hedge flies them both towards a frontier settlement in the shadow of the Bradbarrier, the great wall that encircles the nation.
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