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Prison in sentence

1866 examples of Prison in a sentence

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
A German prison camp.
They've taken to just firing into the prison camp at random for fun.
So Cochrane then goes to the Germans who are running the prison camp.
Six weeks into his prison sentence, van Meegeren confessed.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of people who deserve to be in prison.
Despite this, McKinley is still in prison.
By the time they reach the age of 14, one in four black children will see their dad go off to prison.
As Sheila Phipps said, there are people who belong in prison, but it's hard to tell the guilty from the innocent when everyone's outcomes are so similar.
And when I worked in the prison system, it was so clear to me, this: that many of us in this room, and almost all of the men that I worked with on death row, the seeds of their own compassion had never been watered.
At his open prison, he came under the influence of financial fraudsters, and those financial fraudsters persuaded him to work for them on his release.
He failed, fortunately, but he was still sentenced to seven years in prison.
When he was in prison, they showed a film about the Holocaust.
And eventually, after prison, Bassam went on to get a master's degree in Holocaust studies and he founded an organization where former Palestinian combatants and Israeli combatants come together, work together, try to find common ground.
This is the proportion of the population in prison.
But it goes from about 40 to 400 people in prison.
So when we meet in my philosophy class in his prison and I say, "In this class, we will discuss the foundations of ethics," Tony interrupts me.
Socrates died in prison, his philosophy intact.
His body is in prison, but his mind is free.
In 1994, I walked into a prison in Cambodia, and I met a 12-year-old boy who had been tortured and was denied access to counsel.
And even 20 years later, there was only 10 lawyers in the country, so consequently you'd walk into a prison and not only would you meet 12-year-old boys, you'd meet women and you'd say, "Why are you here?"
In Burundi I walked into a prison and it wasn't a 12-year-old boy, it was an 8-year-old boy for stealing a mobile phone.
And she said "Yeah, but she's why I'm here," because she was accused of stealing two diapers and an iron for her baby and still had been in prison.
And when I walked up to the prison director, I said, "You've got to let her out.
And he said, "Okay, we can talk about it, but look at my prison.
Vishna was a 4-year-old boy when I met him who was born in a Cambodian prison in Kandal Province.
But because he was born in the prison, everybody loved him, including the guards, so he was the only one who was allowed to come in and out of the bars.
He was born in a prison with almost nothing, no material goods, but he had a sense of his own heroic journey, which I believe we are all born into.
When Mandela came out of prison after 27 years of captivity, if he had told his people, "It's time to take up the arms, it's time to fight," he would have been followed.
My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.
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