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Prison in sentence

1866 examples of Prison in a sentence

One out of three black men between the ages of 18 and 30 is in jail, in prison, on probation or parole.
The United States is the only country in the world where we sentence 13-year-old children to die in prison.
We're trying to reduce the prison population.
That's where the dramatic increases have come in our prison population.
And so we have three strikes laws that put people in prison forever for stealing a bicycle, for low-level property crimes, rather than making them give those resources back to the people who they victimized.
Or like how in Honolulu, the large prison population of native Hawaiians like Kimmy is heavily influenced by the island's long history with US colonialization, its impact passing down through generations to today.
In New York City, in 2018, we have a floating prison barge that sits out there and houses primarily black and brown men who cannot pay their bail.
And yet, a couple of weeks later, he was picked up and taken to prison where he was subjected to a medical exam, including a full-body search in full view of the others in the cell.
So rather than viewing their former regimes as generous if overprotective fathers, they viewed them as essentially prison wardens.
And he's so good at it, that when he was in prison, everybody in prison, the governor and whatever, wanted him to paint masterpieces to put on the walls, because they were so good.
Life in prison.
What has happened instead is that juries have started to sentence more and more people to prison for the rest of their lives without the possibility of parole, rather than sending them to the execution chamber.
And the kids are in prison, but they go to school from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon.
They had to recruit teachers who wanted to teach inside a prison, they had to establish strict separation between the people who work at the school and the prison authorities, and most dauntingly of all, they needed to invent a new curriculum because you know what?
People don't come into and out of prison on a semester basis.
He beat someone up or something, and he decided to fake madness to get out of a prison sentence.
And I was in prison awaiting trial, and my cellmate said to me, 'You know what you have to do? Fake madness.
He said, "Well, I asked to see the prison psychiatrist.
He said, "Oh, from a biography of Ted Bundy that they had at the prison library."
He said, "Well, if I'd just done my time in prison for the original crime, I'd have got five years.
I said, "Could I come and interview you in prison, to find out it you're psychopaths?"
So at 18, I was bonded off to prison in Nigeria.
My story of Nigeria growing up was very different from the story I encountered in prison, and I had no language for it.
And I watched them being locked up in prison and tear gassed.
Other subjects came up almost never, including living conditions that to me looked close to prison life: 10 or 15 workers in one room, 50 people sharing a single bathroom, days and nights ruled by the factory clock.
Sent to prison, adamantly insisting on his innocence, which he has consistently for 21 years.
It was a virtual prison for young people.
It was my first week in federal prison, and I was learning quickly that it wasn't what you see on TV.
Contrary to what most people think, people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life when you're in prison.
You want a cigarette in prison?
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