Prison in sentence

1866 examples of Prison in a sentence

So as you can probably tell, one of the defining aspects of prison life is ingenuity.

But there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that, no rehabilitation at all in prison, no one to help them write a business plan, figure out a way to translate the business concepts they intuitively grasp into legal enterprises, no access to the Internet, even.

For example, the incarceration rate, the prison population in this country has quadrupled since 1980.

Also, if you look at prison movies, sometimes the way that the guards torture the prisoners is to get them to dig a hole, and when the prisoner is finished, they ask him to fill the hole back up and then dig again.

In Rwanda, they are now getting 75 percent of their cooking fuel in their prison system from the contents of prisoners' bowels.

So these are a bunch of inmates in a prison in Butare.

He'd served six months in prison, lost his truck license for a decade.

And I'm sitting there in this makeshift prison in the north of Iraq with this 23-year-old who had actually trained as a suicide bomber before defecting.

Many times, the prison authorities have denied ever having issues of drug abuse, issues of sodomy, so many issues they would deny that it ever happens.

So I was in the prison.

It was easier to get cannabis, heroin and cocaine, faster even, in the prison than outside the prison.

So I went through the very legal process, because at the end of the day, the prison authorities want to check whether indeed you have been there or not, and that's how I got in there.

He's decreased his voting in presidential elections, and he's started to go to prison a lot more often.

My father, hiding nearby, reveals himself, and was summarily taken to prison.

I think I went to prison first.

They spent 10, 20, 30 years in prison for these crimes, and now DNA testing has proven that they are actually innocent.

If you're sentenced to a jail term in Santa Barbara, California, you should know that if you don't like the standard accommodations, you can buy a prison cell upgrade.

In Britain, 63 percent of all men who come out of short sentences from prison re-offend again within a year.

And how many previous times do you think they've been in prison?

I mean, there's prison costs, there's police costs, there's court costs, all these things that you're spending money on to deal with these guys.

Do you want to also help government find whether there's a better economic model, not just leaving these guys to come out of prison and waiting till they re-offend and putting them back in again, but actually working with them to move to a different path to end up with fewer crimes and fewer victims?

Now, each of those cohorts would get measured over the two years that they were coming out of prison.

Instead of just coming out of the prison with 46 pounds in their pocket, half of them not knowing where they're spending their first night out of jail, actually, someone meets them in prison, learns about their issues, meets them at the gate, takes them through to somewhere to stay, connects them to benefits, connects them to employment, drug rehabilitation, mental health, whatever's needed.

More troublingly, 27 percent of offenders in prison have spent some time in care.

Mandela said often that the gift of prison was the ability to go within and to think, to create in himself the things he most wanted for South Africa: peace, reconciliation, harmony.

Almost seven in 10 people who are released from prison will be rearrested in a constant cycle of crime and incarceration.

It's how we can make our streets safer, we can reduce our prison costs, and we can make our system much fairer and more just.

These figures are sort of entrapped within this very strong grid, which is like a prison, but also a fortress, because it allows them to be oblivious and naive and carefree and quite oblivious of the external world.

I met Joe 13 years ago on the lifer wing at Wormwood Scrubs high-security prison in London.

That meant they were the most callous and the most aggressive of the entire prison population.

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