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Prison in sentence

1866 examples of Prison in a sentence

Even in prison, it's no small thing to lock someone up.
It's no small thing to change a prison system.
So next, I got reassigned as superintendent of a small prison.
She looked at my small prison and what she saw was a laboratory.
I don't see my job as to punish them or forgive them, but I do think they can have decent and meaningful lives even in prison.
We don't have to stay stuck in old ideas about prison.
And what he said was that this mindset, this framework discovered by Bentham, was the key means of societal control for modern, Western societies, which no longer need the overt weapons of tyranny — punishing or imprisoning or killing dissidents, or legally compelling loyalty to a particular party — because mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective than brute force could ever be.
And at the end of this jirga, it was ordered by the judge that the first decision was erased, and that the $2,500 debt was satisfied, and we all signed a written order where all the men acknowledged that what they did was illegal, and if they did it again, that they would go to prison.
Also the same color as the prison cell.
It's the people I meet who have lost someone they love to drug-related violence or prison or overdose or AIDS because our drug policies emphasize criminalization over health.
The obstacles to reform lie not just out there in the power of the prison industrial complex or other vested interests that want to keep things the way they are, but within each and every one of us.
But my brother, who is older than me, was arrested when he was 18, taken to prison on charges of throwing stones.
He was beaten up when he refused to confess that he threw stones, and as a result, had internal injuries that caused his death soon after he was released from prison.
The first time I visited the prison, I was not surprised by the noise of the padlocks, or the closing doors, or the cell bars, or by any of the things I had imagined.
Maybe because the prison is in a quite open space.
But in fact, the gulls are looking for food in the dump near the prison.
The prison service ceded some land at the end of the prison, which is where they constructed the University Center building.
Right then I decided that I wanted poetry to enter the prison.
But what I hadn't considered was that inequality exists in prison, too.
One of them once said: "In prison you never sleep.
It's in this prison universe that you have all around you.
In prison there are things that can't be done.
In prison, you can't dream.
In prison, you can't cry.
And so you feel that at least in a small way you're repairing that huge social fracture which makes it so that for many of them, prison is their only destination.
They have to get into their heads, search for that bit of freedom that can never be taken away when they write and that is also useful to realize that freedom is possible even inside a prison, and that the only bars we have in our wonderful space is the word "bars," and that all of us in our hell burn with happiness when we light the wick of the word.
I told you a lot about the prison, a lot about what I experience every week, and how I enjoy it and transform myself with the inmates.
This also allows us to make a big operation to seize corruption and illegal activities that ended up having 700 people in prison, including a lot of public servants.
It's sad to report that while I was in prison, I used to hear dudes talking about when they get released from prison, what type of crimes they're going to commit when they get back in the street.
But I will tell you this: Being in jail and being in prison, I came across some of the most intelligent, brilliant, and talented people that I would ever meet.
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