prison

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The former justice secretary also previously served as Welsh secretary, prisons and probation minister and solicitor general.

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Dozens of regular prison officers had fled and been replaced by hard-line Revolutionary Guards.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some local authorities refer to the threat of prison in their first letter to people who have missed a council tax payment, a debt charity has said.

From BBC

Under the reform, courts must stop handing out such short prison terms other than in a number of specific or exceptional circumstances.

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Under Kenya's laws it is illegal for the country's citizens to be conscripted into foreign armies - an offence that can carry up to a 10-year prison sentence.

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