behind bars

Mr Sullivan told me about his modest ambition - an ambition that he said he had lost hope of being able to realise at some points over his nearly four decades behind bars.

Only one defendant, who was not present, was sentenced to a prison term that must be served behind bars due to "extremely serious acts", the presiding judge said in the decision.

Only one deputy spent any time behind bars.

Under the law, senior drugs convicts are made to serve their terms in isolation in a specially converted prison where it is hoped it will be harder to continue running operations from behind bars.

So far, Suzanne Braden reports, poaching has been nearly eliminated—thanks to extreme penalties that can include up to ten years behind bars.