imprisonment
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He was later awarded nearly $1 million from the Victim Compensation Board of California for his wrongful imprisonment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Hui, 67, was sentenced by a Shenzhen court to life imprisonment and ordered to forfeit all of his personal assets, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A judge sentenced her to life imprisonment, eligible for parole after 33 years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
When the Parole Board approved Razzell's release in April, they said in a statement that the "panel was satisfied that imprisonment was no longer necessary for the protection of the public".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
He reunited with his wife in the final months of his life, as he suffered from ill-health caused by his imprisonments.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
“It’s disturbing, it’s terrifying, and it’s a major violation of protected speech,” Freedom House’s Nate Schenkkan said of the recent imprisonments of Western-based Saudis.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Since the group established the database of imprisonments in 1992, it has become a global benchmark for measuring repression of journalists.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Part of the increase in the 50-plus prison population is due to new imprisonments and reimprisonments because of parole violations.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
Both of us were spared, in body at least, by the stone walls of our different imprisonments, and altered in spirit, in ways we’re struggling to understand.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
