jail
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In March, Luna asked the National Institute of Corrections to conduct a review of jail conditions after a period in which 10 inmates died in custody in less than three months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Maduro and Flores are slated for a trial in New York next June and are currently being held in a Brooklyn jail.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Lawyers for Flores have argued that she should be freed from jail due to health concerns with her heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He had been released on licence from HMP Wandsworth on 17 October 2025 after being sentenced the day before to a 12-month jail term for possession of a bladed article and harassment.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
It was replaced by, Do they deserve merely to be fired, or should they be put in jail?
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The office also can lift obstacles to building more affordable housing, while using its prosecutor role to shift many homeless offenders to diversion programs “rather than cycling people between jails and our streets,” Roy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Some prisons hold more than 1,000 inmates - like large Victorian jails.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
In March, Luna also reached out to the National Institute of Corrections to examine conditions at Los Angeles County jails after a rash of in-custody jail deaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In 2015, the Sheriff’s Department entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to implement reforms on mental health and use-of-force in its jails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Judge Petts said Kershaw needed to be jailed as a "deterrent" to other cashiers so as to "prevent others from doing the same".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
He was only 7 in 1977 when he, one of his brothers and his father were jailed for the crime of trying to escape communist Vietnam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Prosecutors have said she should remain jailed, arguing she is a flight risk and has no ties to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Its tentacles reached into the heart of the Albanian government, with top officials including an environment minister jailed for graft.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
“If this doesn’t work,” he said aloud, “I’ll have to feed the little eyas. That will change her whole life. “I also might be jailed for harboring an endangered species.”
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Back then, prisons were rapidly running out of cells because courts were jailing more criminals than the number being released - part of a 30-year trend.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Troops were also deployed to enforce strict Covid‑19 lockdowns in 2020 and during the deadly riots sparked by the jailing of ex‑president Jacob Zuma in 2021.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
His jailing sparked large-scale protests by supporters, which were met with a crackdown by authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Despite Sheriff McGinty stating the seriousness of Neil's crimes passing the threshold for custody, he decided against jailing him to due his "advanced years", lack of previous convictions and low risk of re-offending.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
But I wanted to like it, because gallery work was the essential job of jailing.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
