Sentence examples for a large jail from inspiring English sources

From there, a helicopter took him to a large jail compound, where hundreds of bystanders, many of them exiles driven by war from the former Yugoslavia, applauded outside the prison walls.

Given the transient nature of the inmates in our custody, the medical professionals do their best to address the medical needs of a large jail population.

Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail".

Solis argued for a smaller central facility and Knabe said he wanted the option of a larger jail in case the plan to divert mentally ill arrestees isn't successful.

So when the sheriff proposed a large new jail complex, it came as no surprise.

But this time the measures -- including new guidelines on how guards may use force, additional guard training and the installation of more video cameras -- are being applied throughout the city's system, including the large jail complex on Rikers Island.

But those monitors say that they receive six or seven complaints a week now, primarily from the two large jails in downtown Los Angeles that house thousands of men.

Baroness Corston's 2007 report, launched after a series of suicides in women's jails, called for large jails to be replaced by smaller units and recommended that only the most serious and violent offenders be given prison sentences.

Dickey said mortalities were high as people in jail often have drug and mental health-related illnesses, which contribute to a large number of jail suicides.

In 1980, government at all levels spent less than $5 billion on drug control and incarcerated about 50,000 Americans for nonviolent drug offenses; today, it spends some $40 billion and jails more than 450,000 (more than Europe, with a larger population, jails for everything).

Some rural counties, seeking to make the arrangement profitable, built large jails with excess capacity.