Sentence examples for been held in lockdown from inspiring English sources
Lawmakers in Parliament, who had been held in lockdown for hours after Wednesday's attack, honored victims with a moment of silence on Thursday at 9 33 a.m.
In addition, inmates were nine times more likely to be held in lockdown in private facilities, compared with state-run ones.
A family describes being held in lockdown inside the soft play area close to the Nuneaton bowling alley siege.
When I first got to county jail, I was being held in the lockdown unit where they hold all the serious people, all the mental health patients.
Chapo, who is currently being held in extreme lockdown at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, has reportedly met with at least 16 private attorneys in recent months.
According to statistics filed by the government in court, the units Ogiamien and Nguyen were held in were under lockdown 46percentt of the time in 2014, and in 2015 that went up to 55percentt.
When the prison is on lockdown, inmates can be held in their cells all day.
A total of 84 inmates who were held in Brooklyn in terrorism investigations were subjected to highly restrictive, 23-hour "lockdown," the report found.
The Department of Health and Human Services has denied that children at the new Grevillea unit were held in solitary, saying: "The Grevillea unit will operate as any other youth justice facility and standard management does not involve 20 hours of lockdown per day".
The city of Taiz, south of the capital, remained in a state of lockdown, days after government forces and plainclothes gunmen opened fire on a vast crowd of peaceful protesters who had been holding a sit-in for months.
