Sentence examples for down a jail from inspiring English sources

U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin handed down a jail term of one year and a day, followed by three years probation, and ordered Bourke to pay a $1 million fine in an afternoon hearing at the federal court in Manhattan.

The cellmates flagged down a jail deputy, who asked Losorelli whether he wanted to move somewhere else.

"At my age I don't want to go sit down in a jail," she said.

As we know, Bernard B. Kerik's name came down from a jail in Lower Manhattan and Sonny Carson's name did not go up on a street in Brooklyn, and hands were wrung in both situations.

The judge referred the case back to the Court of Appeal to decide whether the court martial had the power to hand down a greater jail term than the 12-months suspended sentence appeal judges had imposed.

Efforts by Mr. Yanukovich, an iron-fisted leader who was narrowly elected in 2010, to integrate the country more closely with Western Europe stumbled this month after a court handed down a harsh jail sentence to Ukraine's opposition leader, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, The Times reported.

I asked Rucker about his new life on the outside, what he remembers from the inside, and what he thinks about reforming and maybe even closing down a massive jail like Rikers Island.

On Saturday, an Egyptian court handed down a two-year jail sentence and a fine of about $560.

A Chinese court has handed down a 10-year jail sentence to Chen Xi, the second dissident in four days to be convicted of inciting subversion through online essays.

The district judge John Zani, sitting at Westminster magistrates court, handed down a 10-week jail term suspended for two years and a £1,080 fine, and ordered Joyce to attend a rehabilitation programme.

Deborah Sontag (NYT) IRAN: JAILED FOR ATTACK -- A revolutionary court handed down a 15-year jail sentence to Said Asghar, a chemistry student accused of shooting a leading Iranian reformer, Said Hajarian, the official news agency reported.