Adam Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Orphan Master's Son," is set in the harsh confines of North Korea; at the other extreme, David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" features a futuristic South Korea-inspired "corpocracy," a hotbed of clones, plastic surgery ("facescaping"), and insurrection.
With time off for good behavior, Perez faces only 16 months behind bars, most of it in a secure Los Angeles jail rather than the harsher confines of a state prison.
The new religion held great appeal, as most of the Sioux bands had suffered harsh privations while confined to reservations: game had all but disappeared; the supplies and annuities promised in treaties were frequently stolen by corrupt officials; and many people lived almost continuously on the verge of starvation.
During about five years of detention, he says, he was confined in harsh conditions, abused during interrogation and denied a lawyer.
Riding them gives him a feeling of freedom and the affection he feels for the animals also helps him to deal with the harsh reality of being confined to the prison compounds.
For some Native Americans, traditional knowledge developed over millennia of living on specific lands has been rendered almost meaningless, with many tribes evicted from the ecosystems they historically occupied and confined to reservations, sometimes on harsh, unproductive land.
At Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class which was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh New England winter and thus was perpetually short-tempered.
"For years I was confined to a rooftop, suffering through harsh weather with a chain so short I could barely move.
Life was harsh, time was precious, and articles of furniture were confined to essentials.
Hubbard maintained a harsh disciplinary regime aboard the fleet, punishing mistakes by confining people in the Royal Scotman bilge tanks without toilet facilities and with food provided in buckets.
Stories abound of harsh punishments imposed for the slightest of offences, women being confined to the home, public crucifixions, kidnappings and extortionate levies imposed on businesses.
