Sentence examples for held prison from inspiring English sources

A Ministry of Justice statement denied that the inmates were drunk on hooch – homebrewed alcohol – and had held prison officers hostage, demanding Mcdonald's burgers.

In an interview two days earlier, Mr. Nour's wife held prison documents in her hand that she said proved that the government was planning to keep her husband behind bars beyond his earliest possible parole date, July 21.

Here the conflict between the allure of worldly success and the deeper satisfactions of the soul is dramatized in the balmy climes of Hollywood during the heyday of the studio system, when big stars were held prison in their gilded cages by ironclad contracts.

It's horrible to see that so many people in leadership positions are held prison by their quirks and fears, taking it out on the people that work for them.

Judge Jackson threatened to hold prison officials in contempt if they failed to release Mr. Wallace immediately.

I was taken to Shrewsbury prison and then moved to Wormwood Scrubs, which was the holding prison, while they waited for a place at Feltham Young Offenders.

This murky institution, which opened in 1836 and only closed in 2004, has a notorious history as the holding prison for Missouri's death row inmates.

Minimum custody inmates hold prison jobs as janitors, groundskeepers and kitchen workers.

They eat in the mess hall, hold prison jobs, participate in sports and other activities and a host of rehabilitation programs.

To prepare for their performance, "Mohammed and I went to prisons in West Africa, these holding prisons in castles that had been there for centuries," Anderson said.

This could reduce prison numbers because about one-fifth of those held in prison are on remand awaiting trial.