Sentence examples for in jails instead from inspiring English sources

And in California, that investment needs to be made not just in state prisons but in county jails too, since realignment has meant that many offenders who would have served their terms in prison are incarcerated in jails instead.

Why, Johnson demands, expand the mental health treatment capacity in jails instead of putting the money into community clinics of the type that were supposed to be built (but weren't) when state mental hospitals were closed beginning in the 1960s?

Women abused by their husbands or families too often end up in jail instead of their abusers.

The New York City police are cracking down on peaceful demonstrators by requiring a night in jail instead of a summons.

Spending years in jail instead of prison is an increasing possibility now, as California carries out the most far-reaching overhaul of its criminal justice system in decades.

"They would come looking for Salih, and if he wasn't at home they'd put me in jail instead," Yurdagul says in Kurdish.

Sometimes, this is the critical evidence that puts men and women in jail instead of leaving them, say, planning to rob banks or sitting at home building bombs.

Farc members who committed or ordered atrocities but confess their crimes will avoid serving their sentences in jail, instead performing "community service" projects and acts of reparation.

He said he was unable to pay the $2,500 fine, which means he'll serve a month in jail instead.

In Hawaii, a program that treats minor infractions of probation with a few days in jail (instead of longer sentences) has successfully reduced recidivism, and is now used in 17 states.

He proposes, for lesser offenders, punishments that are swift and certain but not necessarily severe: a night in jail, instead of a warning, for missing a meeting with a parole officer, say, and ten nights the next time.