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Not one prisoner anywhere in the United States was subjected to torture in order to assist the government in establishing why the prisoner should be in prison rather than out on the streets.

Admittedly, she is referring to their reading habits in prison rather than outside.

He was sentenced to life in prison rather than the death sentence prosecutors sought.

She told him she wanted him to endure a life sentence in prison rather than face the death penalty.

The defence recommended "the long slow death of a common criminal" in prison, rather than martyrdom through execution.

But Walton ruled last week that Libby should serve 30 months in prison -- rather than the probation he sought.

"It's easier for law enforcement to investigate the assault in the prison rather than the systemic problem of abuse of prisoners," Mr. Waple said.

"Teaching in a prison rather than a school has its challenges," Hewitt-Main says.

That's very possible as the treatments he may have had may have got him to a point where they deem him to be able to be incarcerated in a prison rather than a high-security ward".

"We assessed that although the decision was not one for the U.K. government, British interests — including those of U.K. nationals, British business and possibly security cooperation — would be damaged, perhaps badly, if Megrahi were to die in a Scottish prison rather than in Libya," Mr. Miliband told the House of Commons.

"The thought that tonight he'll be in a Russian prison rather than playing in our seven-a-side football team because he was doing his job is shocking".