Sentence examples for jail change from inspiring English sources

Nor would sending parents to jail change their preference for faith healing, Dr. Diekema said.

In the rare case when neither conjunction alone conveys the meaning, recast the sentence: as Ted Bernstein put it in "The Careful Writer," when "the law allows a $25 fine and/or 30 days in jail," change it to "a $25 fine or 30 days in jail or both".

"These are going to make people rich, put people in jail, change destinies and lives.

"Jail changed me in that I read more in those four years than I have read in 40 years, and I have written more in those four years than I have written in 40 years," he said.

On September 18th the release of graphic videos showing the beating, rape and humiliation of prisoners in one of Tbilisi's jails changed that.

She said she was often beaten by her father, a distillery worker, who turned her over to the police when she was 16 — in the vain hope, she says, that jail might change her gender expression.

Analysis The only new policy in home affairs in the Tory manifesto is the promise of a new semi-custodial sentence to introduce a "short, sharp spell" in jail to change the behaviour of prolific offenders.

It would also double the mandatory penalty for repeat burglars under the state's "three strikes" laws to two years' jail and change the rules so that a person does not have to go before a magistrate to get a "strike".

Five of them can't stay out of jail; they change their fucking phone numbers all the time.

Attwood agrees that going to jail has changed his life for the better, but only because of his own determination.

After Mr. Johnson's death this month, the jail again changed policy and said inmates would have to share cells at all times.