Sentence examples for jail to avoid from inspiring English sources

Gang leaders on the streets talked to us and told us that they had received orders via telephone from their superiors in jail to avoid murders at all costs because they were in negotiations with the government.

So far from living to see the progress he thought was almost within our grasp, he was arrested during the Terror, was condemned to death and killed himself in jail to avoid the guillotine.

Its moving story centers on Mel, a young Marine sniper who returns from Iraq with a paralyzing case of post-traumatic stress, and his contentious relationship with his father, Bob, who went to jail to avoid Vietnam.

It resulted in me getting moved from jail to jail to avoid trouble.

He also pointed to a program in New York where the city and state are focusing on "discharge planning," or ways to help people who are exiting psychiatric institutions or jails to avoid ending up on the street.

A headline in Friday's paper was wrong to say the EU had delivered a ruling on whole-life jail sentences (PM backs 100-year jail sentences to avoid EU ruling on whole-life tariffs, page 9).

The Prison Governors Association said medium- to long-term measures included opening enough new and refurbished jail accommodation to avoid the normal emergency measure of using police cells.

He served three years and eleven days -- some of it in solitary confinement -- merely because he is a "public figure" and the jail wanted to avoid trouble with keeping him in general population during several months of his incarceration.

The report raised the possibility that many of the poorer defendants pleaded guilty at arraignment for sentences with no jail time, simply to avoid being behind bars while awaiting trial.

Indeed, the bar mitzvah celebration seemed to breach not only security, but the sense of equal treatment that jails must maintain to avoid inmate unrest.

Mr. Berlusconi could face up to six years in jail for tax fraud if convicted, but has managed to avoid jail in at least seven previous graft trials.