Sentence examples for jail took from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stecker, who runs educational programs in the jail, took their request to jail administrators, who embraced the notion.

In April, 80 prisoners on the verge of repatriation at a Chinese border jail took two guards hostage, demanding not to be sent back, North Koreans and aid workers here said.

An embarrassed Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., the county executive, whose office supervises the jail, took full responsibility for what he called "a great mistake" and promised to investigate fully what led to Mr. Murphy's release.

DeJuan C. Hunter, an 18-year-old from Detroit who is in the Macomb County jail awaiting trial on charges of receiving and concealing stolen property, said that he had little money when he was arrested and that the jail took $12 out of his account for a booking fee.

So on the night after the Supreme Court stay of execution, a mob of white men broke into the jail, took Mr. Johnson from his cell, paraded him through the streets and dragged him to a downtown bridge that spanned the Tennessee River.

Breakfast in the jail took four hours to distribute to all the prisoners.

Obviously, jail takes criminals off the streets.

Never knowing whether you're going to be raped, dragged to jail, taken from your children.

Though if you missed it, his wife, Bug, tells the Cuban: "Jail takes all the soul away from you.

THE seven teenagers sit with their feet tucked under tan desks in a classroom in New York City's Rikers Island jail, taking turns answering "icebreaker" questions they've fished from an envelope.

First they keep him for months under house arrest, forbid him to use the internet, then put him on trial, then throw his brother in jail – taking family members hostage is a sensational new strategy," Venediktov told the Guardian.