Sentence examples for jails are full from inspiring English sources

This means that jails are full of the innocent alongside the guilty.

"Our jails are full and our people are still dying in custody.

Under Labour, violent crime has fallen substantially, but jails are full and fail to rehabilitate their inmates.

When Willy is boasting to his brother that his sons are "fearless characters," his neighbor Charley wryly comments, "Willy, the jails are full of fearless characters".

The jails are full of people trying to scrape together 100,000 rubles (£1,700) to pay what is effectively a ransom to get them out, he alleges.

"Jails are full of men who get their needs met in direct, pathological ways, and women tend to resort to behaviour that elicits attention in an indirect way".

Its jails were full of prisoners championing democracy.

Within minutes of getting out of the car in Jackson, I was arrested and thrown into a field house with hundreds of protesters, because the city jails were full.

The government put the capital, Colombo, on alert for further attacks.Police in Bangladesh said that all the country's jails were full after 58,000 people suspected of criminal activity had been arrested ahead of a general election due in October.

Speaking on 3AW this morning, former chief magistrate Nick Papas QC explained that it was because the state's jails were full and that it therefore took time for magistrates to find places to put offenders.

"This jail is full of pirates.