Sentence examples for jails like from inspiring English sources

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Inmates must use carbon paper: the jails like copies of all outgoing post.

Some jails, like Harris County's, are the size of small towns and house thousands of inmates.

Jails like Manchester and Hindley are run like conveyor belts, different bodies coming and going all the time.

The notorious cellblocks of chaotic jails like Rikers Island and the Tombs were so quiet it was almost spooky.

The jails, like everything else, weren't functional, and he was keeping nearly two hundred prisoners — looters, mainly — in a makeshift lockup in the local Amtrak station.

However, the realities of solitary confinement playing out in other correctional institutions across the country — including county jails, like the one I run — remain unaddressed and misunderstood.

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Beyond the problems outlined by Ms. Danticat, immigration detainees are overwhelmingly detained in jails and jail-like facilities despite the limited "civil" authority under which they are held.

When that site is full, an older facility with enclosed, jail-like cells processes families several blocks away.

He is standing behind bars, jail-like bars, shouting into a crowd that is pushing, punching, thrusting money at him.

They do not offer, for example, alternatives to jail-like detention, even for unaccompanied minors, the elderly, the disabled or pregnant women.

A paper released on June 20, 2016 by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School concludes that the United States has violated its international obligations by detaining asylum seekers in jail-like facilities and by providing insufficient safeguards against return to persecution.

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