Sentence examples for living behind bars from inspiring English sources

"I was living behind bars," Mr. Mellen said.

8 P.M. (Investigation Discovery) PRISON WIVES Women who love men who are locked away for a lifetime: that's the premise of this new reality series, which examines how life sentences affect those living behind bars and their families on the outside.

Similarly, the money spent to house and care for prisoners a proxy for measuring their carbon footprint might be less than the money the prisoners themselves would spend if they were not living behind bars.

One in 99 adults are living behind bars in the U.S.

Most of the those living behind bars in federal prisons are imprisoned for non-violent offenses.

Of that group, 67 had been given life sentences, meaning that up until Wednesday they were living behind bars believing they would die there.

They received bizarre treatments such as blood transfusions, all the while living behind barred windows.

A 2009 report by the Pew center that did count local jail inmates concluded that 1 in 100 adults in the United States lives behind bars.

TOKYO — For more than 17 years, Toshikazu Sugaya, a soft-spoken former kindergarten bus driver, lived behind bars, serving a life sentence for the murder of a 4-year-old girl.

For years, Manning lived behind bars in an all-male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

That's right, one in four of the world's prisoners live behind bars in the "land of the free".