Sentence examples for over the prisons from inspiring English sources

Authorities said the switch was necessary to regain control over the prisons, where criminal and political organizations often held sway.

Those are the moments when I was reminded that underneath the history that has been made, there was a human being who chose hope over fear – progress over the prisons of the past.

Pressure from Catholic Ireland on Mrs Thatcher to compromise with the IRA over the prisons dispute was increased yesterday with a passionate appeal from the Irish primate, Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich.

When word of the opposition Northern Alliance's advance toward Herat spread, the prisoners rebelled and took over the prison.

When the prisoners in the tunnel finally burst out, they found the other inmates were taking over the prison.

Ms. Varela, who took over the prison system in July, said she was working to reduce weapons and drugs in prisons.

The men who started the protest that morning had no intention of taking over the prison.

"Within the week we were locked down, we took over the prison in a nonviolent way," Mike said.

American forces took over the prison, just west of Baghdad, which was notorious during the Saddam Hussein government.

The documents could provide firsthand reports on the hours after inmates took over the prison, killing one guard and three fellow inmates.

One judge on the panel, Thelton E. Henderson, already appointed a federal receiver to take over the prison health care system.