Sentence examples for penal complex from inspiring English sources

Strauss-Kahn, who is being held at the notorious Rikers Island penal complex in New York, was denied bail on Monday at a court appearance when prosecutors successfully argued he was a flight risk.

Strauss-Kahn, who is being held at Rikers Island penal complex in New York, was denied bail on Monday at a court appearance where prosecutors successfully argued he was a flight risk.

But there is another building, far from Dallas on land leased from Cuba, that symbolizes Mr. Bush's legacy in a darker, truer way: the military penal complex at Guantánamo Bay where Mr. Bush imprisoned hundreds of men after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a vast majority guilty of no crime.

With 14-15,000 prisoners and 17 penal colonies, this is one of the largest penal complexes in Europe.

To those who knew her, Mrs. Margolis was so utterly at home at Rikers that it seemed simply as if she had always been on the island, which is home to one of the largest penal complexes in the world.

*And speaking of prisons, thanks to nearly unqualified ― sometimes almost irrational ― U.S. support for Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank increasingly resemble walled off penal complexes.

Yet that's not all; you have to think about the interests of the penal-industrial complex — prison operators, bail-bond companies and more.

In the unfinished book America, we get a lavish description of Karl's writing desk, a large machine as complex as the penal torture apparatus: it has a "regulator" dial that sets its parts in motion, making some panels rise and others sink, reminding Karl of the mechanical Christmas displays he watched as a child.

The Blackburn Correctional Complex, a minimum-security penal facility near Lexington, Kentucky, was named in his honor in 1972.

The entrance to a section of prison cells at Talavera Bruce, one of the 17 penal units inside the notorious Bangu complex on the outskirts of Rio.

People who initially thought the mechanics of the courts were totally indecipherable eventually are discussing complex aspects of the law like penal codes, pretrial motions and defense theories after a few weeks of attendance.