Sentence examples for prison amounts from inspiring English sources

His case has become a rallying cry in Israel, where leaders say his nearly three decades in US prison amounts to excessive punishment.

Yet criminal justice experts say the experience in and around the Lake Erie prison amounts to a cautionary tale for other states considering whether to hand over their own facilities to private corporations.

Or does his incarceration in a small cell in an aging prison amount to unacceptable cruelty?

Their lawyers told the human rights judges that the lack of any regular review of their progress in prison amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment" as they had been condemned to die in prison.

Jeannine Boulanger of Shrewsbury, Mass., whose 21-year-old daughter, Nicole, died, said Mr. Megrahi's eight years in prison amounted to about a dozen days for each victim.

Spending on prisons has increased by 486percentt, adjusted for inflation, since 1980, and the system is now under federal receivership after repeated court rulings finding that crowding in the prisons amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

In 2006, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then governor, said conditions in the state's prisons amounted to a state of emergency.

The act was the state's response to a 2011 US Supreme Court decision that atrocious conditions in California prisons amounted to a violation of the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

Two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the current state prison system amounted to cruel and unusual punishment and demanded changes to improve health and living conditions for prisoners.

It is not inevitable that an open door into the reality of the Maze prison would amount to a celebration of the IRA.

Amid warnings from Tripoli that allowing Megrahi to die in prison would amount to a "death sentence", Bill Rammell, then a Foreign Office minister, passed the message to Abdulati Alobidi, Libya's Europe minister, during a meeting in Tripoli.