The majority of prison sentences were for less than 2 years and most participants had a long history, from a young age, of enmeshment in the criminal justice system.
This not only provides the correct segmentation for the vast majority of sentences, but also has the advantage that the most likely syntactic roles of the words are given, which makes it possible to additionally calculate PoS-dependent frequencies.
Rideau spent the majority of his sentence in Angola State Penitentiary (also known as the Farm), where he started writing a column about prison life called The Jungle.
Previously, the majority of those sentenced in the country's Buddhist-Muslim violence have been Muslims, even though Muslims have suffered most of the casualties over a year of sporadic outbursts of anger between the two groups.
As Tables 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and also Figure 3 demonstrate, multiple charges also raise the likelihood that the majority of individual sentencing components will be included in the judge's order.
Wallace served the majority of his sentence in solitary confinement.
After being sentenced, I was placed in a sweatbox and taken to a remand prison, where I was to be held until they decided what jail I would be held in for the majority of my sentence.
It was part of a larger amnesty of political prisoners over 70, however, and as the majority of his sentence had been served, this was one of many empty gestures the Syrian regime would make to suppress protests.
It is more expensive to incarcerate a person in Germany—roughly 120 euros ($135) a day per prisoner, according to Meinen, as opposed to an average of about $85 in the US but with far fewer prisoners (the vast majority of sentences are two years or less), there are more resources to train officers extensively in psychology and hire therapists to work with the men and women who do go to prison.
Although these sentences are grammatically correct, they violate a strong "agent-first" bias in English (and many other languages), in which the performer of an action is mentioned first in the vast majority of sentences.
