Sentence examples for upheld prison from inspiring English sources

The authorities said prison officials helped the Zetas prisoners to escape, and arrested 28 guards.Ecuador's supreme court upheld prison sentences of three years and fines totalling $40m against a columnist and the owners of El Universo, an opposition newspaper, for libelling Rafael Correa, the country's president.

In July, an appeals court upheld prison sentences of 10 years each for three of her in-laws, a decision heralded as a legal triumph underscoring the advances for women's rights in the past decade.

CAIRO — A court in Bahrain on Monday upheld prison sentences for 13 of the country's most prominent dissidents, in a decision that government opponents offered as evidence that the monarchy was ignoring calls to negotiate a political solution that could quiet a nearly two-year-old uprising.

The decision in that case, Turner v. Safley, said that courts should generally uphold prison regulations that are "reasonably related to a legitimate penological interest".

On August 1st the supreme court upheld a prison sentence against him for tax fraud.

Last month, a judge upheld a prison sentence for a human rights advocate, Nabeel Rajab, who was convicted of inciting protests.

Two of the brothers have left the country and a third took refuge this month in the Panamanian Embassy in Quito after the Supreme Court upheld the prison sentence.

Then, in July, he ran out of maneuvering room: Italy's highest court upheld a prison term against him for tax fraud.

The Supreme Court had upheld a prison sentence for Mr Berlusconi and asked the Senate to re-examine a ban on holding public office.

(In 2006, when Beard v. Banks upheld a prison's right to deny inmates access to printed matter, religious and legal texts were among those excepted).

A federal appeals court has upheld the prison term for an admitted drug smuggler wounded in a shooting by Border Patrol agents.