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In 2006, when the Times published a piece revealing that the government, in the name of fighting terrorism, had collected the private financial information of Americans who had nothing to do with terrorism, Cotton, then an Army lieutenant stationed in Baghdad, sent a letter to the newspaper, saying that the editors should be put "behind bars".

You heard of cases in which workers were put behind bars for anti-Semitic acts.

Also, 145 journalists were put behind bars, the highest number since 1996.

Its leaders, the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers, and several of their lieutenants were put behind bars.

While more people were put behind bars, officials released 735,454 prisoners, a 2percentt increase over 2007.

Even if Mr. Francis were put behind bars again, his business could continue.

The judgment also comes shortly after top bosses in the Elf corruption trial were put behind bars.

A few years ago, I wasn't surprised to hear rumors of a study of the nation's prison population which reportedly found that the leading civilian occupation among inmates before they were put behind bars was "cook".

In the past few weeks at least 100 political activists have been rounded up; some human-rights groups put the number at more than 300.The violence in Deraa, which is close to the border with Jordan, erupted after a group of teenagers were put behind bars for writing graffiti denouncing the local government and corruption.

"People got a shock when these guys were put behind bars.

The abuses of the junk bond era came to an end once the likes of Michael Milken Michael Milken were put behind bars.

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