(n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
(v. t.) To imprison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
(3) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(4) He is not the only jailed or exiled opponent of the CCP.
(5) The private eye was well known to the News of the World, having worked for the paper for several years before he was jailed, when Coulson was deputy editor.
(6) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(8) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(9) But Gashi told the Guardian: "I am responsible for innocent people going to jail.
(10) The highly critical report brought an immediate response from Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, who said the jail would receive the support it needed to build on its recent progress.
(11) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(12) His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian jail in 2009 after being refused medical treatment.
(13) I'm here to defend her 'til the end even if they put me in jail."
(14) Also in June, a former welfare minister, Shlomo Benizri , was jailed for four years for taking bribes while in office.
(15) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
(16) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
(17) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
(18) To gauge whether more stringent civil commitment criteria have led to the criminalization of mentally ill persons, forcing them into jails and prisons instead of treating them, a statewide sample of 1,226 civil commitment candidates in North Carolina was tracked for six months after their commitment hearings.
(19) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(20) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
Remand
Definition:
(v. t.) To recommit; to send back.
(n.) The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
(2) He appeared at Ipswich magistrates court on Monday and was remanded in custody.
(3) Reducing the remand time in prison for people accused of minor offences who would not get a prison sentence on conviction will save a further 1,300 places a year.
(4) However in a statement released in response to the Amnesty International report, corrective services minister Joe Francis said the government makes “no apology for detaining young people who commit violent crimes,” and suggested all Aboriginal young people who are currently in detention are either serving a sentence or are on remand for “extremely serious crimes,” including murder.
(5) In 1990 he was held on remand for almost a year charged with possessing documents likely to be of use to terrorists.
(6) Would he have been remanded in custody in a different atmosphere?
(7) And that being the case, should they be remanded in custody over the possession of an Oyster card not registered to them and the theft of a mirror?
(8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
(9) Indigenous people make up 40% of people jailed or held on remand in WA, despite being only 3.5% of the population.
(10) Four young Egyptians have been remanded in custody, accused of making fun of the government in a satirical video posted on social networks, according to judicial sources.
(11) Pineda, who was not immediately charged, has been remanded in custody for 40 days while investigations continue.
(12) Tomkins spent 17 months on remand in Birmingham's Winson Green prison before he was acquitted.
(13) Amazon recently started blocking pre-orders and delaying shipments on certain Hachette titles as part of a move to remand a higher cut of the retail price.
(14) The prevalence of mental disorder amongst prisoners refusing food was studied by examining the prison records of a remand prison and a dispersal prison.
(15) Consecutive female admissions to the Winnipeg Remand Centre were studied and data concerning personal history, family background, psychological factors and mental health were recorded.
(16) One 35-year-old solicitor said: "Remand [in custody] was used as a sword, as opposed to a shield."
(17) Assange, the most famous inmate in the Victorian jail, met his legal team after being sent there on remand when he was refused bail on Tuesday.
(18) Michael Adebowale I sentence you to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 45 years less 272 days spent on remand.
(19) Peter got six years (which means he will serve three years minus the 150 days he has spent in remand) and a five-year extended licence period.
(20) Nearly 40% of remanded adolescents scored above the recommended cut-off scores of the YSR, a figure four times greater than that found among adolescents living in the community.