(n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(2) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(3) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(5) This is Selim’s second time in prison,” says Suleiman.
(6) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
(7) Thirteen per cent were in prison and 12% were resident in a therapeutic community.
(8) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(10) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(11) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
(12) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(13) A lfred Ekpenyong knows first hand how tough it can be to find a secure foothold in mainstream society after leaving prison.
(14) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(15) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(16) Espinosa wrote that time has now come, with 15 of his group of prisoners having been released, six executed, and American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller killed in a bombing of Isis positions last month.
(17) 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”.
(18) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
(19) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(20) Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison.
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.