jail
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The late patriarch Manuel “Matty” Moroun, then 84, was found in contempt in 2012 for failing to make court-ordered repairs to the Ambassador Bridge and spent a night in jail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
He was sentenced to three days in jail and a $1,500 fine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In recent years, the nonprofit A Step to Freedom has grown rapidly, collecting millions of dollars from the government to house and feed homeless people coming out of jail in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
South Korean prosecutors sought a one-year jail term for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
I wondered: Did they lock kids in jail?
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Crisscrossing the country — from his hometown in Virginia to California, Florida and Maryland — Truelove moved between the streets, jails, homeless shelters and psychiatric facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Tens of thousands of inmates have been let out of prison to create more space in jails since 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
There are even miniature jails you can lock your phone in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Proponents of more inclusive diversion policies argue that many people with mental health issues are locked up in California prisons and jails, where they are unable to receive the help they need.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
On the evening of the march, with more than nine hundred arrested children filling Birmingham’s jails, Dr. King held a mass church meeting.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
An alternative healer jailed over the death of a woman at one of his workshops has been released from prison just 18 months into a 10-year sentence, it is understood.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
They were all jailed in 2020: Long for 16 years and Bowers and Cole for 13 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In fairness, Mr. Trump succeeded in pressing China to free a jailed Christian pastor, Ezra Jin, whose children are U.S. citizens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
A businesswoman who fraudulently claimed about £200,000 in Covid loans because of a "messy divorce" has been jailed.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The mournful lawyers showed in court that that man had nothing to do with the company and in order that no one doubt their arguments they had him jailed as an impostor.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in 2024 that Canberra was "gravely concerned" about the jailing of Ng and other Hong Kong activists.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
"It was first disbelief," he said, when he first saw reports of her jailing.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
ICE held her incommunicado for 24 hours and then shuffled her through three states before jailing her in Louisiana.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
As well as jailing him, District Judge Arvind Sharma also imposed a new indefinite restraining order.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
Lafayette’s reputation in the black community was raised another notch when he went to court to fight his arrest and jailing on a false charge of vagrancy.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
