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jailed

adjective as in arrested

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Jailed in England in 1973, after their part in a series of London car bombings, the sisters go on a hunger strike — they want to be moved to a women’s prison in Ireland — and are force-fed, a process shown with disturbing exactitude.

Foden was jailed for 17 years in July after sexually abusing four girls over a four-year period.

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He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 48 years in prison.

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Last month, former prison officer Richard Goss was jailed for four years after admitting to smuggling drugs, needles, and mobile phones into HMP Buckley Hall in Rochdale.

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The third signatory, Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei - who is now a British citizen - said he had been beaten, tortured and jailed for calling for peaceful change.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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