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  • "Jail's the wrong place for burglars, says our new justice minister"

    Archive 2007-05-01 Tracey Crouch 2007

  • "Jail's the wrong place for burglars, says our new justice minister"

    Tough on crime? Tracey Crouch 2007

  • With one of them to lend four feet and save his two, he could be well beyond Jail's reach before the Star Captain knew of his presence.

    Daybreak 2250 AD Norton, Andre 1952

  • "Jail's a mean place," he remarked, with apparent irrelevance.

    Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The same hand, may be, that had blackened over the Jail's weather-boarded front with a coat of tar, had with equal propriety whitewashed the facade of the

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The situation was almost back to normal this morning at the Cook County Jail's inmate intake areas, a day after up to five feet of water flooded the facilities, a sheriff's spokesman said.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

  • Investigators attempted to interview Wyatt at King County Jail's psychiatric ward but were unable to do so because of his mental state.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News 2011

  • The Toronto Jail's sole purpose is to act as a holding tank for a vast spectrum of accused criminals awaiting trial.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

  • A 20-year-old Chicago man who had 72 days left to complete his sentence at the Cook County Jail's boot camp escaped today for about six hours before investigators tracked him after he apparently scaled a barbed wire fence, officials said.

    News - chicagotribune.com By Ca 2012

  • Council Bill Would Limit Jail's Aid to Immigration Officials Rikers Island officials have long compiled lists of foreign-born inmates who end up in their custody.

    NYT > Home Page By SAM DOLNICK 2011

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