| 单词 | jail |
| 例句 | She had heard first a bustling in the front of the jail, and smelled fresh coffee, and had sat up, stiff with apprehension. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, they assassinate them over there; and they jail them and throw away the key over here.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He could go to jail for buying an underage high school senior vodka coolers, right? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t care about the car. I just want to get my friend out of jail.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of a lengthy sentence into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He felt that it was all right for a man to go to jail for robbery, but to go to jail for fooling around with Reds was bunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They are even worse than the boys in jail school. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They were fined a mere one hundred dollars each and sentenced to 180 days in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He went to jail for me, and now he walks away with a few last words. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He only served ten months in the county jail. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In jail, Amma taught me never to pester anyone about their past, but a question slips out of me before I can stop it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z To go to jail in the South would mean the end. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He never went to Camp Greyhound and was only vaguely aware that a jail had been installed there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I didn’t get in contact with my parents until my third day in jail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “I could not see a lady I respected put in jail,” he said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A rope made of South Carolina long staple cotton was displayed outside the jail. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s the bad guy because he puts the other one in jail.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How could I think that, knowing other families of rootworkers had been dragged out of their homes, beaten, and jailed? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Are you sad or mad because I was in jail?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Although he did not go to jail for choking the newspaper reporter, he was forced to take a class called “How to Manage Your Anger,” which he failed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Approximately a half-million people are in prison or jail for a drug offense today, compared to an estimated 41,100 in 1980—an increase of 1,100 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "I was hoping he would knock down a waiter," Mike said, "and get arrested. I'd like to see Mr. Robert Cohn in jail." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z That could mean a felony, jail time, real stakes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Now she was in jail and her kids were wards of the state. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Paul was transferred back to the regular part of the jail to serve out her sentence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And because our mother warns us not to, I don't tell anyone he's in jail. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z But then suddenly M. D. Naidoo, a member of the South African Indian Congress, burst forth and said to his Indian colleagues, “Ah, you are afraid of going to jail, that is all!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “If the alternatives are jail or a pierced Adam’s apple, I shall happily push one of your carts. Though I can’t predict how far I’ll go.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Noah, why does he insist on staying in jail? It’s Father’s Day, for heaven’s sake.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The ground is rougher than the floor in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The road bears up past the bar and to the right, going by the police stayshun and the jail, all one place and in use more than you might think for a town so small. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z "This is jail. Home is where you're looked after by people who love you." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Because of the harsh conditions, some husbands refused to allow their wives to go to jail, and paid the fines instead. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I walked back out into the hallway.Julia and I stepped through the third set of jail doors, toward the open hall beneath the tiers. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you tell me about him getting put in jail?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the prisoners were released, the NWP staged a huge mass meeting in Washington, DC, to honor the women who had served time in jail. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The gate of the fence was locked like a jail yard, but Mrs. Bedlow wasn’t deterred. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z If they haven’t been in jail, they have a cousin, brother, or friend who has. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Much nicer sounds to start the day with than the jail noises—sliding bolts, squeaking keys, rattling locks. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Some of the women wrote accounts of the force-feedings, which were smuggled out of the jail by visitors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As the demonstrators were marched five blocks to jail, singing freedom songs, they were repeatedly jolted by cattle prods. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Of those children, 959 had been arrested and thrown in jail—one of whom was only four years old! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I swallowed and looked down at my sneakers, trying not to think about Newcharlie going to jail and me going to Aunt Cecile's. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z By early 2000, United States prisons and jails held nearly 2 million people, meaning that one out of every 140 residents was behind bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z During dinner everyone is careful not to talk about Bobby the missing person—or the cops, or jail time—so there's nothing to do but chat and try to be happy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It may appear now that Count Olaf will go to jail and that the three Baudelaire youngsters will live happily ever after with Justice Strauss, but it is not so. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “For telling your father you were about to get yourself tossed into jail?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z What kind of fellow goes to jail dressed like that? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The others were moved to an abandoned jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z His family maintained that he was beaten by police and jail officials who then denied him his asthma inhaler and medication despite his begging for it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “They offered to call him in jail and try to talk some sense into him, but I told them not to bother.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z My arrest had been discovered by my friends; Fatima Meer brought some food to the jail for me and I shared it with the two officers in the car. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the jail would be better than this unprotected place. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “If you were in jail, you wouldn’t be here,” he said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He says to me, If you ever go on the mooch again, by, we’ll have you in the jail above. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Once, I asked Amma why she was always lecturing me about being good, and she told me it was because she didn't want me to end up in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Kabuo was in jail on the morning their son began to walk, but in the afternoon she brought the boy and he took four steps while his father watched from behind the visiting room windowpane. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The tile floor is so clean it sparkles—the opposite of the jail kitchen, which had a two-fingers-thick layer of grime. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Scores of Klansmen were sent to jail for their night-riding activities, but even then the Klan refused to die. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We were all three jittery and grim, just hours past a terrible night; but the day was fair, we were together, and Mr. Kendall was caught and jailed where he couldn’t hurt us. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Through needles of rain, we staggered toward the home for children that Muthu had been so sure was a kind of jail. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I think folks in the county jail have to stay for a long time. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “I kept thinking, what’s the worst that could happen? I go to jail. Mom has a conniption. I get grounded for a year.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The cloud from the jail has followed me home. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I saw what happened. Bucky doesn’t deserve to go to jail.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Three railroad workers had been thrown in jail for mocking a Liberty Bond poster, and a woman had been fined for sending twenty dollars to her mother in Germany. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The cold night air outside the jail entered Ben’s lungs like the fires of resurrection. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think a police officer will care about you ‘defending a friend’ when they toss you in jail for aggravated assault?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z She said it was too much like jail. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “If you don’t give us five hundred pesos, ten days in jail!” he says one yelled. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In England, more than a thousand suffragettes spent time in jail, and dozens were force-fed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “He gave an interview to Channel 10 at the jail.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The scene at the jail wasn’t as laid-back as before. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then, when they realize that their reps and tattoos and colors don’t keep them out of jail, they chill and their colors fade. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange to walk through a jail. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “How many times have you been in jail?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z At home he sometimes cooked the new dish he had eaten in the jail, and on the streets there was never any knowing just what he would do. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Over one thousand Panthers were jailed, many on false charges, as a result of informants, perpetual surveillance, and other law enforcement tactics that would later become defining features of the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For Miss Hilly, Louvenia would just be another jail key on that witch’s belt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Did you know it was banned in Southern states? She could have gone to jail for playing it. She was brave.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “That’s not what I mean. A lot of people make bad mistakes. But being in jail can make them feel like a mistake is all they are. Like they aren’t even people anymore.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z ‘I going to drop by the jail on my way to work. I got to send Highboy off to his work, too—else he liable to sit there grieving about Willie all the morning.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They got arrested and thrown in jail, but nothing shut them up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The jail cells smelled with the breath of drunk people. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He also pointed out that Wes had converted to Islam in jail and was a father of four children, whom he talked to almost every day on the telephone from jail. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Three hours in jail and then they set the court for her case. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He will go to jail, suffer any humiliation, but he will not back down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Chapter Eleven flew to San Francisco to collect me from jail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “How long will he stay in jail? A week? A month? And what will he do to get back at us when he gets out? And he will get out.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a while longer before Dad could start searching for a new job, because now he was back in jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But I wanted to like it, because gallery work was the essential job of jailing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured her writing it down—Zach in jail—and pushing it into a crevice in the wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Slaves caught off the plantation need passes, unless they wanted a licking and a visit to the county jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In fact, at this very minute, while I’m stuck here in Colby, North Carolina, surrounded by hillbilly kids, ole Scrappy is back in Raleigh in the county jail again because of his fondness for fighting. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Well, he’s a criminal. He’s been in jail. Do you think I should be afraid of him?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Segregation was also enforced by law, and a breach could result in fines or time spent in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Cause Miss Hilly, she in her own jail, but with a lifelong term. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We were mostly quiet on the walk back to the waterfront, the jail and Mr. Kendall behind us, receding. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The projects, a drunken stepfather, an older brother concussed by police, a cousin pinned in the city jail. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If you have enough money you can pay bail to stay out of jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Doctors, factory workers, lawyers, teachers, students, ministers, defied and went to jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was the possibility that if I were ever caught I would never reach jail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It later emerged that Davis had been in jail the night of the break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When I visited Evan at the jail, we would have long talks. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But to the cops, he was just another black perpetrator with a story, and he was arrested and jailed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yes, but—I've never had so many choices. Actually...I've never had any choices. In jail they just decided what we could eat. And wear. And even when we could go to the bathroom." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “He says the Coast Guard will probably shut down the Coral Queen right away. He says they won’t throw Dusty in jail, but they could make him pay out a fortune in fines.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A special guard surrounded the prisoners and took them to the jail at a trot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z That Paul Marshall, Lola Quincey and she, Briony Tallis, had conspired with silence and falsehoods to send an innocent man to jail? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Send me someplace where I’m not in your face and can’t hurt anyone. But why do I have to go to jail?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z For the next two weeks, Connor kept most of the children imprisoned in the jails and in hog pens. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On one occasion he was unable to pay bail for his friend and Antonapoulos spent the night in jail. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I stopped twirling and said, “My mommy told me that I have to keep our secret or she’ll go to jail and I’ll never see her again.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They were heading to the local jail to protest the arrest earlier that day of a civil rights worker. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is private property, don’t you know that? You wanna go to jail, junior?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The jail has several holding cells, rooms with concrete benches and iron doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I argued that they were not advancing the cause by remaining in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t go to jail or lose his job. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He first accused a black man with a bad reputation named Isaac Dailey, but the police quickly discovered that Dailey had been in a jail cell on the night of the murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Independently of all this, my sister Ella had been steadily working to get me transferred to the Norfolk, Massachusetts, Prison Colony, which was an experimental rehabilitation jail. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking through the numbers, Hugo could see the Station Inspector’s desk, and in the corner of the office, the cage of a small jail cell that sat waiting for any criminals caught in the station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of lengthy sentences into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It feels so cool and dry, so different from the dirt in the jail yard. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He was the person folks called for advice, prayer, and practical help when someone got into trouble or ended up in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was spending the night in jail, like it or not. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Their sentences could include community service, counseling, and even jail time. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z In his natural haunts a sailor has no face and certainly no plans beyond getting drunk and maybe in jail for fighting. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “A powerful white man,” Coach says, woeful, “jailed an innocent black man. Dumas was disappeared.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I didn't want to be busted and thrown in jail so that someday I could tell my sad tale to others, just as the prisoners had told their woeful tales to me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the backs of the two officers and thought about the things Mom had told me about people who go to jail, about how some of them were never the same afterward. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z In jail, every day had the same routine. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Those two are on their way to jail again,” he said, and grinned happily. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z "No, but I've seen it on TV. When I was with Rani, she showed me how to use neem twigs to keep our mouths clean, and in jail we rubbed a powder on our teeth." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She walked out of the building and directly onto the team bus, parked just in front of the Walton County jail. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I heard once that there are people who commit crimes with the sole purpose of being caught and put in jail. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he’d driven the Crown Vic ten minutes to the Cache County Sheriffs Office, a new building that housed the local law enforcement, and was next to the jail. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Billing went to jail, but no one ever arrested the good things he had released. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I wondered in this order: was I hurt, was anyone else hurt, would I go to jail, what were the Mexicans saying, and finally, had Dad awakened? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The word on the street was that Cassie went to Big Joe and got the cash she needed to get her husband out of jail. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out Mama was in the women’s state prison and Dusty was in another jail in Florida. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He hoped that he might be returned to the county jail after his thirty-day stint at the hospital, but instead he was returned to death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She barely heard Calpurnia talking: “Frank, he do wrong ... he pay for it. . . my grandson. I love him . . . but he go to jail with or without Mr. Finch. “ Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I was enjoying hearing his saga of being thrown out of his home, living on the streets, and doing short stints in jail for petty theft. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Until her son introduced her to his friend from jail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Not sending you to jail would be a huge mistake.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Hooks was promised release from jail and reward money if he could connect McMillian's truck to the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “They’re going to be all right. Don’t hold them back if they want to go to jail. They are doing a job for all mankind.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They told her not to trust her weird neighbor, Mr. Rice, who the police carted off to jail. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “And I tell you,” he said, not smiling, “that your boyfriend robbed a store and he’s in jail for it. He’s going to stay there, too—now, what you got to say to that?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z A couple of days after my father got out of jail, the Parks Department took down the pollution warnings at Thunder Beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Charles Guiteau sat in jail, guarded by police and soldiers. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Next the Long Knife headman insisted that the man who had killed the cow be put in jail. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z My father’s brother, Leroy, called Lee, was in jail, and my father was constantly getting letters from lawyers asking for money for Uncle Lee’s “case.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z What if he goes back to jail for shooting someone again, but this time for life? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “What, punk? You gonna write on me? You touch me, and you are going to jail forever, you understand?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Any Indian who did not have proper registration papers could be fined, jailed, or deported. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then I sees I’m sitting in a jail cell with the door wide open. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z It didn’t have nothing to do with me in jail. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheriff said nothing until they had reached the stone jail in Prison Lane. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ignatius, honey, they can put me in jail.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why should they escape all punishment for their crimes? That’s not justice. What if the cops had nabbed two kids from Tangerine for robbing our houses? They’d be in jail now.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Would he end up going to jail now? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The woman at the Walton County jail had a different approach; she grabbed Luma’s hand, inked her fingertips, and then slammed her hand down on the counter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system in “disappearing” black men is surprisingly rare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We don’t put women and children in jail. But don’t try to come over here again. Remember what happened to you this time. Be glad you are alive!” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Wasn’t I that girl who came to the jail last week to see one of the colored boys? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “And your mother will go to jail because of you. Would you like that?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But the lord's servants promptly had them thrown in jail. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The jail in Tiburon did not have curtains like the one in Sylvan. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Julie wouldn’t survive if he ended up in jail or shot for curfew violation. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Besides, Gay could give the Salinas jail a bad name if he wanted to. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If we really were going to jail, I wanted to take her with me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On the evening of the march, with more than nine hundred arrested children filling Birmingham’s jails, Dr. King held a mass church meeting. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The boy moved quickly around the corner and out of sight of the iron door and the gray cement walls of the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And once they had her locked up in jail, what then? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z "They have to live in a jail. Isn't that awful?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z We were driven to the old jail, an isolated stone building, where we were ordered to strip while standing outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Meng says the villagers at the jail have only one thing in mind: blood for blood, life for life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “They jammed fifty-five Negroes in a jail cell built for four.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Corkhill ordered the jail warden to put Guiteau in a cell away from other prisoners and to forbid him from talking with the guards. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Can a grandfather jail a patriotic grandson who is dying that Italy may live? A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The Amazon jail was at the top of a storage aisle, sixty feet in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I’m going to jail, so why bother, right?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Even a prison chaplain, one of the “good guys,” faces the underrecognized moral dilemma inherent in working in a jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew if she spoke out for her dream, she might go to jail. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z White stationed extra guards at the jail after attempts to break out the outlaws who were going to testify against Hale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Sounder ain’t come home?” the boy said to his mother after he had talked about the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The pump was set in a little shed at the edge of the Common, a big gathering place ringed by army barracks, the poorhouse, and the jail. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d just as soon go to jail as take that relief job.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In the dream, I had just been released from prison — only it was not Robben Island, but a jail in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya stomped closer to the river, her words ripping out of her: “You broke the law too! Don’t you deserve to go to jail?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Well, right now Tom Dobashi who used to live over in Block Nine is in jail in Los Angeles for refusing to report for his physical.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He could go right down there to that horrible place and get Nathan out of jail. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Maybe Diego wouldn’t kill himself, but he could end up back in jail or find someone better or move home to Colorado. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For instance, Mom was ninety-nine percent serious about divorcing Dad if he didn’t come home from jail and get his act together. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I still don’t know how my great uncle Phil missed going to jail for doing what he did. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Now, I don’t know why I’m going to jail for nothing. I didn’t do anything.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The dad said: “Let him spend the night in jail; it’ll be a good learning experience for him.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They told me they weren’t going to send me to jail for failing to register, that they were going to give me a break, but that I would have to register immediately. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad spent only three months in jail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I’d been so wrapped up in dealing with jail and covering my tracks I’d forgotten that the proof of my crime was right there in the yard, the red Mazda missing from the driveway. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “If I wrote something that hadn’t really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That’s fraud.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Why the cops would want someone who is trying to change the world in jail. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z But Jay continues on merrily, adding a string of curse words I recognize from jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Obviously my father had let his hopes go sky-high, but since I wasn’t the one sitting in jail, I kept my mouth shut. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I’m not saying jail is for everybody, but it probably could save his life because look where his people went,” Cherie said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Some parents were fined, jailed, or sent to concentration camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I can’t just let Dray go to jail for something he didn’t do. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Once again, they proved that justice doesn’t mean the bad guys go to jail, it just means someone pays for the crime. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And my mother is already in something like jail. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He never graduated from high school, and being in and out of jail made it hard for him to get back on course, and get a real gig. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “You done helped me to steal enough from the folks you worked for to put you in jail already.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Oddly enough, Johnny slept well on his straw pallet in the jail. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the jail, Ben and Sammy could hear the semisweet, candently primitive rhythms of jukebox blues diffusing out of unseen nightclubs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Banks had allegedly told a deputy sheriff that she was pregnant to avoid time in jail for an unrelated matter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Breniz knew that people charged with smuggling can spend years in jail. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I didn’t want Sapo in jail, that was part of it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z X-Ray would most likely go to jail, and he probably would too. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Then, real quick, before I lost my nerve, I said, “Otis, what were you in jail for? Are you a murderer?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Getting to B-block is the longest walk; it’s the remotest part of the “max” jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you have no money they put you in jail and everyone forgets about you. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The horrendous situation in the jails reached a peak in November 1917, in what became known as the “Night of Terror.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “You say it like it was a jail sentence.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From her position in the doorway, Ann blocked traffic in and out of the jail, all the while using her oversized voice to curse anyone who came near her. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On a few occasions, his scams got him arrested and jailed for a short period. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Maybe the policeman was coming to put me in jail because I had swom on the Bible that everything I said would be the truth, the whole truth, so help me, God. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see the red-faced man lying on the jail floor with blood oozing out of the corners of his mouth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We thought it was back then because we didn’t know any better. But it wasn’t jail.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if Mom will save a keepsake from the day I went to jail? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z While in jail, the suffragists slept on blankets that were washed only once a year. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Agreeing to spend a whole year alone in Southeast Alaska had been his only way of avoiding a jail cell in Minneapolis. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z As she stood there in the receiving room of the jail, she didn’t even come up to the sergeant’s shoulder—and the sergeant’s head barely reached Milkman’s own chin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell them the news, but I cannot pass a note. That could land me in jail.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mandela had gone to jail for his principles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Stifling a wail, she watched as a patrolman took Salvador by the shoulder and led him over to the group of men bound for jail. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z When Harley talked like that, things that had happened, the dead sheep, the bar fight, even jail—all seemed very remote. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The union leaders were either in jail or dead, political parties had been indefinitely recessed, and all student-worker organizations, and even professional associations, had been dismantled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The penalties for violating security regulations covering information judged to be sensitive had a distinctly militaristic cast, with fines of up to $300,000 and jail terms as long as thirty years for “willful” disclosures. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Every week we interviewed old women who brewed African beer as a way to supplement their tiny incomes, who now faced jail terms and fines they could not afford to pay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But perhaps jail had taught him to release what otherwise he might conceal. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Tino answered to nobody in particular, “We were in jail. They put us in the vandalism jail.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the guards of segregation were everywhere in the white world, and I saw black people who unwittingly disobeyed them cursed, beaten or thrown in jail, I became increasingly self-conscious with each step I took. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When a black boy is carted off to jail in such a fashion, it is almost impossible to do anything for him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He tells them that perhaps God, by allowing him to be jailed, saved him from something worse. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The message gnawed away at the corners of our hearts: “You can kill black people. It’s okay, because even if someone is arrested, no one goes to jail for it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were set free, however, within three months because of the fact that the government and the banana company could not reach an agreement as to who should feed them in jail. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Maybe he had been caught in some other neighborhood and was safe in jail. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All the kids were there except Willie, who, still on the path he learned at Robert Taylor, was in jail. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “But after what’s happened today, that would be nothing. Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the one cuffed, isolated in the back seat, driven to jail. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Tom later recalled, “I was raised practically right in the jail. I could look down from my bedroom window and see the jail corridor and the doors to some of the cells.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Well, now, that didn’t sound nearly as bad as county jail. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z If I find them, I’ll tell them to give my bike back—or else they’ll end up in jail or juvenile detention. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z If the police suspected murder, she'd be in jail by now. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton’s mother left, but at least she didn’t go to jail. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I been paying you twenty years to stay out of jail. You’re a rich man just so I don’t have to go to jail. Where’s the logic of me paying you and no advantages?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The chance of going to jail—thereby losing your job, your house, and your freedom, all of which are essentially economic penalties—is certainly a strong incentive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He opened a door into a corridor that led to a single row of four jail cells, each of them holding a black boy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had half a mind to let the police have her: let her learn about consequences in jail. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Every day in the United States, two hundred new jail cells are constructed. I don’t want one of them to have my name on it.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Zakariyya had been in and out of trouble with the law since he got out of jail, with various charges for assault and drunk and disorderly conduct. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She wanted to go to jail so that her attorney could use legal tactics to force the case before the US Supreme Court. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And I had learned an important lesson: If you were going to survive in jail, the goody-goody stuff had to go. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that Zeitoun and the others had spent time in jail. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We would later learn that Shawn was in jail that night, having been in some kind of brawl. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She would’ve raced back to the jail, reached through the bars, and throttled him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Get permission from the authorities to come see me in jail.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I was working on several of these cases, including one in Gadsden, Alabama, where jail officials claimed that a thirty-nine-year-old black man had died of natural causes after being arrested for traffic violations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You ain’t never been in jail, is you?” he asked me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "He thinks Amma did something bad. And I already have nice friends. Outside I have Rani, and in jail I have Malli." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He wasn’t going to let Garvey sucker him into getting mad and blowing this chance to avoid jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In those days only three things in the world scared me: jail, a job, and the Army. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize it’s just six words on a Post-it note, but for a moment at least, it jailed me with hope. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When we are done shaming them, we throw up our hands and then turn our backs as they are carted off to jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All eleven picketers accepted jail sentences rather than paying a fine. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "Come on, let's get moving before that guy decides to call someone who will throw me in jail." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “The burglar has to go to jail because he did something bad first. The policeman puts him there to keep us safe.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But they won’t let women in the jail. So you must go.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, I hoped he didn’t have anything to do with the key, although I couldn’t help inventing that it was for his jail cell. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He had to figure a way out before he ended up in jail. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They were not going to observe what they considered the legal niceties that protected terrorists or permitted convicted prisoners certain rights in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was afraid she was going to give us away, say something like Actually we came here right after Lily broke me out of jail. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain near kilt me, but I pushed open the heavy door to the Dee-troit jail. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Some places reserved extra captives in the jail for a fallow week when the night riders returned empty-handed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She wondered what her mother would say when she was bailing them out of jail. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Most of these wardresses had no idea why we were in prison, and gradually began to discover what we were fighting for and why we were willing to risk jail in the first place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was arrested for his Tory activities and briefly jailed. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The jails were packed to capacity.1 Reporters and photographers captured in undeniable images the confrontation between the children and the police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He always, always, always said how he respected Ali for standing up to the government, even though they put him in jail. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t even be to get out of jail. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The other times my dad had gotten in trouble, they wouldn’t let me come to the jail because I was too young. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Though it has crossed my mind that a person could go to jail for the kind of thing Safer is planning. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z After that night, wrote Taylor Branch, “Fill up the jails” was King’s new battle cry. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The caretakers took their cards away, and the Kenyan police put them in jail. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma Knife waves jauntily as if she's the one leaving jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Well, I guess if you're Muhammad Ali, one of the biggest stars and the best fighter ever, jail ain't so bad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “I came to see about getting my friend out of jail.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I can’t go to jail for being rude to a teacher, can I? Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Thomas pulled up outside the small jail and caught his breath. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Even those who knew they were eligible to register worried that registering to vote would somehow attract attention to them—perhaps land them back in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You tell them boys in the jail to hang on. There’s plenty of us out here trying to help.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Sherman sent soldiers to guard the jail and protect the shooter from the angry crowd, just as Guiteau asked the general to do in his undelivered note. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Hundreds of workers were intimidated, beaten, hauled from their homes, and jailed on flimsy charges. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The event was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, which stands on a 413-acre plot of land in the middle of New York’s East River. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The school is a walled compound as big as a jail, but with an inviting gate and a friendly watchman who waves us in as soon as I say I want to see Viji Aunty. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He and Nali were able to get Uncle Jet out of jail. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z If you walk farther down the dirt road, you’ll find a jail. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He spent fourteen days in jail, was fined ten dollars, and departed from Worcester on another wet November afternoon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was rare in the United States, however, even in the jails, in the homeless shelters, and under the bridges that Joe often called home. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “But not bad enough to want to go to jail for it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “It’s time you knew the whole story. When I brought you home with me six years ago, after the fire, your mama was tried on child abandonment charges and was sent to jail.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Scores of innocent people were arrested, prosecuted, jailed, banished, beaten, tortured, and murdered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Crow's not going to inherit anything, not if she's in jail for murder," Otis Amber complained bitterly. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the incarcerated from the Jefferson Parish and Kenner jails—those who had been in jail before the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When the story came out and he got carted off to jail for life, I wouldn’t even wave. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “What’s it like when you visit your daddy in jail?” he said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He saw in the people who arrested him and processed him at the courthouse, even in other inmates at the jail, a contempt that he'd never experienced before. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Anyway, Cleveland’s sitting in jail. They aren’t going to hold the trial until their three star witnesses are ready to testify.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “We should have him out of jail by tomorrow,” he had promised. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z One girl hid in a delivery truck and got into the jail but didn’t make it to his cell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The carriage he'd hired would be waiting outside, ready to take him to the jail. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I can look forward to jail without any remorse or fear,” Kehler continued, “and that’s because I know that everyone here, and lots of people around the world like you, will carry on.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I only spent thirty days in jail. People ask: ‘Do you feel like that’s enough time—for what you did?’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The idea of having to depend on Pilate to get his son out of jail humiliated him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z While King and Abernathy sat in jail, the city’s students were out in the streets protesting their arrests. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On a certain occasion he sent Amaranta a note from jail asking her to embroider a dozen batiste handkerchiefs with his father's initials on them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And Palsson had been the initial Icelander to join forces with Bobby in his attempt to get out of jail. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I thought the sheriff was probably going to put me in jail, and it wasn’t the thought of jail that bothered me so much. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z "Can’t we see Papa even if he’s in jail?" he asked Mama. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t want to leave jail because he knows they’ll shadow him and find out where the girl is, see? He’s scared.'” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later when the nameless man stood beside his desk in the front office of the old red county jail behind the courthouse, Sheriff Quinn stuck the will out in front of him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They were probably afraid to try him as an adult and send him to jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Mr. Shine had arranged for Dad to return to the jail and surrender himself. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The engine was operating at full power on diesel fuel, and, Zeitoun realized in an instant, was generating all the electricity used for the station and the makeshift jail. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I’m thinking Noah Webster was a scoundrel and they should have put him in jail for this. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Just because you broke me out of jail, don’t get any bright ideas about Zach. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Before, I didn’t want to think about people being jailed, killed, or forced to leave their homes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Mr. Stevenson, all I wanted to do is tell the truth. I can't go to jail, and I'll be honest—these folks have scared me.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The giants bane stands gold and pale, Won with pain from a woven jail.’ The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They settled for a charge of vagrancy and gave him the option of being expelled from the state or serving jail time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By the mid-1980s, nearly 20 percent of the people in jails and prisons in the United States had served in the military. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was denied because of an earlier drug possession charge for which he had pleaded guilty and served thirty days in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He’d come home from jail at 11 P.M. in a taxi and the driver refused to take a cent from him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In jail, Amma looked after me, and after that, Rani did. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Maybe it was my nerves, but his office had the closed-in feeling of a jail cell, metal jalousies at the windows and fluorescence the only light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had a number of opportunities to talk in jail and we discussed Walter’s application for bail while his appeal was pending, a move I wholeheartedly supported. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The thing about jail is nobody cares about you. Nobody liked me there. They called me the ‘Textual Offender.’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The jail you plan for me is the one in which you will rot, I say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in June, Guiteau had ridden a streetcar to the jail to see what it was like, at least from the outside. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Sitting in the Walton County jail, Luma had lost all track of time. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “She used to swear out a warrant and put him in jail.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Rani can make jail guards sleep and help set my mom free, like in the Krishna story. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Facing prosecution and jail, Smith suffered a mental breakdown and briefly committed himself to an insane asylum. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Department of Social Services was located in a single large open room on the ground floor of the Durham County Courthouse, three floors below the jail. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad was drunk all the time except when he was in jail; Mom had completely withdrawn into her own world; and Maureen was more or less living with neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And I never expected to be leaving jail so soon—or without Amma. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “You were real lucky, man. Real lucky. You could’ve gone to jail. But they just sent you to the hospital again. If it had been me, I probably still been sitting in jail.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They took him to the station and then to the jail. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “If you pay five hundred ice creams you can come out of jail?” he asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z If you do, you can be fined up to $50,000 and/or go to jail for a year. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He shouldn’t have been in jail in the first place, but that was how it went. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He dreamed without sleeping—daydreams, waking dreams, as had come to him often in his jail cell. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Only later Wing went to divinity school, thanks to China Mary, and Luke went to the county jail for selling stolen car stereos. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul was arrested at least seven times in Great Britain and jailed at least three times. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Last year when El Lider jailed a famous Cuban poet, she sneered at “those leftist intellectual hypocrites” for trying to free him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve murdered a human being. They are going to put you in jail. They might even hang you!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If the passer was unmasked, it could result in a beating or jail or even worse. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The toilets and sinks were a single stainless-steel unit, such as were found in most newer jails and prisons but not generally in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was jail, and there’s a big difference, as I would soon come to understand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He visited Bobby in the jail and gave him a copy of The Apostle of Common Sense, a book about the writer G. K. Chesterton, which covered various matters of religion and culture. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was my father kneeling by the bed, still wearing the orange jail- house jumpsuit. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z How she would be an old, sick woman with lice in her hair when she came out—if she didn’t die in jail, that was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was with these people for only a brief window of time, but in that moment I saw the difference between prison and jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But what if I had to telephone my father that night and tell him I was in jail? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “How can you talk to him? He’s in jail.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We laughed among ourselves at the idea of “warm” jail food; it was a contradiction in terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t say Papa was one of the leaders of the Movement or that he was instrumental in getting Garvey out of jail for supposed mail fraud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If he was going to end up in jail anyway, he might as well have gone through normal justice and avoided all this Circle baloney. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “People go to jail for stuff like that.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Sonny’s rough period was only getting worse: most of his income now came from a food-stamp ring he ran out of Lawrence’s convenience store, and soon he found himself in jail for narcotics trafficking. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There’s probably a religious motif, though in the foreground something more immediate: money, the release of others jailed in some sinkhole for doing more or less the same thing these men are doing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But would someone in the jail read it for his father? Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Authorities were determined to prevent a lynch mob from storming the District of Columbia jail. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He would need more than a coffee cup tipped onto its side to get him out of jail. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He had been exiled in the county jail for seventy-seven days—the last part of September, all of October and all of November, the first week of December in jail. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Many Malawians were jailed, tortured, and even tossed into pits of hungry crocodiles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Besides, she found out that the man who killed her niece cried all day and for him and for Violet that is as bad as jail. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The town and the jail seemed to become more remote and the distance greater as each day passed. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at their faces, I know I'm not going to let them get arrested and dragged off to jail. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A little group waited outside the jail for him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I doubted I would ever go to jail, so that part of the lecture didn’t scare me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I sat there in the police station—arrested for suspicion of grand theft auto, a plausible suspect for carjacking or murder—and debated whether I should call my parents or go to jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Our government is jailing us because of our faith,” a voice from behind me says. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The Empire raids, jails, and kills for such “crimes,” but teaching a six-year-old her letters isn't evil—not in the minds of my people, the Scholar people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z O'BRIEN Do people in jail look for stories to report to the police? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z More than sixty of the suffragists, most of them middle-aged or older, chose to go to jail rather than pay a fine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He imagined being led in handcuffs from the courtroom and for the first time being locked into a real jail cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z After jail, with Rani, days were never the same, because nearly everything felt new. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He would have worn a cowbell around his neck if it had meant avoiding jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They believed that the gang members deserved the brutal Gestapo interrogations and the jail time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Men in jumpsuits, from the jail I think, were clearing the lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "My parents grew up in this city, remember? My mother and I always talked in Kannada—especially when we didn't want others listening to us in jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z His wanting to stay in jail’s nothing but a dodge, but he’s not so smart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In many places, huge numbers of strikers were jailed and then promised they would be released if they went back to work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “And my daddy knows that he was in jail.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Although a small group gathered outside the jail on the night of Garfield's death, nothing happened. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And girls who only wanted to learn were trapped inside homes that had become like jails. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At moments like these, it was almost worth all the jail time. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They dreaded the awful tauntings of irresponsible white men, the jailing, the frames. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Avery was in and out of jail until he turned twenty, when in the midst of a psychotic episode he wandered into a strange house, thinking he was being attacked by demons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The fact that an accused man was deprived of a fair trial, kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob from a Mississippi jail apparently had no effect on the thinking of the Grand Jury. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We asked a dockhand where the jail was, and he told us straight up Union. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z His friend was in jail waiting to be put on trial for the crime of helping the Reds. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Rosaleen had been beaten up, gone without food, slept on the hard ground, and who could say how long before she’d be back in jail or even killed? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z FBI agents also infiltrated black community and activist organizations, sought to undermine political education efforts, and illegally and legally surveilled, targeted, jailed, and killed activists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The secret language I used to speak with just Amma in jail is spoken everywhere here. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But while other priorities— health care, education—suffer, there is little evidence that this mass jailing provides either a cure for crime or a deterrent to it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When Westerberg was jailed and the work came to a halt, and with winter coming on, McCandless headed for warmer climes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When I started investigating the case, inmates at the jail told me they saw officers beating Mr. Ruffin before taking him to an isolation cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I'm going after the hard-to-reach places behind the radiator when the independent counsel arrives, promising that if I cooperate, I won't have to go to jail. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “The marquess made sure Dumas could fence. Skilled, courageous, Dumas was famous right up to the day he was jailed.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When the jail guards heard Guiteau cry out, they immediately unlocked his cell door. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “So now you think you know something. Out in the world. End up in jail. I’m trying to save you from what’s out there. I’m trying to save you from yourself.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Some nights he thinks of the faces, the people who arrested him, who jailed him, who shuttled him between cages like an animal, who transported him like luggage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I ask my teacher on my last day of jail school. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “But what in hell’s the good of his not wanting to leave jail?” asked one of the men. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I told Leah that means the new soul of Africa, and he’s gone to jail and Jesus is real mad about it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If R.C. skipped town or ended up in jail, she’d be left alone with her dad. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I was a fugitive from justice, and here I was breezing into a jail where there were probably policemen trained to recognize me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Under his windshield wiper. I hid and watched when he came out of the jail and read the note. There’s nothing but gold at the end of this rainbow.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Really? Well, let’s just say that’s true. What’s it got to do with you or me or the price of potatoes ?” “My father’s in jail,” I said, “for sinking that boat.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The presence of the county jail supplies the first quality, while the so- called Sheriff’s Residence, a pleasant apartment separated from the jail proper by steel doors and a short corridor, accounts for the second. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The jail met with his approval, and he planned to turn himself in there after he completed his task. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I did not have the heart to tell her it was wholly inappropriate for me to wear such things in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The man could have me jailed for breaking into his house—or he could shoot me for breaking in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When Kabisa heard my father was in jail awaiting a trial, he paid a personal visit. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Take my word for it, jail scars the soul. And I was never able to help those I hurt.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Roy couldn’t bear the thought of facing his parents through jail bars if he and Mullet Fingers got caught. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I reached for a metal post that supported the ceiling and spun around, lifting my feet off the floor as I thought about the Mosses in their respective jail cells. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Filthy, if some girl done locked up JB, he’s going to jail. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z I could go to jail for the fire thing—not only was Celia’s dad a lawyer, but her family was loaded. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I tell people that talk about them sit-ins I was raised in jail, and it don’t scare me none.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been only a week, in a cell that wasn’t terribly uncomfortable with food that wasn’t half bad, but a week in jail is a long, long time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z However, both saw promise in the dramatic arrest, jailing, and trial of a fifteen-year-old bus protester. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Every evening, in Pretoria Local, before lights were out, the jail would echo to African prisoners singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He has to pay or I go to jail. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I thought back on how naive I’d been just hours before, thinking jail wasn’t so bad and I could handle it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The Kahns had to go through a series of police interviews and in the end, no one went to jail. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The senator turned out to be a state senator, a hack politician, now serving a five-year jail term for bribery. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if Ellsberg might be expecting to spend some time in jail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You don’t think for one minute I’m going to let you lock a child of mine up in jail?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I thought about Scrappy snoring away in the county jail and Mama staring up at the ceiling of her dark bedroom. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “You guys, we just turn our heads and you guys are in jail.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “I thought you’d be in jail by now, with all the other witches.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We hear a thud and a howl—the sort of howl that came from the punishment block in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Herbert became one of thousands of combat veterans who end up in jail or prison after completing their military service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She’d planned to take her grandson Alfred to see his father in jail before we left town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I’m supposed to end in the poorhouse? If the young idealist wrote it, he goes to jail for forgery.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But on Monday night the leaders were taken from their homes and sent to jail in the capital of the province with two-pound irons on their legs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But now that Miss Hilly put her own maid in jail to rot, I wonder what that lady’s going to do to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The editor of his paper had been arrested and jailed for sedition, but the journalist himself had never been seen again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He did three years in jail, and when he got out, my mother made it clear he couldn't stay with us anymore. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Ann saw Fuller being hauled off and she followed on foot to the jail, just a few blocks away. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She is the only woman in a jail containing no provisions for women, and this makes her imprisonment simply torture. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “Found him and jailed him. Took his government work papers. They were going to send him to the Creek Nation in Oklahoma. State capital is Oklahoma City.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z One woman’s husband recovering from a stroke still told his wife he could get along without her while she went to jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Their children quit school at sixteen and go into the army, the jails, the state hospitals; when troubled times come, they join the Klan and do the rabble-rousing for the middle class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The goals: go to class, get your grades up, graduate, stay out of jail, survive. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The cops, the jail, how she missed Grace’s soccer game. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Alas! yes: no jail was ever more secure. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I was put here in jail a few years ago. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “By the time that chump’s been through jail, the last thing he’ll want is to go back.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z She herself was preoccupied—by the births of their sons, by the family setbacks after Papa was jailed, by Papa’s sad demise and death, by their own numer-ous business failures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope she doesn't gamble, the way I've seen some women do with cards in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z My mother would be terrified and angry at the things I'm doing today, but how else am I going to keep myself out of foster care or jail? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Ridgeway and Boseman were drinking in a tavern around the corner from the jail while little Homer waited with Cora and the wagon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I'm the one who was in jail all my life. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I assumed that my father had convinced the big jowly deputy—and probably everyone else at the jail—that he was harmless and fairly normal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Seemingly by the nonchalance of his manner, nothing was more usual than to find one’s friends in jail. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A person who believes in Satyagraha will not fight physically, but instead resists through his or her own inner courage, knowing he might be jailed or beaten. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Twenty or more Chinese, imported from Pajaro, a few bums, six or eight drummers, who, being strangers, were not warned, fell into the police net, were booked, jailed, and in the morning fined and released. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By not jailing her, the judge left her no way to appeal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “I’m worse. Dad never ended up in jail.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Hale and Ernest picked him up in a spot nearby and returned him to the jail, where the other deputy sheriff snuck him into his cell. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For a gratuity, the city recorder tipped him to freshly jailed fugitives and hurriedly signed them over for release. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It would be dark by the time they got him back to the ranch headquarters, and then they would have to drive him all the way to the jail in Grants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Almost 2,000 more people—men, women, and children—crowded outside the jail walls under overcast skies. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z While in a New York jail, he overheard a fellow convict boasting about being a member of a gang plotting to kidnap Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all going to get sent to jail! Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z In August 1944, Dickinson was sentenced to ten years of jail time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I cried out of my heart, “Now, dance! Sing! But as you do—remember Mandela, remember Sobokwe! Remember Lumumba in his grave! Remember South Africans now in jail!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the summer, protesters circulated from the picket lines to the courtrooms to the jail cells and back to the picket lines. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It sat at the very edge of town, near the town jail and overlooking the wharf. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z An editor could go to jail and his newspaper be shuttered for publishing so much as a snapshot of me or my colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after almost a month in jail, you decide to plead guilty so you can return home to your children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “There were good things, but that was jail.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "We're sure your mother is wonderful, Kabir, because of how wonderful you are. She raised you without any help, in jail, and look at you. Kind and thoughtful and polite." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The judge declared Russo in contempt of court and sent him to jail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then we pass the jail where all the people have to go when they do things like steal from the markets. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As he was taken to the jail in Guthrie, he was confronted by a local reporter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Mommy’s not your real mother. Your real mother’s in jail.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. For doing bad things, I guess. For being in jail.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of us get our flags pulled and land in jail, and the rest of us plot elaborate rescue missions. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The great irony was that he got bail because he told the judge that if he was in jail, he couldn’t earn money to support his kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Paul knew that the treatment the women received in jail would create a public relations crisis for President Wilson, even in wartime. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After a week in jail, you have no one to care for your two small children and are eager to get home. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “No! She broke the law! She deserves to go to jail!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t dare tell Dad about the stranger grabbing my sister, because I knew he’d bail himself out of jail in a flash and go hunting for the guy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There was Doug Swieteck’s brother, for one, who was already shaving and had been to three police stations in two states and who once spent a night in jail. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z "The lady really said your mom and dad could go to jail?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If I get caught, I’ll go to jail for the rest of my life. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Most of the time, those kids ended up right back in jail. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He spent more days in jail than the runaways he brought in, snoring in a cell next to the miscreant he had stopped hours earlier. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As we were walking out the door excited about our excursion, Cecile called out, “I'm not coming down to no police station if you’re out there stealing. Y'all have to spend the night in jail.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z All the grit of the jail digs into me from below. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Marchers and demonstrators would be marched directly to jail. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a brave and dedicated man, and had led a small group of defiers to jail during the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He washed his hands, removed his shoes, and lay down on the jail bed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The first words spoken to me in jail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She and the other suffragists argued that they were being jailed because they had opposed the government and not because they had blocked traffic or stood too long on the sidewalks or city streets. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was troublesome, maybe, to escort the prisoners into the station to make the calls, but wouldn’t the calls end up relieving the prison of at least some of the jailed? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And then he saw his dad’s terror that he might go to jail. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At the jail, Hooks positively identified Walter's truck as the one he'd seen at the cleaners nearly six months earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One flight landed her in jail when she touched down in Ecuador with a military bomber meant for Peru. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “How can I trust a man I pay twenty years to stay out of jail when all of a sudden, the minute a little extra pressure’s on, he says ‘go to jail’? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Our first stop was a jail in a Port-au-Prince suburb. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He would tell her that the jailer was mean to visitors but didn’t say nothing to the people in jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The driver got ninety days in jail and a black mark for the rest of his life, in addition to the weight of his deadly actions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “No, you don’t care about money. Just want to keep your friend out of jail.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “If he killed them,” Jessie pointed out, “he would be in jail.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I’d be hauled off to jail for practicing falconry without a license.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For four years, up to that point, I’d been lucky enough, or slick enough, to escape jail, or even getting arrested. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This is like so many regimes in which, to this day, a tyrant claims he is helping the people while he jails his opponents and robs his nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z These here jail baits is just set on the trigger of the hoosegow.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I’m sure he’d realize that he doesn’t particularly want to go to jail himself, either.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The county jail was a windowless, antiquated structure that had served as an armory in the decade before the Civil War. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If I get caught, I'll go straight to jail for breaking the law, so that idea isn't a very good one. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I’d spent the whole week in jail thinking I was so slick. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I told him how I wished Scrappy wasn’t in jail. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I’d had some difficult encounters with officers getting into prisons from time to time, mostly in small county jails or places where I’d never been before, but this was highly unusual. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Since jail, I understand the counterpoint beats better than ever. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z On Saturdays, visiting days for the prisoners, she would stop by the house of Gerineldo Márquez’s parents and accompany them to the jail. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Jaimito called Lio a troublemaker, accusing him of cooking up plots and then running off to some embassy for asylum, leaving his comrades behind to rot in jail. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A thought raced around my head—my mother was going to have to pick me up from jail. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Where the folks have a real cute jail. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A milder state of emergency, Code Blue, called for ceasing all inmate movement and locking down the whole jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As a preface, the judge explained that the law allowed a penalty of up to a year in jail for each count of negligent homicide. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And now most of us are just doing what society wants us to do—contributing to the jail population, selling drugs, having babies, living on welfare. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If Sapo killed that reporter then he deserved to go to jail. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Some were placed in jails or in the dreadful hulks of prison ships. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z We had had discussions in jail during the trial, but this was our first formal session. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I promised myself to visit him in jail and take him a ghetto blaster and oldies CDs. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The commercial said that the whole movie was about him trying to prove that he was innocent and how he could go to jail anyway. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z But we had different business that day, and it took us to a big brick building I recognized, immediately, as a jail. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z "Mr. Bailey knows the rules. He knows he breaks his parole, he goes to jail. He knows you go to an initiation, you're going to have to fight." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z He knew they had big stoves in big jails. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “And from what I hear, they’s a lot a time to write a lot a letters in jail.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z No one knocked on the door and dragged us off to jail. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were rumors of cells in the basement where the souls of dead prisoners, prisoners who had died in jail, howled all night. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The scene at the jail wasn’t as laid-back as before. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Suspected of disloyalty to the Union, federal forces arrested and jailed him for months at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I read as much jail literature as I could locate. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Inmates awaiting trial or those serving shorter terms stay in local jails, such as New York City’s giant Rikers Island complex, near La Guardia Airport. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “What? They put you guys in a jail cell?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He got frustrated when the days turned into weeks at the county jail. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “My daddy’s in jail and my mama won’t get out of bed,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z "All these years we were in jail, we thought we had no one because of Appa being too scared to tell you the truth." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Government propagandists repeatedly claimed that the leaders of the campaign were living it up in comfort while the masses were languishing in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was of course characteristic of any criminal trial— any time there were questions of jail time, reputation, money. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z After my father had gone to jail and started spouting off about the Coral Queen, Dusty Muleman had gotten nervous. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Obviously my father had let his hopes go sky-high, but since I wasn’t the one sitting in jail, I kept my mouth shut. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He had been in the county jail for several days on burglary charges when McMillian was arrested. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Angola prisoners completed the network of outdoor jails in two days, sleeping at night next door to the Greyhound station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “So you know I got to transfer, because I can’t stand no jail time. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the rate of violent crime in the country is down 20 percent since 1991, the number of people in prison or jail has risen by 50 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is no towel for a jail cell,” Mama finished, as if that was what she had been about to say from the start. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He swallows the next thought: Winding up in jail doesn't seem like the way to go. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Take him to jail. If he’s going to disobey he needs to learn the consequences.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For no matter how poorly he had been treated by his boss, if he left the plantation, he could be prosecuted and jailed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Surely he doesn’t want to see you go to jail.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I had never been to court before, but judging from all the TV shows—which is all I really had to go off—it seemed almost as scary as going to jail. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “A policeman took us to jail,” I said, and I heard how strange the words sounded to my ears. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to mention I had to get Rosaleen out of jail. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your father is somewhere in Dubai, Kabir. That's too far away. But your uncle is right here, in this state, in Chennai city, close to our jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Besides, a guy who starts playing solitaire in jail is just asking to get depressed.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z At best I’d be jailed and forced to stand against the iron law. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before Suba left, she said she was going to the outside world with her mother because she was too old to be in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “He will burn this place to the ground, you know it as well as I do. And he won’t serve a day of jail time for it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “We gotta pay that man, Ignatius. You wanna see me in jail? Wouldn't you be ashamed with your poor momma behind bars?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He would get some jail time, no more than ninety days, to be determined by Judge Willmore. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Your father,” she said, watching him, “knows best. You listen to your father, I guarantee you, you won’t end up in no jail.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Two weeks after my release from jail, I had to appear in court. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “If you do anything to hurt our son now, God help me, you’ll go to jail until you rot. Do you understand me?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He’d haul us to jail and maybe even have a beating in store for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I know the world isn't perfect—inside jail and outside it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after the first issue was printed, the Revolution’s benefactor, George Francis Train, went to England and ended up in a British jail with a one-year sentence for speaking out in favor of Irish rebels. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Men, women, and children blocked the entrance to the jail, threatening to riot if their demands were not met. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And Jacob Carlyle...if he is still alive, and I could prove he set JonJon up, I doubt anybody would throw a dude that old in jail. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The British had jailed her husband for “surreptitious correspondence with the enemy.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Horace went into the sheriff’s office in the old county jail about ten minutes after nine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As sheriff, Emmett was in charge of the county jail, in Austin, and he moved with his children into a house adjoining the building. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Thomas’s only concern was that Gaily would just hate him all the more for being thrown in jail. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He was simply too vital to the organization to allow him to languish in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fannie was sentenced to six months in jail, and the union did not have enough money to post her bail. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “I don’t know if I can do this—stay in this jail all night.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z So I try to shove my sadness down as deep as I can by imagining I'm holding Amma’s hand and leading her out of jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She was carrying some folded clothes, a toothbrush, and the paperback chess book that I’d brought to Dad in jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Hickey was in jail for trying to spend counterfeit money. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Abbey asked after I got back from the jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z "What did they lock her up in jail for, then?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Out of all the possibilities in the world—the millions of them—only events occurred that lead to the Salinas jail. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Two supporters bailed the sisters out after a month in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I wondered if he was too preoccupied with Ade Cokers case, but even after he got him out of jail a week later, he did not talk about my report card. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She threatened to put him in jail and I was on restriction twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—possibly forever. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z That time, Dad spent only two nights in jail before he let my mom bail him out. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z If it had been left up to me, we would have gotten hauled into a Mexican jail that day. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When they returned to jail, many of the women continued with their hunger strike. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Virtually every one of the ANC’s senior leaders was either in jail or in exile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred and thirty protesters were arrested and marched off to jail. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So straight up Union we went, block after block, watching for something that looked like a jail. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z That’s what jails and mental hospitals are for, to keep it that way. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He was in jail for nine months awaiting trial while the victim was released from the hospital and was recovering fine. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The women, who were held for three days, became the first suffragists to go to jail for protesting in support of women’s right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That is not what one would guess, however, when entering our nation’s prisons and jails, which are overflowing with black and brown people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As soon as Mom and Abbey left, I got on my bike and headed up the highway toward the jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The other person who now entered my life was my uncle Lee, finally out of jail. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z "Crow's going to jail," Otis Amber wailed, "and all you do is pat yourself on the back for not being a stoolie." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z After bailing him out a few times, Deborah started leaving him in jail to teach him a lesson, saying, “You just stay there till your bail come down to where you can afford it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The proximity of the two enterprises stemmed from the fact that both welfare and the jail were administered by the county. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Tattoos, she says, are for delinquents, for people in jail. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z If the Taliban had caught him, he would have ended up in jail, or worse. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z If no official charge has been made, Papa won’t be jailed but put under house arrest at one of these hotels. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, I thought it was only in jail that we didn't have enough water." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z If Booth was captured, the army would have to protect him from Lincoln’s avengers—rampaging mobs of vigilantes who might storm the Old Capitol Prison—if they discovered Booth was jailed there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was talking in hushed voices, and I began to think that forestry camp had to be better than some juvenile jail place, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “It’s weird, though. I keep feeling like someone should just haul me off to jail right now.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z One time Papá told us how he had joined the Cristero Revolt in 1926, when he was sixteen, and had been wounded in the knee and thrown in jail for six months. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z "That friend of yours, James Mosely. The police caught him. Put him in jail over the weekend." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z This was called Circle Justice, but it was no different than being in a jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In Pennsylvania and Delaware, state police attacked picketers with clubs, dragged strikers from their houses, and threw thousands in jail on false charges. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I've seen those weird shows where psychos pose like coaches and stuff and get you caught up and the next thing you know my mother's in jail too for handling this dude. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I wondered: Did they lock kids in jail? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Claudette told of having been put into a car, handcuffed through the window, taken to city hall, and locked in an adult jail cell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Two-thirds of people detained in jails report annual incomes under $12,000 prior to arrest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “He’s military, you’re not. And I’m already in jail, so don’t tempt me to commit homicide.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If something slipped up this afternoon he would be out of a job and in jail, maybe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Reggie could take a sentence that ranged up to ninety days in jail and included community service. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He agreed that there were times when a person seeking justice might need to take action that could land him in jail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This time, the women were sentenced to sixty days in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured that if I was in jail people were going to assume I was the kind of colored person who ends up in jail, a violent criminal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He shook it so hard he might have broken it, but then a voice in his head reminded him that it wasn’t worth going to jail for fifty cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z It would be no time at all until Cabot wasn’t changing the world, but sitting alone in a jail cell with a bologna sandwich and a lidless toilet. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Perhaps the self- righteous Trotter would be put into jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “Three of you in three different jails. Do you know what jails in India are like?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, Jesus, you pay my bail When they put me in that old jail. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I win, you come with us. If I lose, we'll leave you in jail.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Outside the jail Joe had broken fingers on both his hands hitting people or horses or doors or other such things. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In return for his money, he received many privileges: he wore clothes meant for white prisoners, ate their diet, and did no jail work at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He pantomimed a key turning in a lock, which meant she was back in jail. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I know I'm not supposed to go blabbing about being from jail, so I just say, "Didn't come from very far away, ma'am." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z If Grandmother raised the heat off their gambling parlors, or said the word that reduced the bail of a friend waiting in jail, they knew what would be expected of them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If both are caught for drug possession, say, the white guy is more likely to be sent to treatment and the black guy is more likely to be sent to jail. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Tayama couldn’t identify anyone precisely, but the next day three men were arrested and one of these was sent out of the camp to the country jail at Independence, ten miles away. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Why should I sit here in this smelly old jail of a boot when everyone is so mean to me? Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z But a widespread belief that a majority of black and brown men unfortunately belong in jail is compatible with the new American creed, provided that their imprisonment can be interpreted as their own fault. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Every evening, television newscasts showed youngsters being led off to jail. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I went down to the jail and brought Walter his suit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They were going to keep him in jail a long time. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I threw my arms around Diego, accidentally knocking the back of his head with my cast, but I didn’t care because he was here and not in jail and I’d missed him so much. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He tells them how he slept on a “boat,” which is a small blue bed, an inch and a half thick, because the jail was overcrowded and the bunks were taken by his cellmates. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The fighting even spread to the holding areas at the city jails, where black and white detainees attacked each other viciously. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Can they kick a person out of jail, even if he refuses to put up bail? I don’t think so.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z On news shows and on fictional shows alike, it was a constant parade of black people getting arrested and thrown in jail. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Migrant children say the jail, operated by Corrections Corporation of America, doesn’t feed them enough. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But I bet Scrappy would call from jail and tell her to stop her yammering and let me have a dog if I wanted one. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z On the four sides of the square surrounding the jail, there were two feed stores, a harness shop, two general stores, a newspaper office, and three saloons. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But the boys started calling me “thief” and “jail rat” and I knew only one way to settle the argument: with my fists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “You could probably still go to jail for all this,” Toby said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Cofield sued guards and state officials connected to the prisons he’d been in, and was accused of calling the governor of Alabama from jail and threatening to murder him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Despite the reforms of the 1970s and early 1980s, inmate death in jails and prisons was still a serious problem. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Roy didn’t want to get Dana Matherson thrown in jail, because then Dana’s mean and equally large friends might come after him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was very dull for the birds in jail. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z And Jan was still in jail, swearing that he had an alibi. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to rermin in the same place in jail while the world moves on. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the wounded Garfield was being transferred to the White House by ambulance, police were driving the handcuffed Guiteau to the District of Columbia jail, the same one he had visited. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Plus, according to her, “We only need one family member in jail.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Overnight, being a member of the ANC had become a felony punishable by a term in jail and a fine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after, having stood about the jail and noted exactly who was put in it, he himself headed for Salt Lane. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was led away to be locked in Martin’s museum—in what used to be the sacristy and was now the island’s makeshift jail cell—until he could be remanded to police on the mainland. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Maurine, the boy was in jail and scared. Now, I got in trouble once or twice as a boy. Curtis is a good kid. He just needed someone to help him out.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you go to jail, I won’t bet a nickel on your future.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But Paul, who was referred to as the ringleader, and the other woman who had been repeatedly arrested were sentenced to a surprising seven months in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Although I could have been sent back to jail for voicing such views, I did not hesitate to reaffirm the tremendous support the Communists had given us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Had the Watermelon Feed been held inside the county jail, or on a sinking ship, or on the side of a craggy mountain, they would still have flocked to attend. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is that the name? Well, it’s all up. No one’s going to the Indians. The agent’s in jail and the rebels has published the whole plan as an example of, you know, perfidy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z "I am very important and have immunity from being jailed by the queen's court. I can risk it." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “The Slammer. It’s our jail on the north side of the Homestead.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If you got a parking ticket you ain’t paid, you going to jail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There is a white steepled Congregational church, a stone courthouse with an adjoining jail, a cupolaed public library, a wooden well from which Paul Revere is rumored to have drunk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They begin haggling over a price like I've seen the women in jail do when someone has been able to smuggle in a thing from outside that everyone else wants. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “My abuela was right in making my aunt do that. I mean, the Cuban guy was rich and the street activist she had been in love with ended up in jail.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “A felony, my! Does that mean jail, Tag?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was only when they entered the jail that the strength of his rage came to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z For men, having long hair would get you tossed in jail. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In a way I was glad to find my father depressed, because that was a perfectly normal reaction to being in jail—and Dad acting normal wasn’t something you could take for granted. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z My mother told me to never tell people my dad was in jail. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Once a month, Mom takes the subway down to this actual jail and talks to criminal pregnant women about what to expect after they have their babies. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z How, how, how could I get my hands on more money before I was caught and sent to jail for some trivial misdemeanor? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s true what they say; being in jail is no way to live. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Thelma Ford, a girl my age who lived five houses down from me, was put in jail on the first day of the march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On a warm Good Friday morning, I walked out of a Birmingham jail with an innocent man who had been condemned on Alabama's death row for nearly thirty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “If I get stopped I’m going to jail!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But even though Namwon was no longer a jail, Pong still had a hard time visiting. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She asked if the boy got in all right and if it was warm in the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The jail contains six cells; the sixth, the one reserved for female prisoners, is actually an isolated unit situated inside the Sheriff’s Residence—indeed, it adjoins the Meiers’ kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t care about anything. ‘Let him go to jail,’ he says.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Paul had spent five weeks in jail; she had been on a hunger strike for twenty-two days. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Honestly, I didn’t know what to do. None of the deputies at the jail were talking to me anymore,” Dad said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z On the day of the execution, Tom, who was twelve years old, stood on a tier inside the jail. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One of the accessories we had inherited from a neighbor was a little jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could see them getting lost, being run over, and landing in jail,” Bloom said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My grandpa had been in and out of jail for crimes he committed while intoxicated, and my grandmother had divorced him because he abused her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Him: Two reasons: If Noah can be eighteen or sixteen or even fourteen when he has to watch his father go to jail, that will be better than it happening when he’s thirteen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He moved on to other subjects, but it was clear that his heart and his mind were aligned with the plight of the condemned and those facing unjust treatment in jails and prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ali never caved to the pressure to reject Islam or to fight in Vietnam, even with the threat of jail time and a suspended boxing license. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Among the possibilities mentioned were jail fever, camp fever, eruptive military fever, and autumnal fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I discovered that Uncle Lee had been in jail longer than I had been alive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In fact, he had been one of the most reliable of those who went to jail during the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” Jon answered, “that man Bate and his friend are out of jail, you know. Last spring they were selling falcons to an Arabian agent, and I haven’t heard yet that they’ve reformed.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Any municipal jail, he figured, expects many of their prisoners to leave within a day or two, through bonds or dropped charges or any number of outcomes for the small-time offender. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Good to see you. Wasn’t sure if you’d found your way back last night. Wouldn’t have looked very good if I’d had to bail you out of jail, you know. Might have caught some heat.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The hospital was a high-priority location, so it got the first water deliveries, and county jail, being a government facility, never had its water shut off like all the municipal water districts had. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z For kids of color, the ratios were reversed—two-thirds served time in state facilities, while one-third received probation or jail. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The cellar that had been his jail cell. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Joon and I are jailed inside with only a soccer ball and one old library book. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Lucky that I wasn’t killed in my encounters as a teenager, or did not end up in jail. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They are ready to break down the jail if they must to get to the prisoner. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re going to visit her?” my mother said with definite interest, but with that edge that suggested she thought Miles meant “visit her in jail.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z No need to punish her in jail by waiting. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The audience knew that Kehler was facing jail time himself for refusing to cooperate with the draft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Besides, there were probably a bunch of other reasons he was in jail, but nobody ever tells me anything. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The jail, in Hampden town, was in an annex of the courthouse. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We ran through the jail yard and out the gates of the prison, the monster right behind us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the morning the woman told the boy that she wanted him to walk to town, to the jail behind the courthouse, and take the cake to his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time of the meeting he claimed to have attended to plan the Port Elizabeth riot, he was serving a sentence for fraud in a Durban jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d thought the woman would end up in jail one day—they all did eventually. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Jelly was in jail for passing bad bills. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fellas, I have to get a man out of jail. See you around.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Of course we want to say something, do something. But if we speak out, we’ll be jailed. Then who will take care of you?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Some were given long jail sentences or deported to the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It couldn’t feel good knowing that a whole town didn’t want you, that they would throw you in jail for being there, or put you on a chain gang because you were without a job. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the stories ended with somebody going to jail. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z When he got out of jail, he said, he hoped to return to the reservation: “I had rather live at Gray Horse than any place on earth.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He began to sweep with a wide broom while the radio poured forth sad songs about lonely highways, broken hearts, and jail. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Her wallet and sweatshirt were taken from her—the bailiff told Luma she couldn’t wear the sweatshirt in the jail because it might be contaminated with lice. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She did not receive any additional jail time. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir. Palmer called him down to the jail and told him I resisted an arrest for drunken driving. He hit me when I came up to the bars to talk to him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Birmingham jails filled up beyond legal capacity, the school buses delivered the arrested children to the Birmingham fairgrounds—the grounds where Kiddieland was located. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Nok suddenly remembered what her father had told her years ago: when the Governor rose to power, the first thing he had built wasn't a temple, but a jail. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z After a month of being held in jail, the charges against you are dropped. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to spend his life in a jail cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Did you ever visit your daddy in jail?” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “A law that says kids have to live in a jail? You’d blame me for breaking a law like that?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But, each evening, seconds before the lights were dimmed, as if in obedience to some silent command, the hum of voices would stop and the entire jail would become silent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why I went to jail. It was on account of the music.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z "Fernando, he’s your brother. He made calls to try to get you out of jail. I know you fought the other day, but — ’’ "Ha!” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A few days later, Meng arrives at the tent site all flushed and out of breath, telling us he has just returned from the Youn jail. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’ll call the cops and I’ll be grounded forever only in a jail cell. It would be best if you went in because nobody will arrest an old lady.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Hold on, Kabir. At this point we don't need to prove anything. Your mother has already spent more time in jail than if she'd been convicted." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Briana asked: “So are you guys trying to get it so he goes to jail?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I made a lot of mistakes, and went to jail, but I wasn't on the road to ruin like everybody said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I was greatly distressed by her imprisonment, though she was apparently not mistreated this time and emerged from jail in December even firmer in her commitment to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My uncle, he gets drunk sometimes and winds up in jail. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Out of fear for their lives, George's family fled town late that night, leaving George behind in jail with no family support. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The next time I saw her, she was a wreck of a woman, notorious around black Roxbury, in and out of jail. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking that I could be jailed for such behaviour if the police were ever to get wind of it did not prevent me from being spontaneous. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He would get revenge, especially against those who had wanted him in jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It’s like when Oscar and I were on the floor of the jail cell room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Ralph had never even asked what jail it was that he wasn’t supposed to call. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The best young Americans were going to war or going to jail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The more time I spent in jail, the more I realized that the law isn’t rational at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The jail resembled a fortress, with barred windows and cold stone passageways and tiered cells. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Tanvi Ma'am meets us the next day to take us back to jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z "You really think I want to put you in jail? Ah. This many years and this is what your son thinks, Rona?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The gas station man yelled, “I mean it. The sheriff gonna throw you in jail, all of you.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Poor thing isn't used to being in jail yet." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “I would, but he hasn’t done anything I can jail him for. You know what the laws are.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z That’s the last I heard him yell before we got inside, where I had an overpowering impulse to kneel down and kiss the jail- house floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A baker’s oven in the ruins of the shop like a grim totem, human remains bent behind the steel of a jail cell. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I suppose Amma is struggling in her own way, scared to hope that I'll actually be able to get her out of jail, because it's hard enough just to get through each long jail day. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He was stopping at the jail so the father could speak to his son. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z On Good Friday, April 12, 1963, Dr. King himself was arrested and locked up in a Birmingham jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Fred felt the loop loosen around his neck and was about to smile in gratitude just as the jail door slammed shut in his face. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “You call being thrown in jail a little mess-up?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z "The police put my mother in jail, even though she didn't do anything wrong," I say. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Is that how you want to end up, goin’ to jail for him? The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is wrongful detention! No, worse—abduction! That’s it, abduction. Are you aware how many years in jail you’d get for it?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He had been lured into the open, and trapped, twice trapped; trapped by being in jail for murder, and again trapped by being stripped of emotional resources to go to his death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her husband was serving time in the county jail across the street for being drunk or some petty crime like that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “We’re not getting out of jail. Don’t even think that.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In fact, there are more than three times the number of seriously mentally ill individuals in jail or prison than in hospitals; in some states that number is ten times. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Don’t fool yourselves, counsel told us, you people might go to jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But if he didn’t sell Felix the letter, then X-Ray would go to jail. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The jails were full of them, a warden later would testify. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He even posed as a slave catcher named “James Olney,” prying slaves from jail on the pretext of delivering them to their masters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Funny that jail was one of the safest places to be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “No, I mean really beats her. The kind of beatings they take people to jail for in Arlington.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z All those criminals didn’t march into jail by themselves, of course. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The ANC emerged as a truly mass-based organization with an impressive corps of experienced activists who had braved the police, the courts, and the jails. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So that same day of Janie’s great sorrow she was in jail. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A few weeks later, in jail, Bobby hung himself with a bed- sheet. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The slave catcher handed Homer the gazettes and the fugitive bulletins he’d collected from the deputy in the jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You want to go to jail, eh?” he asks. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In fact, in some jurisdictions, individuals may “choose” to go to jail as a way to reduce their debt burdens, a practice that has been challenged as unconstitutional. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He did not take me to jail, however. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z While she interviewed a prisoner at the jail, she’d leave one of her kids in the holding cell and tell them, “This is what it’s like” if you do something wrong. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Liyana said, “I didn’t see chains,” but Khaled’s cousin, the one who had been in jail himself, said, “Believe me, they have everything.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I believe there should be a total ban on housing children under the age of eighteen with adults in jails or prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The boy told her that the jailer was mean to visitors but that he didn’t say nothing to the people in jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you were supposed to be in the jail.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you ever come back to this jail, Dacus. Don’t you ever come near me,” Palmer spat in the half light of the anteroom, a wantonness twisting his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z You were able to strike a deal that got you out of jail early? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent a couple of weeks in jail, waiting for a bail hearing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Kind Sam in jail; Sam tarred and feathered, interrogated about the underground railroad, broken-boned and senseless. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He led us around to the front, where there were two rows of jail cells, all of them empty. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Meanwhile he’s sitting in jail, talking about fighting for his principles. He wants to be a martyr, Noah, that’s fine—but not at the expense of this family. I won’t stand for it!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z 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. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I know you already got some jail time, kid.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was also the hard labor and jail time, punishments that were even more brutal here than back in Romania. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “These are the faces of every Resistance fighter I’ve hunted down, every Scholar I’ve jailed and executed, most before my tenure as Commandant. Some after.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “That’s the first jail house on Long Island,” Mrs. Baker said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And in jail, I had Malli for a friend, who was so much younger but never asked questions as ignorant as Junaid's. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Then it suddenly occurred to Bigger that he need not be standing, that he had no reason to fear bodily harm from Jan here in jail. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Many a peddler was in jail because he had been caught with the evidence on his person; I figured a way to avoid that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than two hours after Guiteau died, an autopsy was performed on his body at the jail by Dr. Daniel Lamb, who had also done the postmortem on James Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “They were tried,” Mustafa adds, “and they might serve jail time.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “The Mosses need a nice, long time-out in jail to think about what they did,” I responded. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Palsson began visiting Bobby at the jail and met with some of the Japanese officials to see what he could do. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “No child of Athena has ever found it. Annabeth, what’s down there? What’s guarding it? If it’s got to do with spiders—?” “Won through pain from a woven jail,” Frank recalled. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Their pleas reached our office, and I was looking into the case along with the jail and prison cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When my mother was three months pregnant with my younger sister, Caroline, she was arrested in a sweatshop raid and spent three days in an immigration jail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I was scared of Rowdy and I was scared of getting thrown in jail for vandalism, so I ran. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z If you were caught harboring any enemies of the regime even if you yourself were not involved in their schemes, you would be jailed, and everything you owned would become the property of the government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it is captured by wicked men and thrown into tiny jails. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “The power unleashed by the jailing destroyed the Star—and the Coven. But the Scholars rejoiced, for the jinn were defeated. All but the greatest of them.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Just before supper, Jackie called and told me she went to see Scrappy in jail and he got a tattoo. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I am sure you don’t want to languish in the dungeons of Limerick jail far from friends and family. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t think of anything but Rosaleen back there in jail. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He financed him for two weeks and at the end of that time Gay was in jail on his wife’s charge and he never did go for turtles. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish Grandma Knife were here to break up the argument, like I've seen her do with angry women in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z That night, hundreds of protesters assembled outside the courthouse and jail where their friends were held. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The demonstrators had fulfilled Martin Luther King’s 1960 challenge to “fill up the jails.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The penalty for violating the pass laws was thirty days in jail or a fine of fifty rand, nearly half her monthly salary. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Maybe they would really try Bubber in court and put him in a children’s jail. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “If this doesn’t work,” he said aloud, “I’ll have to feed the little eyas. That will change her whole life. “I also might be jailed for harboring an endangered species.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z His speech, which defended a jailed socialist, did not please his high school principal, but he graduated near the top of his class. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and it sound like he gonna lead you peoples right into jail,” Jones said, covering the bar with some more smoke. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What a fool he had been to come here instead of going to jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It didn't take me long to realize that he wasn't talking about what had happened with George or with his mom but about what had happened at the jail. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z By the fall of 1917, more than 500 suffragists had been arrested and 168 had spent time in jail, most for “obstructing sidewalk traffic.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They took him to jail, booked him for vagrancy and intoxication, and locked him in a cell. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z By this time, getting arrested was routine for Nation, who never remained in jail long after regaling her keepers with stories of her wild escapades. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “He should talk. He gets in trouble all the time. He’s been arrested, been to jail, just like everybody else.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “A lot of people had suffered during the previous two months. A lot of people had been beaten and hurt and jailed. But no one had died. Not until now.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think no one in the world was ever happier to see a jail than I was when we turnt a corner and the Dee-troit jail was jus’ a block away. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t even have a policeman, and there certainly was nothing resembling jail. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What jail meant to me at the time was that you had to get some money together to get out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Maybe even the jail, in case the town decided they were vagrants. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If Jerome Paisley had succeeded in killing Kaira, Armpit would have spent the rest of his life in jail. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z On the ride home from jail, coming over the viaduct, Reverend Johnson said something to me I’ll never forget. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I know that people go to jail even when they don’t deserve to,” I said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I go back to that question,” he says, referring to whether he spent enough time in jail for his crime. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I often visited the home of Amina Pahad for lunch, and then suddenly, this charming woman put aside her apron and went to jail for her beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I shouldn’t be thinking about my own problems when Yule May is in jail, but I know what this means for the book. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Finally, she was pregnant, and I warned her of the physical hardship and humiliations of jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I know it will be awful for Kim when I die, but I also think about what she said, about not being scared, about jail being easy compared to losing me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And if he got really angry, he might drag Mama and Doc off to jail, leaving me and Jay alone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Either that or by the time you get this, I’II be in jail. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “He was thrown in jail like a common criminal just because he couldn’t pay his debts.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re not sorry. I knew somebody like you once—hung him twelve years ago in front of the county jail. We used to do that here.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He told her he heard some people singing in the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was jailed for inciting riots that weren’t riots but peaceful gatherings. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “And now they’re dead, your brother is in jail, and you want our help.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “But could I still end up going to jail after spending a whole year on some island?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I wanted to run, but I’d rather be in trouble with Mama than in jail. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I shake my head, thinking about Yule May in jail, and Miss Skeeter without any friends left. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The same morning he was released from jail, he went out and got himself hired by a company called Tropical Rescue. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He then suggested that they could avoid fines and jail time if they asked the women to take an oath so that the women would assume responsibility for their actions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He reports that when the villagers heard about this, hundreds of them rushed to the jail and demanded that the Khmer Rouge soldier be released to them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But before he could come to me, I had to convince the police that he did not belong in jail. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Five years, ten years, even a hundred years of jail can’t change that. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z "They had a school in jail. I had a nice teacher called Bedi Ma'am." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z With each attack, images flash: police, handcuffs, jail, courthouse, and judge. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z All in all, the sisters spent almost eight months in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Usually the kids would be sent to the stocks, or the jail at the outpost, but the officers want to see First Friday. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z To put the matter in perspective, consider this: there are more people in prisons and jails today just for drug offenses than were incarcerated for all reasons in 1980. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The thousands from Orleans Parish Prison, including those who were in jail for public intoxication, shoplifting, and other misdemeanors, had been left on the city’s Broad Street overpass for three days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Chaos continued to rule in our country when, two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as police led him through the basement of the Dallas jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It's hard to imagine a place that's hotter than our jail cell in summer when the fan cuts off and the smell of sweat and sewage clogs my nostrils worse than usual. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I figured she was just depressed, thinking about Dad returning to jail and how he might never get his captain’s license and how our quiet3 seminormal life was a total mess again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Nearly one in five prison and jail inmates has a serious mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In a way, I wish I didn’t read about his jail term in the local paper. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z All she could hope was that from now on, and maybe forever, she would never be in jail and nobody would ever point a gun at her again. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Supporting his family was as difficult as ever, but he was glad that at least he was not in jail. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He said it would pay enough money for him to afford a good lawyer and get Amma out of jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z "Plus this bathroom smells as good as jasmine compared to the one in jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “You, Count Olaf, will go to jail, and the three children will live with me.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “All I could think was: ‘I cannot let Reggie spend a single night in jail.’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to end up in an Italian jail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was his greatest terror, the idea of his son in jail. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She looked like she wanted us all to fill our lips with snuff and go directly to the Tiburon jail and spit on people’s shoes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Without cash to buy from the jail’s commissary, they go hungry and lose weight. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z ‘The police come in and taken him to the jail in the Black Maria. He still locked up.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He had to pay some enormous fine to avoid spending several months in jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Burns led the picketing demonstrations and served more time in jail than any other suffragist in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Another time, at the jail, a prisoner pulled a knife and stabbed his father from behind. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Naw. Down south. Jacksonville, Florida. Bad country, boy. Bad, bad country. You know they ain’t even got an orphanage in Jacksonville where colored babies can go? They have to put ’em in jail. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Cole’s lawyer spoke in terms of a reduced jail term for good behavior. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I assured him that we would provide him with warm clothing and that he would spend only a night in jail, but to no avail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This degree of fraud can have him thrown in jail for a minimum of twenty years and blacklisted from working pretty much anywhere ever again. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It’s a jail cell of a room with a table and a couple chairs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z On June 7, several days after the death of his daughter, Ernest Burkhart was being escorted from the courtroom back to the county jail. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “We ain’t got time. Skri’s waiting for us. Let’s sell these birds before the bird cop finds us and we go back to jail.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z By refusing to work in the prison’s basket-weaving shop, Osborne got himself sentenced to a night in the “jail”—a barely lit room between Auburn’s Death Row and its generator that contained eight metal cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 4, 1942, while most Americans were celebrating Independence Day, the Nazi saboteurs were transferred to a jail in Washington, DC, under the custody of the army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Friendship jail, or in this case, big sister jail. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z As Zeitoun had suspected, the jail was built largely by hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Lawrence was working full-time on the railroad and living in a house filled with children, Zakariyya was still in jail, and times had gotten tough for Sonny, who was now busy selling drugs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “No way was I gonna let ’em throw you in jail or send you to some lab to be studied. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I looked at my mother, who was obviously waiting for Dad to explain why escaping from jail was such a grand idea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z "It's not a jail to him," she says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Nobody’s going to jail. Okay? But I need to understand what happened.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z "No ... not exactly. But she said there could be criminal prosecution, and that means you get arrested, and when you get arrested, they take you to jail. So it's the same thing." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been in jail so long that talking out of the side of his mouth just came naturally. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z You could jail your own fears and drift away with the clouds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She's like the guy who spends sixteen years in jail, and then gets out, and hates having to make all the decisions of regular life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "What's happened to you, Helmuth? You had better watch your step or you could find yourself sitting in jail—or worse." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, everyone is taken to a jail next door, run by la migra. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Maybe some day he would be eating in jail. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He did his first stint in jail, and then a second. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Maybe you should go home,” I say, then remember about the park, about jail. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Thanks to all the newspaper coverage, gangsters and mobsters across the country now knew exactly who was decoding their secret messages—and whose evidence was sending them to jail. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I hope they learn how wrong what they did was, and that they don't actually have to go to jail. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He had warned her repeatedly that they could both be put in jail, or he could be returned to prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Law enforcement officials, he explained, often point to the racial composition of our prisons and jails as a justification for targeting racial minorities, but the empirical evidence actually suggested the opposite conclusion was warranted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z You go to jail or you put somebody else in jail? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now you sit up at the counter cause you’re at the Wool- worfs and you’re colored. And you got to stay there no matter what I do or you go to jail.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I think about Yule May setting in jail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They dragged him foot by foot through the hall of the jail. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Was she perfectly fine sending innocent people to jail? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t dare tell Dad about the stranger grabbing my sister, because I knew he’d bail himself out of jail in a flash and go hunting for the guy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “You got more people been in jail in New York than been in college,” Bianca said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z After our reunion at Uncle Sammie’s, my grandfather was sent to jail for selling drugs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z While in the Russell County jail, he became acutely psychotic. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Eventually he let me go on the assumption that I was some wayward orphan, because what mother would send her ten-year-old child to jail? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She said if I tried to get my baby back, I’d go to jail, because the baby’s new parents paid my hospital. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Well, let’s get out of here anyway. He knows we were in jail for selling falcons and hawks to wealthy Saudi Arabian falconers. That’s a federal offense. Remember?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “We didn’t even think we could go to jail for it. Honestly, we didn’t think about jail when it happened.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z At 1:25, two ambulances arrived at the jail. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Many parents stayed close to the jail and the fairgrounds so the released youngsters wouldn’t have to wander the empty city streets at night trying to find their way home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Leave him be, you—you stinking jail rat. You’re nothing but a common thief!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Frank added, “Won through pain from a woven jail?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The man that Churchill called ‘a naked little fakir,’ refusing food in a British jail? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "I shot him several times, as I wished him to go as easily as possible...Please order out your troops and take possession of the jail at once." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “He's already been in the jail for two nights, and I can’t get to him. I'm in Virginia, and my health is not good. Please tell me you'll do something.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Around here though, folks in jail get T-shirts in their honor just like folks in the grave. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Even saying that Germany should surrender could draw jail time or the death sentence. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z "I thought you knew better than to use a temple's water faucet! Didn't they teach you anything in jail?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z At that point, the Wilson administration changed its approach: It let the suffragists out of jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “What shall I tell the Inspector Uncle? What have we decided? D’you want to save Ammu or shall we send her to jail?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And the guard would laugh and say “I don’t know no names; I only know numbers. Besides, you can’t visit here, you can only visit in jail.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He says you cannot beat up somebody in jail and expect to get away with it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a white guy in America, just dark enough to pass for Latino, walking around jail doing bad Mexican-gangster dialogue from the movies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “How did you know to come down to the jail tonight? Was it Sammy?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just you, and you’re going back to your real mother in jail.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I still had fifteen dollars from Henry’s twenty but to call another cab I’d have to go back inside the jail and I didn’t want to do that. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He explained that Lou had to go to jail for a while—something having to do with school business and bribe-taking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The jail you plan for me is the one in which you will rot, Isay. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If they went outside a certain radius of their telephone, or tried to take the ankle thing off, the authorities would immediately be notified, and they’d be picked up and put in jail. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “I think he’s taken some money from his company. He doesn’t know whether his partners are going to put him in jail or let him try to pay it back.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I’d never been to a jail before, though honestly it wasn’t much of a jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The jails are full of men and women who have been trapped in the spider’s web of the Stanton investigation. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “The man ought to be in jail. He’s a menace to the public health.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I felt scared a lot, though, which feels kind of like jail too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A film crew videotaped Reggie’s entrance into jail on May 8. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “They say so. Apparently they’ve put her in jail for it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That figure, of course, does not include the thousands who avoid prison but are arrested, convicted, and sentenced to jail or probation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the Trenton jail the deputy treated him like a man of standing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A belief that all blacks belong in jail would be incompatible with the social consensus that we have “moved beyond” race and that race is no longer relevant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nobody walks into a jail cell and says, “Hi, guys! I’m Brian!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In fact, Cofield had served years in various prisons for fraud, much of it involving bad checks, and he’d spent his jail time taking law courses and launching what one judge called “frivolous” lawsuits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps none of the people in jail could read, and the big man with the red face would just tear it up and swear. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t proud that my dad was sitting in jail, but I knew he was a good person. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Then you’ll spend the night in jail for vagrancy and threatening behavior. We’ll let you on your way in the morning if you’ve learned to keep a civil tongue in your head.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Royal scouted the city jail for runaways the lawyer might defend, ran messages between enigmatic persons, and distributed funds from antislavery societies to relocated fugitives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Jackson sits in a jail cell awaiting some unknown fate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Martin Luther King, Jr., had been confined to a Birmingham, Alabama, jail cell since Good Friday, April 12, arrested in a fierce effort to integrate that city’s lunch counters and other facilities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Before we arrived from Arkansas, an incident took place that left the main actors in jail and in the hospital. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone had lost a child, somehow, to the streets, to jail, to drugs, to guns. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A day in jail is mostly silence punctuated by passing guards shouting profanities at you, doing roll call. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z "I only got out of jail so I can go back." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Maybe they were going to keep him in a jail on the South Side? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense—typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Benko requested and Bobby refused: “Yes, I wrote it, but I had a terrible time in that jail. I want to forget about it. No, I don’t want to sign it.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I forgot about how the suffragettes were hauled off to jail. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The county jails where Walter had been housed before his transfer were awful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z By the middle of February, nearly 3,400 demonstrators had been arrested, filling up the jails and several prison work camps in the area. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z By working part-time delivering groceries, when he wasn’t taking care of the newsstand, Mario thought he could earn enough in a couple of weeks to get Chester out of jail. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please, I need three hundred to get my son out of jail. I don’t have anything else. I’ve pawned everything!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When I told her what Dad had said at the jail, she got quiet for a while. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I guess that’s why we have police and lawyers. There’s a whole system in place. Do bad things, go to jail. Do really bad things, kill people, and you get a death sentence.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The chairs in his study bear the logo from their alma mater, Yale, which Vic notes the family mispronounces as jail. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “After he was arrested, his lawyer got him released the same day. He never spent a single night in jail.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “And they’d put me in jail for murder,” Mom cried, and the tears ran down her pale cheeks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He knows the dealer who threatened him has spent time in jail and owns a .57-caliber gun. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He ultimately achieves a personal and moral victory by finding the bad guy and throwing him in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m back in the headmaster’s office, back in jail. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When he arrived at the city jail badly bruised and bleeding, Mr. Ruffin told the other inmates that he had been beaten terribly and was desperately in need of his inhaler and asthma medication. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Just one-third of white youths were sentenced to adult or juvenile state correctional facilities in 2012, while two-thirds were given probation or sentenced to serve time in county jails. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “It don’t matter that a dentist pulls out perfectly good teeth just to make money? That’s awful. He ought to go to jail.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler, imprisoned for leading the Beer Hall Putsch, the failed coup attempt to seize power in Munich, read about Ploetz and race science while jailed in the 1920s and was immediately transfixed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In jail now, maybe thinking I put him there. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent a night in jail for the first time in his life. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z After her release from jail, Victoria Woodhull continued to spend time with her sister Tennessee Claflin and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Convinced that such a ceremony would be the outcome of any trial—certainly any trial held in the State of Kansas—he had decided to “bust jail. Grab a car and raise dust.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When Liyana asked what was going on, he said he couldn’t stop thinking about all the people who were still in jail—many for more ridiculous reasons than his own. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I told her about how the police pulled rootworkers out of their homes, beat them, and put them in jail. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z If those police officers weren’t going to jail, then it made sense that the whole prison system was messed up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The boy wanted to ask who carried in wood to keep the people in jail warm. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I never told. Maybe I was ashamed. I was a prisoner, Charles. I broke jail—I escaped.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I couldn't find jail books, I read concentration camp books and P.O.W. books. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Our schoolroom is quieter and nicer than anywhere else in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I say, “My mother is coming soon. She was in jail.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z From now on he would speak the truth, even if it meant going to jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z As they were leaving, the cameraman swept his lens over the whole outdoor jail, Zeitoun included. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then they were thrown into jail, executed, or sent to prison camps in the frozen wastes of Siberia. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He was less troubled by the closeness of his cell walls with the naked light put out, less conscious that he was jailed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The magistrate mumbled something about having a son my age, pulled me out of my dark jail cell after just two days, and marched me down to the orphanage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Where is Comrade Young? Is he sick? Is he dead? Is he in jail? Did the Communist party order him to stay away from the club?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He burst out: “Man, you were scared of jail, that is all. You have disgraced us, we Xhosas!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry about me. If I go to jail, it’s my own fault.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Under any circumstances, being in jail would have been a shock. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Later, when Mr. Costa came in to sweep, he listened to the radio sing a mournful song about a lonely truck driver in jail who longed for his eighteen-wheel rig and the open highway. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Hale, who had been tipped off regarding the potential breakthrough, rushed to the jail as well. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At home, we would occasionally get a knock on the door from a neighbor, and my father would step outside to talk, then drive off to bail someone out of jail. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z People who did were sentenced to three years in jail. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Because Mr. Blessington told me I was going to end up in jail, so why waste my time doing homework?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The inability of many disabled, low-income people to receive treatment or necessary medication dramatically increased their likelihood of a police encounter that would result in jail or prison time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z People around the world heard about the jailed children and sent monetary donations to help pay their bail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She tells her about the dozen foster homes and the nose ring and the argument with Dina and finding out on the Internet that her mother’s in jail. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “At least Mamá is home and not in jail,” Velia whispered close to my ear, so the others wouldn’t hear. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She didn’t have to go to jail over silk panties after all. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If it's so unbearably hot out in the open, I don't want to think how awful it must be inside the jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z After the crowd onshore watched Baker dump a weighted object into the river, the ship traveled around a bend to the site of the old jail, on the grounds of the Washington Arsenal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Even now, Dedd hears her sister, reciting that poem she wrote in jail, her voice raspy with the cold she never got rid of that last year. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The policeman stopping to break it up seized the black man, hauled him off to the police station, and threw him in jail for the next five days. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Spare the rod and spoil the child; spank the child and go to jail. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They called this detention space a room, but Cole knew it was really a jail cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Don’t make me wait too long. Remember, I can’t go to jail if I squeal. I’m only a dumb animal.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The town was built around a square in the manner of midwestem county seats, with the jail dominating the center. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later Amaranta brought the dozen handkerchiefs to him in jail along with the money and they spent several hours talking about the past. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The only image I had for jails was from westerns at the movies, and this one was nothing like that. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Before reading this book I was ashamed of having gone to jail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I thought, But if I do, I’ll probably get hurt again—maybe arrested and taken off to jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The only door that led into the jail had a small square of glass at about the height of a man, and there were iron bars over the glass. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m the only one who will go to jail.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That if Cap went to jail, I would be back in business as the number-one punching bag at C Average Middle School. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “The point is to get him out of jail, even if he doesn’t want to leave,” said Abbey. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They also tell me they pray at least five times each day, which is a whole lot more praying than all the women in jail put together. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He is sent to the same army jail holding the Surratt women. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Such rooms were usually reserved for gentlemen jailed for debt. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they put me back in the car and drove me to the city jail—the adult jail. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I think about Yule May, sitting in a jail cell writing this letter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He’d spent time in jail and been accused of murder, yet he was such a brilliant actor that every time he appeared on stage, the audiences would go wild. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z "The superintendent was fired," she tells me, "and we will be working to free more women and to make sure life will be better for those who remain in jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Released from jail, French immediately reverted to his old ways. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The voices come nearer to my jail cell. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But what would be the use, this isn’t a jail sentence; there’s no time here that can be done and finished with. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “After my son and daughter went to jail, I was determined to go also,” said one mother. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “We considered taking a stand, being arrested and going to jail to be an event that instilled the utmost pride,” one student demonstrator explained. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Given his background, Matt figured Tam Lin knew a lot about escaping from jails. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's important to have goals. Otherwise you're going to end up right back in jail. What do you like to do?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Last month David Harris went to jail. Our friends Warren and John and Terry and many others are already in jail.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Police arrested and jailed many of the British suffragettes, often treating them harshly. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "I—I don't have a plan yet, since I just got out of jail. But I'm hoping I can figure out a way to free Amma somehow." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Tell me about Joseph in the jail and the stone quarry in Egypt and chiselin’ out rocks to make ole Pharaoh’s gravestone,” the boy asked. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom says that jail is a hard place, and that it can make people hard, too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When my uncle gets out of jail he isn't just my uncle anymore, he is Robert the Muslim and wears a small black kufi. on his head. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Later, I’m in the jail cell room, fetching my portfolio, waiting for Guillermo, who needed to run an errand, when Oscar, once again buttoned and zipped, with camera at the ready, sticks his head in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z That same day, Deborah got a call about one of Lawrence’s sons who’d been arrested for robbery and was in the same jail as Alfred. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z To avoid raising the driver's suspicions, Guiteau didn't mention his true destination near the cemetery—the District of Columbia jail. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “The state called me to testify. What could I do? Refuse? The judge would’ve thrown me in jail.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I wonder what was worse, jail or war. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z We could’ve been back in the policeman’s car riding to jail for how I felt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps Lawson was lying in the hopes that prosecutors would reduce his jail time, in exchange for his testimony. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “If I keep you, the Fish and Wildlife Service will just take you away from me. Maybe even jail me. You’re an endangered species. I can’t harbor an endangered species. I’ve learned that much! “ Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We scream and laugh, try to break free, but his lock-strong arms keep us in jail. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “And Mama be in the Parchman jail,” says Benny for everybody to hear. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z An agent reported that Morrison, after being released from jail, seemed “frightened out of his wits.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The old jail was only temporary quarters for us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, she tells me people are looking into the conditions at our jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I think of the skinny tree in the jail schoolyard and how much it must have struggled to grow without anyone taking care of it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z If only they had made different choices, they’re told sternly, they wouldn’t be sitting in a jail cell; they’d be graduating from college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She had been arrested, dragged from a bus, charged with breaking the segregation law, and jailed. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z After months in the county jail, away from death row, Myers again realized he didn't want to implicate himself in a murder he had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The Count of Monte Cristo. Another great Dumas book. An innocent man is betrayed, accused of treason, imprisoned, and after many long years, escapes. Napoleon, jealous of General Dumas, sent him to jail.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He had paid Red Pettus ten dollars and sent him home as soon as the patrol car had pulled within sight of the jail. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an accusation that could bring jail or even the death penalty. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He had been beaten by mobs and thrown in jail, and his house had been bombed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sheriff Dean stood in the doorway of the jail, nursing a mug of Shady’s brew. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Technically, Mama resigned from her job here. But she was really fired. It was a pretty big deal. She could have gone to jail.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z My aunt continued to be her sweet self with me only until her boyfriend got out of jail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “They threw him in jail for a year. I guess they thought he had a choice.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She wants to see me in jail, Kit thought. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “I want the Thieves Quarter emptied and every villain jailed until I am safely on my honeymoon.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They made mass arrests of students, sending them to the local jail, and when that was filled to capacity, to prison camps outside of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This place held him prisoner more securely than any jail cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Miss Lilian got away with killing us. She never went to jail, she was never punished.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Three weeks after Dusty was let out of jail, they arrested him again for attempting to steal cigarettes from a food store. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Failing to obtain a satisfactory answer, he refused to leave jail, whereupon police again remanded him to his cell upon a charge of disorderly conduct. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The charge: misdemeanor battery with a hate-crime enhancement, which carried a maximum penalty of a year and a half in county jail. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She still wanted him to serve jail time and she wanted something good to come from the tragedy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Built jails to dwell on and hold on to its own private decay. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At least in jail he would have been in the safety and comfort of a cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The Walton County jail was a dull structure surrounded by a tangle of razor wire that ran along a chain-link fence and glistened in the sunlight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Pretrial detainees are generally housed in local jails, where they enjoy more privileges and more latitude than convicted criminals who are sent to prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “So would this get me out of going to jail?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Drive them to the darkest corners of the kingdom, starve them, throw them in jail or put them out to war.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In Emmett’s first year, the jail held nearly three hundred prisoners, including four murderers, sixty-five thieves, two arsonists, twenty-four burglars, two forgers, five rapists, and twenty-four inmates classified as lunatics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You think it’s funny to send a man to jail for something he ain’t done? You lowlife children! I ought to kill both of you! How dare you lie on a good man like Jordan?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘My father says Tonsil Ticklers were invented for dangerous prisoners in jail,’ he said. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But we had also learned that many D.A.’s saw attacks on correction officers as low-priority prosecutions, since the criminals were already in jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I lived in Atlanta, Georgia, but I had been admitted to the Alabama bar a year earlier after working on some cases in Alabama concerning jail and prison conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Shorty and I are going to rot in jail, and not just because of what we stole. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z On November 5, 1872—Election Day—Woodhull was still in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He built the town courthouse and the jail. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He had briefly gone to jail at the beginning of the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, in order that he might safely testify at the trial, he had been removed from the prison and lodged in a small jail in an adjacent county. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The music, the anthem of Saturday night debauch, filtered to them through the jail stones that now enveloped them, isolated them with Junior Palmer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew money would be tight at our house as long as Dad was in jail—my mother only works part-time at the law firm, so the pay isn’t so hot. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z We finally compromised on pumpkins, after I explained how much he could probably get for them at Halloween, not to mention the advantages of staying out of jail. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when people are charged with extremely serious crimes, such as murder, they may find themselves languishing in jail for years without meeting with an attorney, much less getting a trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He shouted, “Soon she’ll come down to our zoo and tell us that her jails are full, she needs more space. Could we put Desai with the lions?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I snuck out of the house anyway and almost went to jail myself when I got caught outside past curfew by the cops. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He continued ranting about Mama going to jail and ignorant children and respect for elders. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They impound the car and take him to jail, where he spends the night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The jail physician wrote the Marion County Board of Health that due to “close confinement and very hot weather” Fannie risked great injury to her health. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But how could I even have a glimmer of happiness right now with my mother in jail for no reason? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “I go to work,” she said wearily, “and I don’t know when I’m going to get that call, that your son is dead or in jail again.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They had lifted the trapdoor in the roof of the jail, allowing the half-dozen delinquent citizens of the county to climb outside so their voices might add to the clamor. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In Russia at the time, a man could be thrown in jail for stealing a loaf of bread, then languish in a detention center for up to four years before his trial began. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They made the rest of the trip on foot in the dead of night, hiking through mountains and rough terrain, terrified that they would be caught and thrown in jail. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Of course, my father happily agreed just to get out of jail. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z It was while James Callender was serving his sentence for libel in a Richmond jail that he first heard rumors of Jefferson’s sexual liaison with a mulatto slave named Sally Hemings. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The lawyer, who was subsequently disbarred and jailed for unrelated criminal misconduct, also never challenged the State's decision to try Trina as an adult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When he got out of jail he was different. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I became acutely aware of the enclosure’s impassable boundary all around me, the sensation of being in a jail cell; it became all the more important to get out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Women were banned from laughing out loud or wearing nail polish, and they were beaten or jailed for walking without a male family member. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “If any of you are not gentleman enough to give this lady a seat,” he said, “you should be put in jail yourselves.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes in jails like this, the guards resist uncuffing clients, arguing that it's not safe or permitted to take the handcuffs off a suspect during a legal visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "Does he have to go in a cage? It reminds me of jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to go to jail,” Luke said, feeling like a kid again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And his conduct in providing clandestine instructions to Adams’s cabinet undermined the constitutional authority of the executive branch in ways that would have landed him in jail in modern times. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Facing the impossibility of finding anyone to intervene, convinced that her son would be shot at dawn, Úrsula wrapped up the things she wanted to bring him and went to the jail alone. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z That old trifling Cholly been out of jail two whole days and ain’t been here yet to see if his own child was ’live or dead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z If you believed them, then the only way to make sense of the world was with courts and judges, rules and jails. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Some become fearful they will go crazy in the jail. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But I will not let him spend a night in jail.’” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was rare for a witch to be jailed; only killings on a mass scale and usage of dangerous Forbidden Curses ever warranted it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Tom never knew why she was in jail, and his father never discussed it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Amma must have worn colorful saris, too, when she was a maid, instead of the plain uniform of old shirts and long skirts that all the women wear in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z During Mardi Gras, when the local jails were full, the New Orleans police often housed drunks and thieves in temporary jails set up in tents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Uncle Lee hadn’t been out of jail that long, and although he came to the house on more or less a regular basis, I never saw evidence of the closeness between them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The black sheep in the manager’s family was named Oscar, and he had been in and out of reform school as a teenager and in and out of jail as a grown-up. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The cops and the FBI would hunt him down, rescue the two stolen dogs, send the other mutts to the nearest animal control center, and haul him off to jail. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Cole must go to jail and get anger counseling,” somebody said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Life for Gerald and Angel continued to be rough even after Jordan went off to jail. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I got out of high school and found that I wasn’t in jail, I thought I was in the clear. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, it was coming in this larger context of the prospect of a trial and jail, and of the months of it all eating away at him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In jail, I had continued my exercises, and was pleased to be so trim. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Owning the literature was enough for a spell in jail, and when you were released you did not stay in town long. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The men at the jail were rude to them and they were able to find out very little. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z As for the public, the sentiment among most people was: “What are they going to do, throw him in jail for ten years for moving wooden pieces across a chessboard?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So Monkeyman got hurt and the guy that hurt him would be in jail until he wasn’t a kid anymore. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The cameramen, pursuing the prisoners and the police into the courthouse and up three flights of stairs, photographed the door of the county jail slamming shut. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z All of his efforts and money were used to keep his friend out of jail because of such charges as theft, committing public indecencies, and assault and battery. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The Daniels, another rootworking family on the island, got dragged out of their house and away to jail. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “He don’t care about his poor dear mother. Sometimes I think Ignatius wouldn't mind if they did throw me in jail. He’s got a heart of ice, that boy.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I might be out of jail, I said, but I was not yet free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They went to the jail to meet with the assassin, though officials turned them away. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Jasper’s reward was fifty dollars, fifteen of that for the tinker who brought the fugitive to jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Break a pinky promise and people will make you feel like you in jail or something. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z She hardly ever did that, not like some others she had seen in the girls’ room fussing with themselves as if a stray hair could send them to jail. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z If we are caught being part of the operation as either an abettor or a refugee, the Vietnamese government could take our gold and throw us in jail for five years. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The jail cells were constructed in tiers three high, and Fannie’s cell was on the top tier where men below could peer up at her through a grating. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Every time she sees them, she’ll be reminded of her father in the cage that is his jail cell. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "I don't like milk," I start to say, but then I taste it, and it's nothing like the whitish water we got in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z By Molly’s next birthday she was living with a new family, and her mother was in jail. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “If I got to act like I’m in jail I might as well go on back to Carver.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z He’s in jail ’cause he was with Johnny. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "And you left him in the lurch, didn't you? You let him go to jail for a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject of YOU." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “We must be ready to march. We must be ready to go to jail by the thousands....Our cry to the state of Alabama is a simple one. Give us the ballot!” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Larson said, “If that comedian lived in this country or this country or this country, and if he had told that joke about the president last night, today he would probably be in jail.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z "I'm not sure how that will be possible, since you will be rotting in jail for the rest of your days." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He had a hangdog look, which came from the three months he had just spent in jail for hijacking a truck. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It’s not enough. Can’t you put Collins in jail or something?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z More than a quarter of them had been arrested in North Korea, and ten percent said they had been sent to jails, where forced starvation, torture, and executions were commonplace. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “My father’s in jail and I want to help him out. That’s all.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I bet he just got out of jail. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You shall rise or jail by the ghost king’s hand,” Annabeth said, “the child of Athena’s final stand.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z After all, I'm used to having a half-empty stomach from mornings in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I know you lived in a world where black folks were hosed and beaten and jailed and killed while fighting for equal rights, but you still managed to be, like, dignified and everything. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And they’ll play hopscotch, transferring upstate from one “jump jail” to the next, until they can finally live at home again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cooper, a motel clerk, was taken to jail in two pairs of handcuffs with a wound over her right eye. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a tableau of frustration that might’ve been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And if they did decide to explore on their own, without permission, they could be thrown in jail, sentenced to hard labor, or lose some of their hard-earned wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z By contrast, in other developed countries around the world, a first-time drug offense would merit no more than six months in jail, if jail time is imposed at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was betting that at her size, she wasn’t having a good time in jail. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I rode away wondering how to tell my mother that Dad was now doing television interviews from jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I started to remind him that Scrappy is in a correctional facility, not a jail, but he and Jackie had already moved on to talking about that Bible Detective game at Sunday school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “You do know that banishment is much harder than any jail cell, don’t you?” he said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Their faces were pinched, their expressions indrawn as though they felt themselves being dragged down the jail stairway, felt their own heads bumping against the steps, experiencing the terror . Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it now looked as if the Poppers would never see that check, since they could not get the penguins out of jail long enough to put on their act at the Royal Theater. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Her thoughts don't float out of jail as often as mine. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A few cars were there, probably night-duty police or county jail guards, and except for those, the lot was empty, quiet, and dark. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Do you want to go to jail? Get shot up in the streets? Take that Black Panther mess off and act like you know better.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Without jail, there could be no writ of habeas corpus. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “It tastes good, but it also tastes a little bit like being in jail.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z And then he thought of the morning when his father got him out of jail. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Honestly, spending a few days in jail might not have been the worst thing to happen to me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The boy felt numb and cold, like he had felt standing outside the jail door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You the one that sent me to jail. I ain't forgot that!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam’s voice faltered as he told her how their friend was beaten in the jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Only one person was in jail after the shooting—our poor dear bus driver. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Rose Winslow, another of the hunger strikers, smuggled a statement out of the jail with a prisoner who was being released. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “He’s in jail, honey,” the other policeman said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He’d have regular visions of the door to the jail shutting behind him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If I made it through today without going to jail, it would be a miracle. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Flanking it on foot were the Cowgill brothers, who had all grown up to be good Christian men, except for Ernie, who was in jail. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “We are put out of jail as we were put in it—at the whim of the government,” she said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "My dad's in jail for trying to shoot me and my mother," I blurted. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z "I have managed to put my Mother, Father, and Uncle into jail, decent People who never have done a thing wrong in their life." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Maybe a jail cell wouldn’t be so bad. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “I would never let you go to jail for me.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Who cares about the button, Mom? Diego’s in jail because of me!” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Years earlier, he had been drawn into a bar fight that resulted in a misdemeanor conviction and a night in jail. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In the room there was another deputy—a broad, jowly bear standing next to the door that led to the jail cells. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In Colton, California, he was discovered by another bull and thrown in jail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a crime to give false information to a police officer. And for someone like yourself, with a prior offense and still on probation, you could be facing quite a bit of jail time.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Thousands of black men have disappeared into prisons and jails, locked away for drug crimes that are largely ignored when committed by whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fact that this “career” path leads almost inevitably to jail is often understood as an unfortunate fact of life, part of what it means to be poor and black in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Some mean governor or sheriff got mad and had them thrown right into the jail stove, big as a furnace, but the Lord blew out the fire and cooled the big stove in a second. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She said she’d learned that particular strategy by watching a documentary about guys who get killed in jail. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z |
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