Sentences with phrase «american jailhouse»

Elsewhere, his figures stand buried in sand at the mouth of an estuary, or hang from the ceiling of an American jailhouse.

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Much of the chatter on jihadi chat boards comes from Europeans and Americans, often social outcasts living vicariously through the online reputation of their handle — including disenfranchised teens or jailhouse Muslim converts turned radicals, Scott said.

Later films like 1998's American History X also invoke the culture of jailhouse lifting, even though real California prisons currently do not feature equipment beyond dip and pull - up bars.

His short story, The Jailhouse Lawyer, was selected for the anthology 1999, The Best American Mystery Stories.

Hoke, a jailhouse chaplain, gives us an unvarnished account of his work with the «disposables» of our flawed American justice system via anecdotes that range from funny to poignant to tense and tragic.

At the core of the American democratic architectural tradition is the modest, single - family house, which gave rise to the statehouse, the courthouse, the firehouse, the schoolhouse, the jailhouse, and the President's house (as it was known before it became the White House)... The Architecture of Democracy traces a common line from the earliest colonial settlements to the Western frontier of the nineteenth century and today's ultramodern city centers.