Sentences with phrase «house as a prison»

Apparently Winchester built this house as a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts.

Apparently Sarah Winchester built this house as a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts.

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Called Alcatraz East, the facade will resemble a 19th century prison, and according to a press release, it will house such artifacts as John Dillinger's death mask, Al Capone's rosary, the Bronco from the OJ chase and «items related to the 2012 Benghazi attack.»

Some old prisons have seen new life as hotels and «haunted houses.»

Prison officials do not comment on which inmates are housed where, as a matter of long - standing policy.

Gregory Craig, who served as Obama's first White House counsel, said that without an executive order, Obama would likely need the cooperation of Congress to shut down the prison.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is potentially facing years in prison as federal agents look into payoffs to a pair of women who claim they had affairs with Trump before he won the White House.

Killing a cat or dog for human consumption could carry a year in prison and as much as a $ 2,500 fine in the U.S., if the House farm bill becomes law.

We need waste dumps just as we need prisons and halfway houses.

I think mary jane needs to be legalized not necessarily because of the hypocrisy and that we should have the «freedom» as much as the windfall of cash from growing it, selling it and taxing it, the medicinal properties it can be used for, the huge amount of space available in prisons that would open up and house criminals doing really bad things instead beng caught with a pound of a specific plant.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

But before we confront it in general terms, we must address ourselves to the unpleasant task of hearing what the sick souls, as we may call them in contrast to the healthy - minded, have to say of the secrets of their prison - house, their own peculiar form of consciousness.

(Gen. 6:3) The tyrannies and destructions of our day are really the same in kind as those that made human life either a shambles or a prison house, or both, in the days of Nero when this earliest Gospel was written.

The body was sometimes regarded as a prison - house of the soul, so that death could even be welcomed for the much needed relief that it brought to the soul.

Who are still in captivity until this day all in the prison houses, or under imposed poverty, taught to us in Isaiah 42, teaching us the work that will, and is being done by the servant, the elect of YHWH, prophecy is in progress as we speak.

Chuck Colson is a convicted felon who went to prison for crimes as part of Nixon's gang of thieves in the White House.

Origins of such a notion go far back in human history, to primitive days when our remote ancestors thought that some special anima indwelt human bodies; it was given additional support by the teaching of certain of the Greeks, with their insistence on the soul as entirely distinct from, yet temporarily the tenant of, the body — at its most extreme this expressed itself in the saying soma sema, «the body is the prison - house of the soul».

You probably remember, Paladino told an AP reporter that as part of the program, they would teach people hygiene, and house them in abandoned or underutilized prisons.

The former rookie cop convicted in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed man in a housing - project stairwell dodged prison Tuesday — as his victim's angry kin warned that «justice...

The former NYPD officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed public housing resident as he entered a darkened stairwell in Brooklyn in 2014 does not pose a threat to the public and should not be sentenced to prison, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, who prosecuted him.

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He went on to say, «The prisons in Oneida County serve additional purpose aside from housing inmates, such as providing low - cost food operations, which serves the entire New York State prison system and the soon to be complete automated central pharmacy, which will do the same.

Actress and activist Julia Steele Allen plays Sara Foneseca, or Mariposa, as she is referred to in the play, and uses Mariposa's own words to express her experiences in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at a women's prison in California.

As prisons are expensive and take a long time to build, the result of a lack of capacity has been overcrowding, which is when prisons have to house more inmates than they are designed for.

Private prison companies also operate private immigration detention centers, which house as many as 65 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, and it is expected that the White House will expand the use of those prisons and private detention facilities to house immigrants it intends to hold and dehouse as many as 65 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, and it is expected that the White House will expand the use of those prisons and private detention facilities to house immigrants it intends to hold and deHouse will expand the use of those prisons and private detention facilities to house immigrants it intends to hold and dehouse immigrants it intends to hold and deport.

After approving the tax increase, House lawmakers quickly signed off on a reworked spending plan that would funnel funds to local schools, social service programs, higher education and other state operations such as the lottery, prisons and road projects.

«I've likened it to a prison sentence,» said Astorino, who said many people say they plan to move out of state in the near future as soon as they retire or the children leave the house.

As of last December, less than 23,000 federal inmates were housed in private prisons.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

She was brought up in a council house, went to a school they couldn't even be bothered to give a name — it was just called the Church of England school — and was told that as a future career she could visit people in prison.

The Hỏa Lò Prison, also known as the Hanoi Hilton, where several Americans (including John McCain) were held as prisoners of war during the Vietnam War, as well as the Hanoi Opera House.

On the men's side of the prison -LRB-... as for the «Gentlemen of the Big House»), Gene Raymond has some touching moments with a fellow inmate on death row, played well by Rockliffe Fellowes.

Women are not allowed to leave the house without a grown male relative as an escort, female faces and hair must be covered at all times so that they don't tempt men to stray from the righteous path, girls are not allowed to work or to buy food, and any rule breakers are taken to prison immediately.

Yet that stylistic clarity is as much a product of the film's often strained cinematic high points, such as when Mosab is told «welcome to the slaughter house» by a prison guard, a line clearly inserted to elicit a thriller - order ethos that's too easy a gesture to the ubiquitous violence of the war's innumerous military and civilian conflicts.

Because of her behavior and the curiousity people have about her case, she works as a servant in the prison governor's house.

We do however learn he acts as warden of his own prison that houses racist, bigoted officers, some of whom are drunk and known throughout town for savagely beating minorities.

Helen Mirren stars as the infamous and eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester, who built a house to serve as a prison, an asylum, for hundreds of vengeful ghosts — of people killed by the Winchester rifle.

We first meet the rumpled, hangdog, 70 - ish Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) pranking a delivery guy, pretending that the package being delivered might be a bomb; he disappears into the house and then reappears a moment later as his brother, wearing a disguise (which he apparently keeps handy for just an occasion) and sporting a handcuff on one wrist, as if he's escaped from prison.

Talk Of The Town — Cary Grant stars as a factory whistleblower framed for arson who escapes from prison and hides in the attic of the house Jean Arthur's renting to a stuffy law professor, played by Ronald Coleman.

For several montage sequences where we see various audience reactions to Edtv, Corenblith built such set pieces as a prison cell block, a New York City deli, a bus depot, a fraternity house and a replica of the Oval Office (originally designed for the recent movie comedy, Dave).

For too long, «tough on crime» policies have deliberately targeted our black, brown, and working class communities — ICE is tearing apart families, our youth are being criminalized in school and treated as adults by our overzealous criminal justice system, and the legal system's reliance on cash bail continues to overcrowd our prisons, keeping the House of Correction facility open despite its notoriety for its decrepit conditions.

My father works as a prison guard and an electrician in the cell house up top.

In the world that this manga takes place in, an earthquake has put most of Tokyo underwater and a privatized prison called «Deadman Wonderland» works both as a place to house inmates and as a tourist attraction.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Lavish but not too stuffy, Hotel Amigo is housed in a 16th century building that once served as a prison.

Take for instance, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, housed in a former margarine factory, or the Sammlung Boros Collection, a former bomb shelter, which has also spent time as a prison, storehouse and fetish club.

Originally a watchtower overlooking Lisbon, until as recently as 2010 it also housed a prison.

Maritime Museum of Ushuaia Housed in the former Prison of Ushuaia with collections ranging from naval models, the history of Antarctic exploration and other various aspects such as austral wildlife, gold prospecting, the primitive inhabitants, as well as ongoing expeditions and research.

The Museum of Belize was built in 1857, with lots of character and history, and started as a prison, housing criminals up until 2002.

With sections of the castle dating back to the 12th century, this fortress has served under various guises over the centuries since, including time as a government building, prison, poor house and court.