Sentences with phrase «many old prisons»

Some old prisons have seen new life as hotels and «haunted houses.»
Cannon ceremony — I normally try to keep it pretty positive around here, but I definitely wouldn't recommend this unless you want to explore the old prison as well.
Zombies are now holding down jobs in old prisons during Halloween, and the Black Zombie «Deaths Matter» movement is also gaining momentum.
He starts nosing around trying to find a way out, when two old prison buddies show up.
Despite protestations from his wife and the ever - present suspense generated by his interactions with the Germans and Nazi sympathizers (particularly from the weaselly Bortnik, an old prison buddy turned Nazi thug), Poldek, a historical antihero, finds his moral compass pointing toward some semblance of a conscience.
A reel of deleted scenes (8:27) gives us an extended, alternate version of the crude CG - animated prologue, another appearance by Jack's uncle (Christopher Fairbank), and more of Jack's solo journeying in the Giants» land, across a stone bridge and in an old prison.
Peter Lord and Nick Park of Aardman Studios bring their trademark dry British wit and stunningly realistic models to life again, in a tribute to those old prison break movies (for instance, the 17 on the coop refers to Stalag 17).
We then cross one main road to take us through Hillbrow — still an area riddled with crime and gang warfare, a reminder, says our guide Lucky, of the bad old days — and on to the impressive Constitutional Court with its gestures both to the past — some of the bricks are from the old prison — and to the future with its lettering in 11 languages and its fabulous collection of African art.
From a look at the records available in the old prison, Hale Paahao («stuck - in - irons house»), built by King Kamehameha III to detain unruly sailors who refused to return to their ships by sundown, it's easy to see which group prevailed more often than not.
Once we got to the Yuma Territorial Prison, the rain let up and we were greeted with huge puddles that were perfect for reflections and ominous clouds in the background that made for an eerie scene in this unique, old prison.
In 1998, the Government handed the old prison to NICH and for the next two -LSB-...]
Like the KwaMuhle Museum, the Inanda Heritage Route including Mahatma Gandhi's Phoenix Settlement, Dr John Dube's Ohlange Institute, and the Luthuli Museum in Groutville, Pietermaritzburg's train station, the Old Prison, the Edendala and Mbali routes, the Alan Paton Centre, and the Nelson Mandela Capture site (Howick).
In Con Dao or Phu Quoc, you can visit the old prisons used during the Vietnam War.
The sound of the foghorn is a big audio clue to the player that they are traveling beneath Lake Toluca before they enter the old prison.
He has contributed as artist and designer for permanent exhibitions at the Workers» Museum in Newtown, the old prisons at Constitution Hill, and Freedom Park in Pretoria, and he is currently completing the installation of a permanent exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei «s new exhibition @Large sees the former political prisoner come full circle by presenting a body of work based on the theme of political imprisonment on the site of one of this country's oldest prison facilities, Alcatraz.
The current exhibition presents early works from the 1980s, including «A woman and her doctor» (1980/81), «Doorpusher» (1984), «The Smoker» (1986), «The Thinker», (1986) and «The old prison» (1987).
Then there are shoes from Worn Again, made from old prison blankets.
It reminds me of the old prison uniforms.

Not exact matches

A father and son view the electric chair nicknamed «Old Sparky» on display at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas 07 December 2002.
But since the 1990s, as the U.S. prison population exploded, new, bigger prisons were built — and states looked for a way to repurpose older ones.
Old Newgate Prison started as a copper mine in 1705.
The 73 - year - old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the «largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,» spending more than a decade in prison.
The fugitive drug lord knows «he's old and he's not in good health and he will die in prison if he gets caught,» said Vigil, who worked undercover in both Mexico and Colombia.
Williams, a 39 - year - old Kansas City man whose long criminal record includes drug and domestic violence charges, is serving nearly eight years in federal prison for unlawfully transporting a firearm in a stolen vehicle.
There's an old adage among short - sellers: «He that sells what isn't his» n, must buy it back or go to prison
NEW YORK (AP)-- Federal prosecutors says former Congressman Anthony Weiner should go to prison for about two years for engaging in sexting with a 15 - year - old girl.
Croatian police said that a 19 - year - old Croat, whom they described as the owner of webstresser.org, was detained on charges of «serious criminal acts against computer systems, programs and data» that carry a possible sentence of one to eight years in prison.
The former New York congressman is serving a nearly two - year federal prison sentence following his conviction on charges that stemmed from sexting with a 15 - year - old girl.
Bush told FOX News Channel's Brian Kilmeade on Thursday «We shouldn't be closing down Guantanamo,» when asked about President Barack Obama's effort to close down the prison that was established by Bush's older, brother former President George W. Bush.
Take, for example, 48 - year - old Pongsak Sriboonpeng, who was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison for insulting Thai monarchy on Facebook.
Since Nov. 10, the 52 - year - old mother of two has been in a Mexican prison accused with three others of plotting to shepherd Saadi Gadhafi, his wife, and his two children from Libya to a safe house in Mexico using forged documents.
Su Bin, a 51 - year - old Chinese businessman, was charged with a prison term of 46 months after pleading guilty to trying to illegally acquire secrets from the United States military.
Canada Review investigating harassment allegations against Newfoundland politician Eddie Joyce, Globe and Mail Ottawa's «gay purge» settlement expanded to include all who suffered as early as 1955, Toronto Star An 83 - year - old convicted killer who walked away from a B.C. prison is back in custody, National Post
A 49 - year - old Wilton man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Tuesday for using hedge - fund money for his own personal use as part of a $ 6 million - plus Ponzi scheme.
Ross Ulbricht, the 31 - year - old convicted mastermind behind deep web market Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison today.
Those are the words I spoke as a trial judge in 1997 when I sentenced Bobby Bostic to a total of 241 years in prison for his role in two armed robberies he committed when he was just 16 years old.
Older frat men receive childlike compassion, teaching, and parental care away from home, while younger on average gang boys receive shame, charges as adults, and prisons away from home.
Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.
Judge Baugh sentenced Rambold to 30 days in prison, saying that the girl, Cherice Moralzez, was «as much in control of the situation» as her teacher was and that she was «older than her chronological age,» whatever that even means.
If you chose to live your life by the writings of the Old Testament, none of us will stop you (well, unless you start with that stoning bit, that might land you in prison).
(CNN)- A 14 - year - old Pakistani girl who had faced life in prison for allegedly burning the Quran will have her case heard in juvenile court, the girl's lawyer told CNN.
She is being held shackled in prison in Khartoum with her 20 - month - old son Martin.
I've seen 18 year old black kids sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling cocaine to adult buyers; these predatory priests should be looking an serious issues of prison time · (measured in decades) while their purple - robed protectors deserved to be confined with them.
He placed little or no value on the Old Testament --»... the faith of the Old Testament is not a religion of salvation» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, p. 112).
That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.
The fifteen - year - old orphan was born in prison.
Sixty - year - old white men in prison who've never harmed anybody, would never touch a child.»
Even though, by worldly standards, John's life and ministry ended in failure, he died at about 30 years old, alone, in prison, God's viewpoint is different.
Sheol / Hades was the temporary holding place or prison for the souls of those who died (went to sleep) within the Old Covenant dispensation.
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