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    Vocabulary: prison sentences


    As citizens must be protected and offenders repressed, since the dawn of time,

     

    the different societies have developed and implemented  a number of measures,

    of varied workers, and more or less strict places of seclusion. They all deprive people

    of their liberty, or restrict it...  

     

                         

     

    THE PEOPLE INVOLVED: 

     A prisoner 

     A prison officer/ a warder (GB)/ A prison guard (US)                                                     

     The governor (GB)/ the warden (US)                
     The prison authorities 

     

                                         

     

    PLACES and CONDITIONS: 

     A prison/ a jail

     a gaol (GB)/ a penitentiary (US)                                                                                     

     A cell 
     A top-security wing
     A mutiny
     Overcrowding

     

                                              

     

    - (GB) a detention centre/ an approved school /// (US)a reform school/ a reformatory

    - To put in prison/ to imprison/ to jail/ to gaol

                                                

    SENTENCES: 

     To go to prison 
     imprisonment 
     Behind bars 
     A conviction 
     A sentence 
     A suspended sentence                                                                                            
     To sentence sb for murder
     A fine/ to fine sb
     To serve a sentence                                            

     

                                               

    - To sentence sb to three years imprisonment/ to pass a three year sentence on sb/ 

     To send sb to prison for three years

    - To sentence somebody in his absence

     

    DIFFERENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT: 

                                                    

     Life imprisonment 

     Imprisonment  for life 

     Solitary confinement 
     On parole
     An alternative sentence                               
     A suspended sentence 
     To punish somebody for doing something                                                                       
     Corporal punishment 
     To deport/ deportation 

     

                                                           

     

    - To get/ give somebody/ a life sentence

    - To get a reduction in one's sentence/ to get one's sentence cut

    - To put somebody under house arrest

     

    Some punishments have been abolished or are seldom used:

                                                 

               To be hanged                                                                               The electric chair

     Capital punishment 
     The death penalty

     To condemn somebody to death/ To sentence somebody to death                                    

     To execute somebody/ To put somebody to death 

     An execution/ the executioner                              
     To be hanged 
     The gallows 
     To behead somebody 
     The scaffold 
     The electric chair 
     A firing squad 

     

    The solution to escape all this is simply to abide by the law! (to be law-abiding)! 

    Let's do that!  

     



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    1. After his preceding escapes from successive penitentiaries, the prisoner will be kept in a where he’ll have no contacts with others.



    2. As he was condemned to a twenty-year , Pablo was certain he wouldn’t die a free man.



    3. When the inmate called for help, the finally came in and told him to stop it!



    4. The prison was tiny indeed… Besides the bunk-beds, there were very small cupboards to keep the prisoners’ belongings…



    5. After all that he had done, the man understood he would spend the rest of his life .



    6. In the United States, murderers can still be in twenty-six States out of fifty.



    7. During the First World War, a deserter was sure to be shot by a .



    8. During the test, several students were



    9. In France, was abolished in 1981.



    10. As it was the young criminal’s first offence, he was given a . Let’s hope it will teach him a lesson…



     

          








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