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Vocabulary: prison sentences - English lesson

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: 

PLACES and CONDITIONS: 

- (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 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: 

- 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

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 security winggaolreformatoryI don't know where he’ll have no contacts with others.



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



3. When the inmate called for help, the governorwarderprisonerI don't know finally came in and told him to stop it!



4. The prison sentencecellmutinyI don't know 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 with a finewith a suspended sentencebehind barsI don't know.



6. In the United States, murderers can still be condemned to deathovercrowdingserving sentencesI don't know in twenty-six States out of fifty.



7. During the First World War, a deserter was sure to be shot by a top-security wingwarderfiring squadI don't know.



8. During the test, several students were on solitary confinementpunished for cheatingserving a sentenceI don't know…



9. In France, life imprisonmentcapital punishmentcorporal punishmentI don't know was abolished in 1981.



10. As it was the young criminal’s first offence, he was given a suspended sentencecorporal punishmentlife imprisonmentI don't know. Let’s hope it will teach him a lesson…