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2010 West Memphis police shootings

Kane served three days in jail near Carrizozo, New Mexico for driving without a license and concealing his identity.

Abraham Hirschfeld

On at least three occasions, Hirschfeld called into The Howard Stern Show to discuss his conviction and jail time.

Agustín Caloca Cortés

After helping the students escape, he was taken prisoner and transferred to a jail in Colotlán where he was reunited with Father Magallanes Jara.

Allegan, Michigan

Easter/Passover Weekend 1967, some scenes from the movie Ciao! Manhattan were filmed at the old Allegan County Jail, now the Allegan County Jail Museum.

Allonsanfàn

Against the backdrop of the Bourbon Restoration, Lombard aristocrat Fulvio Imbriani, a former political extremist who once served under Napoleon, is finally released from an Austrian jail, after a lengthy sentence for his part in the secret Sublime Brotherhood.

Banned from Argo

The "Doctor" (Leonard "Bones" McCoy) is arrested for "inciting whores to riot", and has to be transported out of jail, "intact except for hickies and six kinds of VD".

Bastards of the Party

During a term in jail, Cle Sloan picked up a book titled, City of Quartz by Mike Davis.

Beauregard Parish Courthouse

The courthouse and jail are also part of the Historic Downtown district of DeRidder that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Bill Amerson

In November 1982, after Holmes was released from the LA County Jail (after having been fully acquitted of the 1981 quadruple murder of the Wonderland Gang), Amerson and Holmes formed a business called Penguin Productions, which was involved in adult film production.

Bun B

When Bun B's UGK partner, the late Chad "Pimp C" Butler, entered a jail sentence on an aggravated gun assault charge in 2002, Bun B made guest appearances on numerous albums by other rappers and released a 2005 mixtape titled Legends.

Censorship in Sweden

Ture Nerman was sentenced to three months in jail in the winter of 1939 for an anti-Hitler column in his Trots allt! (In spite of it all).

Charles Street Jail

The commanding officer of the latter U-boat, who died in the jail, was the brother of Operation Paperclip rocket scientist Ernst Steinhoff.

Cop Block

In July 2010, Pete Eyre and Adam "Ademo Freeman" Mueller, members of the organization were arrested for videotaping officials at the Franklin County, Massachusetts jail.

Corleonesi

On the one hand there were the hardliners in jail – led by Totò Riina and Leoluca Bagarella – and on the other the more moderate, known as the "Palermitani" – led by Bernardo Provenzano and Antonino Giuffrè, Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Matteo Messina Denaro.

Empress of Blandings

"Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", wherein we first meet the noble beast, tells of how she misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her master, with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog-calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first Silver Medal.

Father Is a Bachelor

When wealthy, unloved Jeffrey Gilland Sr. (Frederic Tozere) orders Johnny to keep his disreputable children away from his son Jeffrey Jr. (Tommy Ivo), Johnny scuffles with him and gets thrown in jail.

Giovanni Consorte

On October 25, 2006 he was sentenced to six months in jail for insider trading, together with Ivano Sacchetti and Emilio Gnutti.

Harrison County, Mississippi

Harrison County has received coverage on CNN and other media regarding the beatings of inmates, and the death of inmate Jessie Lee Williams Jr., who died while in custody on Feb. 4, 2006, which have occurred in the Harrison County Jail in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Hog calling

In "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", by P.G. Wodehouse the Empress of Blandings misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her owner (Lord Emsworth), with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first silver medal.

Igor Olenicoff

Lawyers for billionaire H. Ty Warner, the creator of Beanie Babies, successfully used a defense based on the government's treatment of Olenicoff to spare Warner from a jail sentence.

J. R. Smith

On July 31, 2009, the Denver Post reported that Smith was released from jail after serving 24 days of his sentence.

Jack Mapanje

PEN's president, US novelist Larry McMurtry, stated that "the point of the award is to generate enough heat so Mapanje gets out of jail".

Jail Busters

Jail Busters is a 1955 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

José de los Santos Berreyesa

When his father traveled up to see how his three sons were being treated in jail, the father and two cousins, twin sons of Francisco de Haro, were shot and killed in San Rafael by a group of three men, including Kit Carson, assigned the task by Frémont.

Joseph Graves Olney

As the situation escalated, Scott Cooley and John Ringo were arrested and incarcerated in the Lampasas County jail.

Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide

In January 2001, another leader of American ARF, Mourad Topalian, was sentenced to 37 months of jail for illegal storing of war weapons and explosives, in the benefice of JCAG.

Kanu Godwin Agabi

In June 2007 Kanu represented the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in a suit launched by General Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), seeking to jail the INEC Chairman Professor Maurice Iwu for refusing to allow Buhari's lawyers access to electoral materials.

Kate Otten

She has designed community libraries, the waterfront development at Tzaneen, an art therapy centre in Soweto and the museum exhibition space at the former Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill which received a commendation from the South African Institute of Architects.

King County Courthouse

An enclosed skybridge connects the courthouse to the King County Jail, and a pedestrian tunnel connects it to the King County Administration Building.

Lavr Kornilov

After the alleged coup collapsed as his troops disintegrated, Kornilov and his fellow conspirators were placed under arrest in the Bikhov jail.

Lord Infamous

In 2006 following jail time which lead to a breach of contract with Sony, Lord Infamous was forced to end work with Three 6 Mafia, leaving the group on good terms.

Main and Military Plazas Historic District

Holiday Inn Express Riverwalk Area, a contributing structure, formerly the Old Bexar County Jail

Malik Muhammad Arif

During the Marshal's Law of military dictator Zia ul Haq, he raised his voice for freedom of his fellows who were imprisoned & sentenced for jail & lashes.

Malika Oufkir

Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi (2001), Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, Miramax Books (ISBN 0-7868-6861-9)

Mehamn

They received very light sentences in jail and then the following autumn, general elections were held, and the Labour Party, which had fought for the protection of the whales, entered parliament for the first time with four MPs.

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

The two catch the miscreant and take him to jail, while Sampson says that the thief better be singing "Silent Night".

Michael Dawida

The $46 million spent on the renovation project was nearly 23 times the original cost of both of the Richardsonian Romanesque masterpieces, the jail and county courthouse.

Morris Pashman

In the 1978 "Dr. X" murder trial of Mario Jascalevich, Judge Theodore Trautwein had ordered that reporter M. A. Farber of The New York Times be sent to jail for refusing to turn over notes to the defense attorney.

Nauvoo Expositor

On June 27, while awaiting trial, a mob attacked the jail and killed both Joseph and Hyrum Smith and wounded John Taylor.

Ossip Gabrilowitsch

Through the intervention of the nuncio to Bavaria, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), Gabrilowitsch was freed from jail, and then he headed to Zürich and the United States.

Peter Michael Goetz

Additional New York City theatre credits include Beyond Therapy, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Government Inspector, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Macbeth, and the off-Broadway productions The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs and Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential.

Pulin Behari Das

In 1908 he was arrested along with Bhupesh Chandra Nag, Shyam Sundar Chakravarti, Krishna Kumar Mitra, Subodh Mallick and Ashwini Dutta and interred in Montgomery jail.

Ramadan

In Kuwait, according to law number 44 of 1968 the penalty is a fine of no more than 100 Kuwaiti dinars, or jail for no more than one month, or both penalties, for those seen eating, drinking or smoking during Ramadan daytime.

Rocksteady

The rude boy phenomenon had existed in the ska period, but was expressed more obviously during the rocksteady era in songs such as "Rude Boy Gone A Jail" by The Clarendonians; '"No Good Rudie" by Justin Hinds & the Dominoes; and "Don't Be A Rude Boy" by The Rulers. Crying was a theme in some rocksteady songs, such as Alton and the Flames' "Cry Tough", which urged Jamaicans in the ghettos to stay tough through the hard times.

Santa Rita Jail

Major portions of Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full (1998) take place at Santa Rita Jail, but the facility depicted in the novel was the pre-1989 jail which used World War II-era barrack-style buildings.

SCOPE Project

Dr. King announced the SCOPE project in a speech at UCLA on April 27, 1965 and his visit resulted in the recruitment of twenty UCLA students, including the late Joel Siegel, who later became the film critic for Good Morning America and Rick Tuttle, who worked with Rev. Hosea Williams and Rev. Andrew Young and spent two months in a Savannah jail as a result of his Movement activities before he was released.

Sue Ellen Ewing

Facing the possibility of jail and the overall humiliation and disgrace, she pours herself a glass of wine (in the original series, her favorite tipple was Vodka).

Suffolk County Jail

Charles Street Jail, also known as the Suffolk County Jail, an 1851 era church in Boston

The Audreys

"Small Things" was used as soundtrack music in the November 2010 episode of Neighbours, when Steph Scully was sentenced to 6 years in jail for the death of Ringo Brown.

Treva Throneberry

He was convicted in Clark County, Washington of "having sex with a minor" and sentenced to 50 days in jail.


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