Criminals Sentence Examples

Criminals have massive disdain for the law.

They weren't normal criminals; this much she was able to tell by their appearances.

With the usual exceptions of criminals, 3 There were three previous constitutions - those of 1 79 2, 1799 and 1850.

They moved out of sight at her blink, and she wondered how criminals were treated on such a planet.

Billie and Willie were journeymen criminals, and both had spent time in jail for a number of offenses, mostly physical in nature.

In that rough age crimes of violence predominated, and the king's justiciars regularly perambulated the land in search of offenders, and decimated every village which refused to surrender fugitive criminals.

A special class was formed in 1880, in which all convicts "not versed in crime," first offenders and comparatively innocent men, are now kept apart from the older and more hardened criminals.

Since then, steps have been taken in the classification of convicts when undergoing sentence with a view to dealing more effectually with habitual criminals.

The "B" division indicates the worst penalties to be inflicted upon habitual criminals.

In Robbery, the cops must stop the criminals from stealing various items scattered across the map.

Max, having lost his wife and his child to drug-addicted criminals, is back working as a detective for the New York Police Department.

The key is to minimize the level of social unrest in the town, fighting criminals and returning cats to their owners.

Criminal activities - Government facilities related to the punishment or legal enforcement of criminals like prisons and police stations.

You'll be able to see criminals on the most wanted list, fugitives, FBI lists of most wanted alleged criminals, and to access other databases.

Criminologists analyze patterns, statistics and behaviors of criminals to predict future behaviors and help prevent future crimes.

Sometimes criminologists analyze police practices to determine what is working well and what needs improvement, while other times criminologists play a role in criminal profiling to help catch serial criminals.

A penologist works directly with criminals within the prison system, helping to work with inmates and prepare them for a successful return to society.

Alcatraz with its isolation, treacherous currents, and chilly waters made it ideal to house these worst of the worst criminals.

Alcatraz's history is full of many toughened and famous criminals and murderers of their time.

The tour includes fun narration about Alcatraz's history and its famous criminals like Al Capone, Clyde Johnson and Robert "The Birdman" Stroud.

Vulture and Electro have joined the lineup, and Spidey can chase criminals with his own motorcycle or ATV.

Named after four Renaissance artists, the super turtles battled all types of evil criminals.

Criminals look for easy, convenient targets.

Overly friendly or obviously fearful individuals tend to attract creative criminals.

Dating911 is written by a former police chief who knows all about how criminals work and how you can stay safe.

Avoid picking a sexy screen name that may attract criminals.

Criminals are using MySpace to steal the identities of unsuspecting members.

Since 1861, Alcatraz served as a prison, housing captured Native Americans, soldiers, violent criminals, and many others.

The State of California built the Agnews Residential Facility in 1885 as a place for treating mentally ill patients, instead of housing them with criminals or in hospitals with sick and dying patients as was the practice prior to 1885.

The ship had 309 people aboard that included three convicted criminals as well as a U.S. Consul General.

However, somewhere along the way, tattoos became a popular method of branding criminals, and so they tended to take on a negative connotation among the populace, even if the tattoo design wasn't related to either crime or punishment.

Many criminals, especially members of the Japanese mob known as the Yakuza obtained full body suit tattoos in secret - a type of tattoo known as horimono.

Many cars sold at repo auctions have previously been owned by drug dealers and other criminals, especially at police auctions.

Additionally, police and federal marshalls often seize vehicles from criminals who commit certain crimes such as contraband (drugs).

This manufacturing moratorium on women's nylons caused what is referred to as the "Stocking Panic" and created a black market for criminals to sell a pair of nylons for a whopping 2000% markup.

All of the criminals who are hunted on the show are real, with actual warrants put out for their arrests.

Of course, they provide the basic presence of safety by patrolling the stores and keeping the shoppers safe from criminals.

Virginia deals with many violent crimes and criminals, including gang members and drug dealers.

But the unlikely team of Ellison and Sandburg become close friends and the bane of criminals throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Despite the criminal element (a significant percentage of Watchers are former criminals) the recidivism rate approaches zero.

In this "before" look at the man that will be Batman, Bruce is abroad, living among criminals in an attempt to prepare himself for the battle against injustice that awaits him in Gotham city.

During his take down of a Gotham City crime boss, though, he uncovers a more heinous threat that even the criminals of the city should fear.

To make matters worse he is surrounded by criminals who were sent away by his father.

Posting pictures of a new sports car or expensive computer also alerts potential criminals of your new purchases.

The liberum veto seems to have been originally devised to cut short interminable debates in times of acute crisis, but it was generally used either by highly placed criminals, anxious to avoid an inquiry into their misdeeds,' or by malcontents, desirous of embarrassing the executive.

The Central Lunatic Asylum at Anchorage, founded in 1869 as a house of refuge for young criminals, became an asylum in 1873.

These more specialized actions are most typically seen in the Divining Rod (q.v.; see also Table-Turning), which indicates the presence of water and is used among the uncivilized to trace criminals.

It has already been observed that paupers and convicted criminals are excluded in many states, illiterates in some states.

The crews consisted of gladiators and condemned criminals; in later times, even of volunteers.

The study of the physical characteristics of criminals is discussed at great length by Lombroso, L` Uomo delinguente (1897); Ferri, L'Omicidio (1895); von Baer, Der Verbrecher (1893); Laurent, Les Habitues des prisons (1890); and Havelock Ellis, The Criminal (1901).

Bothwell and others, his satellites or the queen's, were instantly placarded by name as the criminals.

He pleaded sickness, asked for more time, and demanded that the accused, instead of enjoying special favour, should share the treatment of other suspected criminals.

The grand flight of external steps entering the mansions of the medieval nobility or high officials was considered in itself a mark of jurisdiction, as it is said that sentence was there pronounced against criminals, who were afterwards executed at the foot of the steps--as at the Giant's Stairs of the Doge's palace at Venice.

There were two periods, called the great Adai and little Adai, at which human victims, chiefly prisoners of war or condemned criminals, were immolated.

The acquaintance of many criminals which he made in prison he turned to account after his release by setting up as a receiver of stolen goods.

At a banquet to Lord Spencer he accused the Irish members of having "exhibited a boundless sympathy for criminals and murderers."

In the neighbourhood there is the interesting cromlech of the four Maels, which, if actually erected over the criminals whose name it bears, is proved by the early annals of Ireland to belong to the 7th century A.D.

His representatives are attached to each tribunal, and form the parquet under whose orders the police act in bringing criminals to justice.

The population is about 2000, all males, including some 1400 criminals, and a garrison of 150.

Generally speaking, the classes of persons who claimed the rights of asylum were slaves who had been maltreated by their masters, soldiers defeated and pursued by the enemy, and criminals who feared a trial or who had escaped before sentence was passed.

There were in 1908 two penitentiaries, one at Joliet and one at Chester, and, in addition to the two reformatory institutions for young offenders under the supervision of the Board of Charities, there is a State Reformatory for boys at Pontiac. The indeterminate sentence and parole systems are important features of the treatment of criminals.

Residing in London in Golden Square, Wiseman threw himself into his new duties with many-sided activity, working especially for the reclamation of Catholic criminals and for the restoration of the lapsed poor to the practice of their religion.

Hostile critics were not wanting; many voices were raised in protest against the ultra-humanitarianism which sought to make gaols too comfortable and tended to pamper criminals.

Sir George Grey sought to deal with the difficulty as a whole, and to provide for all classes of criminals, the most heinous deserving severe correction and the minor offenders in the earliest stages of misconduct.

This plan had originated with Captain Maconochie, at one time superintendent in Norfolk Island, who had recommended that the punishment inflicted upon criminals should be measured, not by time, but by the amount of labour actually performed.

Thus in1877-1878efforts were made to minimize contamination by segregating the worst criminals and restricting conversation at exercise.

It has been said by a trustworthy authority,' "We are convinced also that severe labour on public works is most beneficial in teaching criminals habits of industry and training them to such employments as digging, road-making and brick-making - work of a kind which cannot be carried on in separate confinement."

More especially the police association, organized for the keeping of the peace and the presentation of criminals - the frankpledge groups were formed of all " worthy of were and wite," villeins as well as freemen.

Ships deserted by their sailors crowded the bay at San Francisco - there were 500 of them in July 1850; soldiers deserted wholesale, churches were emptied, town councils ceased to sit, merchants, clerks, lawyers and judges and criminals, everybody, flocked to the foothills.

By Vallemont, who wrote towards the end of the 17th century, the divining-rod of hazel, or "baguette divinatoire," is described as instrumental in the pursuit of criminals.

Letters exist written by Colbert to the judges requiring them to sentence to the oar as many criminals as possible, including all those who had been condemned to death; and the convict once chained to the bench, the expiration of his sentence was seldom allowed to bring him release.

The term is also used generally of any refuge for criminals.

There is, first of all, the service of the Surete-- in other words, of public safety - the detective department, employed entirely in the pursuit and capture of criminals; next comes the police, now amalgamated with the Surete, that watches over the morals of the capital and possesses arbitrary powers under the existing laws of France; then there is the brigade de garnis, the police charged with the supervision of all lodging-houses, from the commonest "sleep-sellers'" shop, as it is called, to the grandest hotels.

In 1614 ten criminals from London were landed on the island to form a settlement and supply fresh provisions to passing ships.

As early as 1657 criminals were banished to the island by the Dutch authorities at Cape Town; it has also served as the place of detention of several noted Kaffir chiefs.

As early as 1505 one of Almeida's ships contained a crew of rustics unable to distinguish between port and starboard; soon afterwards it became necessary to recruit convicts and slaves, and in 1538 a royal pardon was granted to all prisoners who would serve in India, except criminals under sentence for treason and canonical offences.

Such are Pioneer Hall, the home of the Society of California Pioneers (1850), endowed by James Lick; Portsmouth Square, where the flag of the United States was raised on the 8th of July 1846, and where the Committee of Vigilance executed criminals in 1851 and 1856; Union Square, a fashionable shopping centre, decorated with a column raised in honour of the achievements of the United States Navy in the Spanish-American War of 1898;; also the United States Branch Mint, associated with memories of the early mining days (the present mint dates only from 1874).

By these committees criminals were summarily tried, convicted and punished; suspicious characters were deported or intimidated.

Galton was the author of memoirs on various anthropometric subjects; he originated the process of composite portraiture, and paid much attention to finger-prints and their employment for the identification of criminals, his publications on this subject including Finger Prints (1892), Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints (1893) and Finger Print Directories (1895).

The state supports the following charitable and correctional institutions all under the inspection of a State Department of Charities and Correction (1905); hospitals for the insane at Trenton and Morris Plains; a training-school for feeble-minded children (partly supported by the state) and a home for feeble-minded women at Vineland; a sanatorium for tuberculous diseases at Glen Gardner; a village for epileptics, with a farm of 700 acres, near Skillman, Somerset county; a state home (reform school) for boys near Jamesburg, Middlesex county, and for girls in Ewing township, near Trenton; a state reformatory for criminals sixteen to thirty years of age, near Rahway; a state prison at Trenton; a home for disabled soldiers at Kearney,' Hudson county; a home for disabled soldiers, sailors and their wives at Vineland"; and a school for the deaf at Trenton.

The governor was chosen by the joint vote of the council and assembly; he was president of the council, with a casting vote; he was chancellor, captain-general and commander-in-chief of the militia; he had three members of the legislature to act as a privy-council; and he, with the council (of which seven formed a quorum), constituted " the Court of Appeals in the last resort in all causes of law, as heretofore," which, in addition, had " the power of granting pardons to criminals, after condemnation, in all cases of treason, felony or other offences."

Altars were always places of refuge, and even criminals and slaves were there safe, violence offered to them being insults to the gods whose suppliants the refugees were for the time being.

It could not say that the Transvaal government had no cause for alarm when British officers had attempted an invasion of its territory, and had been treated rather as heroes than as criminals at home.

Notwithstanding the increase of population, the roll of paupers at the end of the reign, compared with the same roll at the beginning, stood as 2 stands to 3; the criminals as I to 2.

In 1833 he had shared in the foundation of a society for the reclamation of young criminals, in which he continued to be actively interested to the end.

The Kalmucks fled, and Dzungaria became a Chinese province, with a military colonization of Sibos, Solons, Dahurs, Chinese criminals and Moslem Dzungars.

The most conspicuous object in the forum of the Bous was the figure of an ox, in bronze, beside which the bodies of criminals were sometimes burnt.

There emperors were acclaimed or insulted; there military triumphs were celebrated; there criminals were executed, and there martyrs were burned at the stake.

The tendency shown to screen the worst criminals is sometimes the result of sympathy, but more often of fear.

They kinda have to be in a crappy part of town, where the criminals are.

A pregnant woman can evoke sympathy, even when they are criminals.

Then an order from the king decreed that criminals should be the world's first aeronauts.

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So, Jesus' being numbered among criminals surely was a fact; but it stands in stark contrast to his personal comportment.

Even convicted criminals often escaped the death penalty by securing a Royal Pardon.

The tracking of IP addresses helps deter criminals from using your store to place charges on stolen cards.

Second, we have to strengthen the forces of law and order, to reduce the fear of crime and to punish criminals effectively.

Governments are creating large DNA databases of suspects, if not the entire population of a nation, so as to better apprehend criminals.

The prison service must minimize risk by deporting criminals direct from prison and not via the asylum detention estate.

Every fortnight the entire division is briefed on a list of five ' targets ' - either individuals or teams of suspected criminals.

It was now believed that many criminals were habitual criminals and nothing would change them.

As a civilian working among dangerous criminals, his safety should have been of paramount importance.

Their bodies are ideally suited to hunt cyber criminals.

Our space suddenly became defensible, criminals flourished as opportunities became more lucrative and the laws changed in favor of civil liberties.

Those criminals possessing familiarity with computers now have powerful resources at their disposal.

He'd run around criminals, throw fireballs at them, surround them with wall of flame.

But as criminals become more sophisticated we need to become more ingenious at outwitting them.

Criminals will target fleet vehicles used by businesses in order to steal laptops.

Both criminals were almost lynched by the infuriated crowds.

Ancient times criminals reveal a tattoo seen on the delightful mesquite smoked.

Shouldn't the police be catching " real " criminals rather than wasting time on law-abiding motorists?

Wentworth beats him to the draw and leaves on his forehead the seal of The Spider, an already notorious killer of criminals.

Clip cited reports of criminals using hand-helds to steal anti-theft car passcodes that are transmitted by infrared radio waves over short distances.

These centers are prisons in all but name, with detainees having fewer legal rights than criminals arrested on charges of rape and murder.

The latter show up as red dots on your radar, and usually involve scuffles between criminals and the public or the police.

The encryption codes being used by criminals are incredibly sophisticated and, so the FBI claim, impossible to crack.

Most children with marked temper tantrums will not grow up to be violent criminals.

You have thugs, drug addicts, violent criminals, idiots, feral children.

A variation of distraction burglary involves criminals posing as reputable tradespeople who offer to undertake repair work on a person's property.

The stupid law banning electronic games has been found unconstitutional by the court that was judging the " criminals " .

The result was the reduction of punishment both in quantity and in severity, the improvement of the prison system, and the first attempts to study the psychology of crime and to distinguish between classes of criminals with a view to their improvement (see Crime; Prison; Children'S Courts; Juvenile Offenders).

It was in 1788, eighteen years after Captain Cook explored the east coast, that Port Jackson was founded as a penal station for criminals from England; and the settlement retained that character, more or less, during the subsequent fifty years, transportation being virtually suspended in 1839.

A commission was given him as adjutant-general in the French army, which he hoped might protect him from the penalty of treason in the event of capture by the English; though he himself claimed the authorship of a proclamation said to have been issued by the United Irishmen, enjoining that all Irishmen taken with arms in their hands in the British service should be instantly shot; and he supported a project for landing a thousand criminals in England, who were to be commissioned to burn Bristol and commit any other atrocity in their power.

This led further to the medicinal use of fragments of the mummies themselves; and, finally, the starting-point was lost sight of, so that the dried or prepared flesh of criminals became one of the standard forms of mummy in the pharmacopoeia.

Indiana has an habitualcriminal law, and a law providing for the sterilization of mental degenerates, confirmed criminals, and rapists.

Among the state charitable and reformatory institutions are state hospitals for the insane at Topeka and Osawatomie and a hospital for epileptics at Parsons; industrial reform schools for girls at Beloit, for boys at Topeka, and for criminals under twenty-five at Hutchinson; a penitentiary at Lansing; a soldiers' orphans' home at Atchison and a soldiers' home at Dodge City; and schools for feeble-minded youth at Winfield, for the deaf at Olathe, and for the blind at Kansas City.

In my opinion they are all criminals.

He felt this in the looks of the soldiers who, marching in regular ranks briskly and gaily, were escorting him and the other criminals; he felt it in the looks of an important French official in a carriage and pair driven by a soldier, whom they met on the way.

Then two pairs of Frenchmen approached the criminals and at the officer's command took the two convicts who stood first in the row.

They all plainly and certainly knew that they were criminals who must hide the traces of their guilt as quickly as possible.

Why was Napoleon III a criminal when he was taken prisoner at Boulogne, and why, later on, were those criminals whom he arrested?

Prevention of trespass is the responsibility of the landowner, not the Council or Police Are n't all Gypsies/Travellers just roving criminals?

Ruthless in the pursuit of criminals, he was very mild about their punishment.

Sussex Police has successfully obtained forfeiture orders for cash seized from suspected criminals.

Criminals who swindle elderly people 's savings could be put to work on social services.

Because pregnant women can evoke the sympathies of the nation, even when they are criminals.

The reality is that most burglaries are carried out by opportunistic thieves rather than ' professional ' criminals.

A variation of distraction burglary involves criminals posing as reputable tradespeople who offer to undertake repair work on a person 's property.

Of course most Japanese martial artists are not war criminals and most Chinese martial artists are not triad members.

The stupid law banning electronic games has been found unconstitutional by the court that was judging the " criminals ".

It may also create incentives for criminals to victimize the same company again in the belief that no punishment will be forthcoming.

People flocked to see dissections of executed criminals, whose corpses had been surreptitiously yanked from scaffolds, or wrestled away from waiting families.

I am confident that the police will apprehend the criminals soon.

These detectives were shown with questionable morals, almost borderline criminals, particularly with how they pursued their cases.

Often criminals will try to steal personal data through e-mail rerouted to appear as if it's coming from a reputable site, and nearly 75 percent of all traffic on the Internet is spam.

Many of these emails provide links that redirect you to a mirrored site where criminals take your personal information and use it to steal your financial identity.

This happens if criminals write down the numbers of the cards available for sale at the stores and check the numbers periodically to see if someone has bought the card.

Consumers should beware of criminals who generate fake cards and then sell them as the real thing.

This type of identity theft is the easiest for criminals to accomplish.

Identity theft using the Internet is very popular with criminals.

However, enough people fall for them that it is still a lucrative money making fraud for the criminals.

Unfortunately that link brings you to a fake web site (that looks like the real site) that just collects your information for criminals.

You can check your neighborhood or potential neighborhood out online to see if any criminals live there and what their crimes were.

Over the next few years, he played both criminals and detectives in several crime films, and he got involved in directing.

Police have been trying to catch the criminals who have been causing the damage, but the investigation hasn't led them to any suspects.

Law enforcement, campus security, and campus administrators may review web cams to prevent crimes or catch criminals after students report crimes.

Sometimes just by knowing a camera is near, criminals move on, hoping for lower security.

Fixed codes were easier for criminals to access.

However, the most serious safety risk associated with using MySpace involves criminals using the site to select their next victims.

While some criminals know their way around an alarm system, most do not.

In Raid, the criminals must protect the stash from the police.

As a result, law enforcement agencies feel that prepaid cell phones can be used by criminals and terrorists to avoid detection by the authorities.

Logan was an accountant, not a security guard, yet he barricaded the doors with furniture before bed in case there were criminals wandering the beach.

Thus various parts of criminals, such as the thigh bone of a hanged man, moss grown on a human skull, &c., were used, and even the celebrated Dr Culpeper in the 17th century recommended " the ashes of the head of a coal black cat as a specific for such as have a skin growing over their sight."

An electuary of opium, known as Mithradatum, was invented by Mithradates VI., king of Pontus, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned, and tested the effects of poisons on criminals, and is said to have taken poisons and their antidotes every day in the year.

Within it are many shops and lodgings, and criminals, even murderers, may live there in safety.

The population of the Pernambuco sertao has always been noted for its turbulent, lawless character, due partly to distance from the coast where the bulk of the population is concentrated, partly to difficult means of communication, and partly to the fact that this remote region has long been the refuge of criminals from the coast towns.

The Gauls were accustomed to offer human sacrifices, usually criminals.

It was one of the misfortunes of Palestine that it served as a Botany Bay, to which the criminals of the West were transported for penance.

On the opposite side of the bay is Gallow Hill, the old place of execution of witches and criminals.

He rather preferred to have to do with common criminals like Malinovsky, Radek or Peters.

The government also sought to make criminals of some use to the state, by placing them in a situation where they could do little harm to society, and might help to uphold the dominion of their nation.

A Chinese garrison is stationed here, and copper and iron are wrought in the neighbourhood by exiled Chinese criminals.

The drawbridge of London Bridge having been lowered by treachery, Tyler and his followers crossed the Thames; and being joined by thousands of London apprentices, artisans and criminals, they sacked and burnt John of Gaunt's splendid palace of the Savoy, the official residence of the treasurer, Sir Robert Hales, and the prisons of Newgate and the Fleet.

Lombroso, Antropometria di 400 delinquenti (1872); Roberts, Manual of Anthropometry (1878); Ferri, Studi comparati di antropometria (2 vols., 1881-1882); Lombroso, Rughe anomale speciali ai criminali (1890); Bertillon, Instructions signaletiques pour l'identification anthropometrique (1893); Livi, Anthropometria (Milan, D900); Furst, Indextabellen zum anthropometrischen Gebrauch (Jena, 1902); Report of Home Office Committee on the Best Means of Identifying Habitual Criminals (1893-1894).

There is no doubt that the organs were also examined by opening the bodies of living persons - criminals condemned to death being given over to the anatomists for this purpose.

The employment of " witch doctors " for " smelling out " criminals or abatagati (usually translated " wizards," but meaning evildoers of any kind, such as poisoners), once common in Zululand, as in neighbouring countries, was discouraged by Cetywayo, who established " kraals of refuge " for the reception of persons rescued by him from condemnation as abatagati.

At the last-named place was first organized a "Hallelujah band" of converted criminals and others, who testified in public of their conversion.

His well-beloved Florentines were true sons of the church, but must crown their good deeds by despatching the criminals to Rome.

Antiquaries, however, assert that it probably marks the spot where criminals were in olden times flung into the river.

It was said that persons of high position were concerned in the crime; but although the government offered rewards for the apprehension of the perpetrators, and although General Moyle wrote to the duke of Newcastle that the criminals were "well-known by many of the inhabitants of the town," no one was ever convicted of participation in the murder.

Wylde conjectures that it had become unsuitable for a royal seat by having acquired the status of a sacred city, and thus affording sanctuary to criminals and political offenders within the chief church and a considerable area round it, where there are various houses in which such persons can be lodged and entertained.

The gazer detected unknown criminals, or described remote events, or even professed to foretell things future.

Of such character have been the state-aided emigration from Ireland, and the assisted emigration of paupers, criminals and other persons in the effort to relieve a congested population, or simply from the desire to get rid of undesirable members of the community.

Still the Portuguese remained largely under the control of the Chinese, who had never surrendered their territorial rights and maintained their authority by means of mandarins - these insisting that even European criminals should be placed in their hands.

Of these Maitland of Lethington was consenting to Darnley's murder; the earl of Morton had, at least, guilty foreknowledge; the regent Moray (Mary's natural brother) had "looked through his fingers" at the crime, and for months remained on intimate terms with the criminals.

Since 1895 indeterminate sentences have been imposed on all convicts sentenced to the state prison otherwise than for life or as habitual criminals; i.e.

The state institutions, each governed by a board of trustees, and all under the supervision of the state board of charity, include a state hospital at Tewksbury, for paupers (1866); a state farm at Bridgewater (1887) for paupers and petty criminals; the Lyman school for boys at Westboro, a reformatory for male criminals under fifteen years of age sentenced to imprisonment for terms less than life in connexion with which a very successful farm is maintained for the younger boys at Berlin; an industrial school for girls at Lancaster, also a reformatory school - a third reformatory school for boys was planned in 1909; a state sanatorium at Rutland for tuberculous patients (the first public hospital for such in the United States) and a hospital school at Canton for the care and instruction of crippled and deformed children.

In former times Mexico was overrun with mendicants (pordioseros), vagrants and criminals (rateros), and the " Portales de las Flores " on the east of the Plaza Mayor was a favourite " hunting-ground " for them because of its proximity to the cathedral; but modern conditions have largely reduced this evil.

Formerly Kerbela was a self-governing hierarchy and constituted an inviolable sanctuary for criminals; but in 1843 the Turkish government undertook to deprive the city of some of these liberties and to enforce conscription.

Taygetus into which criminals were cast.

It is defended by forts, and serves as a place of banishment for criminals from Brazil.

But after ten years they may enter the "C" division, earn a special gratuity therein, and enjoy the various privileges accorded to the "B" or habitual criminals' division with the additional advantage that there is no interference with their remission.

You could also choose the names of famous criminals.

Unfortunately, his efforts were all too often thwarted by a sympathetic judge or a system that could not find jail space for the numbers of criminals brought before it.