Imagine, then, the surprise and delight when, in March, a former oil minister was put behind bars.
Though Garrido was put behind bars for what he did, Hall said that night changed her life forever.
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But an alleged deal, brokered by the Saudis, saved him and other family members from being put behind bars.
The film deals with the parents of an eight-year-old boy who inadvertently strays onto the Indian side of the border and is put behind bars.
If Bosnia's Croats, Muslims and Serbs see their wickedest foes put behind bars, they may find it that bit easier to start working together again.
In 1931, mobster Al Capone was finally put behind bars because he was c onvicted of multiple tax-evasion charges, and the IRS is taking a similar approach with medical marijuana today.
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No bad guys were put behind bars.
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In Mexico, though, escaped convicts are not penalised further - they are simply put back behind bars.
In fact, most observers say, it was her contempt for Mr Yanukovich and his men that put her behind bars.
Newspaper clipping El Norte 9" Music Liz Drew 7" COMM: The police had got their man, and put him behind bars.
As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ms. White significantly expanded federal laws to go after terrorists and took risks to put terrorists behind bars.
In 1994, I wrote the Violence Against Women Act, which established several critical new protections: first, it provides law enforcement with new tools to prosecute domestic violence crimes and put offenders behind bars.
Even when tracking down common criminals, investigating magistrates, working with the police, have far-reaching powers to tap telephones, order searches, look into bank accounts and put suspects behind bars without a charge in France, for up to four years.
But he was re-arrested on an order from the president that he be put back "behind bars".
Since then, the order from hardline President Alvaro Uribe has been to find something to put him back behind bars.
But we could certainly work toward policies that would put fewer people behind bars and save those prison beds for actual criminals.
At the moment, WikiLeaks is releasing classified documents, Swedish prosecutors are trying to put Julian Assange behind bars, and State Department officials are apologizing for embarrassing disclosures.
Personal, visual stories created with our partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo helped put a warlord behind bars and caused a decline in the mobilization of children as soldiers in armed conflict.
That misguided policy has put millions of people behind bars, cost billions, encouraged crime and spread corruption while failing completely to reduce drug abuse.
As the jury returned its guilty verdict, it marked the end of a traumatic couple of years for Mrs Esack's family, who could not persuade her to do whatever it took to put her violent former husband behind bars.
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"We all have to be vigilant, more now than ever before, in detecting theft and potential theft and recognizing documents that have been stolen, " Ferriero said in opening remarks in which he introduced an investigator in the Landau case and a lawyer who put Landau and his assistant behind bars.
If there's one thing Ferguson can rely on, it's that criminals are never in short supply and there aren't enough bars to put them behind.
Paolo later got his revenge when he helped prosecutors put his 80-year-old father behind bars for tax evasion.
The relationship between Gilman and Martoma was facilitated by an expert network firm, an industry that has been at the heart of a number of insider trading cases brought by Preet Bharara in recent years, cases that have put the likes of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam behind bars.
However, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines can put a first-time, non-violent offender behind bars for the remainder of their life.
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We've convicted over 7, 400 drug offenders and put them, as well as leaders of organized crime, behind bars in record numbers.
After elections in September that few considered free or fair, the government has branded several organisations as terrorist and has put the opposition leader, Mario Masuku of the People's United Democratic Movement (Pudemo), behind bars.
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