It is simply not the case that prison conditions are improving.

监狱条件得到改善的情况绝非事实。

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It's sad, of course, that a person may have to spend the rest of his life, or a large part of it in prison for acts that he committed while not in full control of his mind.

当然，一个人因为在无法全权掌控自己思想的情况下所做的行为，而可能要在监狱中度过余生，或在监狱中度过大部分时间，这当然是令人难过的结果。

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This sanitized account of his life does not mention his time in prison.

这份生平记述对他的不光彩之处略而不表，没有提及他在监狱的日子。

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They were disappointed with decisions like sending more troops to Afghanistan and not closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Some had been put in prison for not paying their debts.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The court is scheduled to hear cases involving gun rights, free speech and whether juvenile offenders should be sentenced to life in prison without parole in criminal cases that do not involve murder.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The judge recommended his term be served in a halfway house, not prison.

BBC: Palin e-mail hacker sentenced to a year in custody

Whether or not prison works as a crime-fighting tool, how much further down the road of ever more frequent imprisonment can America go?

ECONOMIST: Prisoners

Their sentences will be rehabilitation programmes, not prison.

ECONOMIST: The home secretary is more liberal than he sounds