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