behind bars
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behind bars
(figuratively, idiomatic) In jail, in prison.
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A 29-year-old Chiweshe man has 12 years behind bars after raping and bribing a 15-year-old girl with biscuits.
A 66-year-old sex offender is behind bars after sending abusive texts and messages to a police officer.
A judge ordered Jennifer Mustachia to serve life behind bars without the possibility of parole for helping kill a disabled man inside his east valley home in 2015.
After getting fired up by a tweet by Donald Trump, Chrissy Teigen decided to take action on behalf of those protesters behind bars.
A man who breached a permanent ban from B.C.'s securities regulator by suckering friends out of their money has been given probation instead of a jail sentence because of the threat of COVID-19 behind bars.
Although the medium-security facility is at the epicenter of Minnesota's first outbreak behind bars, officials say the man had not reported experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and was not known to have had direct contact with anyone infected.