The prospect of spending decades in an American jail was unappealing.

The age grouping of the average prisoner in American jails is 16 to 25 years old.

The same is true of some suspects in American jails.

Honey buns are often a popular food item for American jails and prisons.

They read in their newspapers about American jails overflowing with prisoners - mostly black.

Compared to this, he suspected even the most primitive of American jails looked modern.

It is not his fault you landed yourself in an American jail.

Everyone knows it will be ineffective, but I guess just another way to force more people into American jails.

Yet American jails are well populated with men arrested for the crime of homosexuality.

I'd have felt more comfortable walking into a South American jail.