put someone away
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“You don’t know the intimacies, and those intimate details are the details you need to put someone away for life.”
From Fox News
Still, he expressed satisfaction with Monday’s ruling because it reduced reliance on mandatory sentencing and gave discretion back to judges who may still decide to put someone away for life.
From New York Times
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