put (someone) behind bars

To arrest someone and hold him or her in prison; to sentence someone to serve time in prison. I heard that they put Mike's uncle behind bars for robbing a liquor store! The cops put our son behind bars on a charge of drunk driving, so we have to go down to the station to bail him out.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ceallach	KEL-akh	Irish
Richie	RICH-ee	English
Alke	-	Frisian
Khurshid	-	Persian, Urdu, Persian Mythology
Harrietta	her-ee-ET-ə, har-ee-ET-ə	English (Rare)
Iveta	-	Czech, Slovak