Quote Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман View Post
...BTW, "to be in the prison" is "сидеть": Преступники сидят в тюрьме.
Остап Бендер says this in movie Twelve Chairs, to wife of Никифор Ляпис-Трубецкой, 'Either you stand or he sits' pretending he is some official, to get the chair.