Every week, Bristol Live reports from the city's courts.
This reporting forms an important part of the UK's open justice system, that justice can be seen to be done.
Some of the key benefits of open justice include ensuring public confidence and respect in democracy and the administration of justice, as well as deterring people from committing crimes and thereby the details of those crimes becoming public knowledge.
Here are the criminals who have been jailed from Monday, March 16, to Friday, March 20
Sam Bullus, Lee Meredith and Mark Taylor
Being concerned in supply of Class A drugs
Three men have been jailed for their roles in an operation to smuggle illegal drugs into the South West after being caught by police.
Sam Bullus, Lee Meredith and Mark Taylor were part of a set-up which saw drugs driven from Liverpool into Bristol.
Bullus, 22, of Nunney, was jailed for two years and six months after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug (cocaine) and possession of criminal property. The latter charge related to the £10,800 cash found in the van and a further £4,900 found in a safe at his home address.
Lee Meredith, 53, of Bristol, was handed a prison term of five years and four months after admitting to being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs (cocaine and heroin) and Class B drugs (ketamine and amphetamine) on the first day of his trial.
He was also sentenced to possessing criminal property relating the £10,800 of cash.
Miles Meredith, 21, of Bristol, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years and must do 200 hours of unpaid work. He admitted to being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs (cocaine and heroin) and Class B drugs (ketamine and amphetamine).
Mark Taylor, 59, of Liverpool, will serve two years in prison after admitting possessing criminal property in relation to the £10,800 of cash and the £71,970 found hidden in the van. He was convicted of supplying ketamine, a Class B drug following a trial.
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Jacob Riddell - 28 months
Controlling or coercive behaviour and damaging property
A man who admitted a series of assaults on his partner in Thornbury has been jailed.
Jacob Riddell was to face a three-to-four-day trial, starting May 12.
But he appeared at Bristol Crown Court and admitted wrongdoing.
The 26-year-old, whose address was given as Viscount Walk in Bournemouth, pleaded guilty to controlling or coercive behaviour, between June 14 and November 18 last year, towards Aimee Debenham.
The charge encompasses numerous occasions when he pulled her hair, punched her, bit her and strangled her.
It also involves four assaults on her between July 26 and November 17 last year, the court heard.
Riddell also pleaded guilty to damaging Miss Debenham's mobile phone on November 17 last year.
Judge Julian Lambert sent him to prison for 28 months.
Riddell was handed an indefinite restraining order to keep away from the complainant.
He was also ordered to pay a £181 victim surcharge.
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Sabin Sbirciog - 12 months
Two robberies
When a homeless, penniless man came to Bristol and robbed two women.
Sabin Sbirciog was on his way to new accommodation with Julian Trust.
But Bristol Crown Court heard he targeted two women for their mobile phones in the Castle Park area.
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Sbirciog, 30, pleaded guilty to two robberies within 15 minutes on February 5 this year.
Judge Paul Cook jailed him for a year.
He told Sbirciog: "One victim felt what you did was cowardly, and she was targeted because she was a lone female."
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