Complex sentence: He arrived in Liberia in February 1989 and began work with the Salesian community at St. Francis School in Tappita District, briefly finding himself imprisoned after pleading for the release of a student drafted into the army as a child-soldier.
Split into simpler sentences: He arrived in Liberia in February 1989 and began work with the Salesian community at St. Francis School in Tappita District. Later he would be imprisoned for pleading for the release of a youth drafted into the army as a child-soldier.