prison
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
any place of confinement or involuntary restraint.
Origin of prison
1Other words from prison
- pris·on·like, adjective
- post·pris·on, adjective
Words that may be confused with prison
- jail, prison
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How to use prison in a sentence
He told me that all he could see was the banner carried at the front of the group which read, “No Cops No Prisons.”
We see the effects of a state that spends more money per capita on prisons than it does on education.
For comparison, inmates at high-security federal prisons cost about $34,000 per year on average, as of 2012.
And from their power structure within the prisons they manipulate and control events on the streets.
The Mexican Mafia Is the Daddy of All Street Gangs | Seth Ferranti | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was through this work that Bensoussan discovered there was a demand for ministers to perform weddings at jails and prisons.
The rioters liberated the prisoners confined in the prisons, and totally destroyed Newgate by fire.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellIn the nine prisons of Paris these horrors continued unabated till they were emptied of their victims.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe public, once vividly conscious of what prison life is and must be, would not be willing to maintain prisons.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanMasters of prisons,” he rejoined, “who keep shop, have a natural horror of an abstemious captive.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio PellicoIndeed, I found myself much more solitary than I had been in the Milanese prisons.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio Pellico
British Dictionary definitions for prison
/ (ˈprɪzən) /
a public building used to house convicted criminals and accused persons remanded in custody and awaiting trial: See also jail, penitentiary, reformatory
any place of confinement or seeming confinement
Origin of prison
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