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state prison

noun

  1. a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.


State prison

noun

  1. (in the US) a prison where persons convicted of serious crimes are confined


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Word History and Origins

Origin of state prison1

First recorded in 1715–25

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Example Sentences

The Empire State had previously downplayed deaths, only reporting those in clinical settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and adult care facilities, and neglecting to report deaths in several other places, including at home or in state prisons.

It needs to be reformatted and California will be reallocating individuals in its state prisons to their last known address in the data.

In western New York, in the mid-1820s, women were placed in an attic above the kitchen of the new state prison.

Once Wilson was shipped to state prison, undoing his conviction involved more complex legal filings.

The lack of accounting made it difficult to accurately gauge what has worked and what has not in the decade since offenders were diverted from state prisons to county jails.

Her destination was Corcoran, California, where Charles Manson is spending his remaining days in a state prison.

Now Garcia is being held on $1 million bond and faces life in state prison if convicted of all three crimes.

He became increasingly angry, drank heavily, and committed a series of assaults that eventually landed him in state prison.

You mean seeing Ava in jail, and, in the last scene, being sent to state prison?

Upon his conviction the 69-year-old was sentenced to between 30 and 60 years in state prison.

As much as two years in State prison could learn me, Larry; though I don't think you need to have asked me.

Still later he was employed in a stone quarry and worked on the building of the state prison.

He said that he would have me arrested for fraud and put in the State Prison.

I asked what was the possible crime for which he was serving a life term in a State prison.

But afterward getting into bad company, he was sentenced to the State Prison, and subsequently hanged.

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