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  1. prisonsnoun

    Plural form of prison.

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  1. prisons

    A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, British English, Australian, South African and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up, hoosegow or remand center, is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, a prison can also be described as a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed. Prisons can also be used as a tool of political repression by authoritarian regimes. Their perceived opponents may be imprisoned for political crimes, often without trial or other legal due process; this use is illegal under most forms of international law governing fair administration of justice. In times of war, prisoners of war or detainees may be detained in military prisons or prisoner of war camps, and large groups of civilians might be imprisoned in internment camps. In American English, the terms prison and jail have separate definitions, though this is not always strictly adhered to in casual speech. A prison or penitentiary holds people for longer periods of time, such as many years, and is operated by a state or federal government. A jail holds people for shorter periods of time (e.g. for shorter sentences or pre-trial detention) and is usually operated by a local government, typically the county sheriff. Outside of North America, prison and jail often have the same meaning.

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  1. Prisons

    Prisons is the second full-length album from the metal band Eyes of Fire released by Century Media Records, in 2006.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Prisons

    Penal institutions, or places of confinement for war prisoners.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Prisons in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Prisons in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Prisons in a Sentence

  1. Lauren Adams:

    The foundational basis of our lawsuit is that these are male offenders being housed in women’s prisons, to pretend that they are female, in language or what we say about them or how we talk about them, goes against the whole basis of the lawsuit.

  2. Gavin Newsom:

    These for-profit prisons do not reflect our values.

  3. Kamala Harris:

    The component that is about what we do with incarcerated people and people in prisons is an important one, but it has to be coupled with sentencing reform, which is one of the biggest reasons that we have this mass incarceration problem, which we have as a country.

  4. Tomislav Salopek:

    The soldiers of Islamic State ... Wilayet Sinai catched me at Wednesday, 22 July, 2015. They want to substitute me with the Muslim womans arrested in Egyptian prisons. This matter have to be achieved before 48 hours from now. If not, the soldiers of Wilayet Sinai will kill me.

  5. Donald Trump:

    The fact that they are sending criminals and prisoners into our country and there are people stupid enough to put them in jails or let them roam the street, which is even worse, I have to respect (Mexico) for it, i don't know it you know, (former Cuban leader Fidel) Castro, many years ago, opened up his prisons and sent his prisoners to the United States.

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