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How to use the word Prisons in a Sentence?

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One of the problems that we have in our prisons across the country is we’re really not providing people with a skill when they leave prison.

Martin Schwartz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Constitution guarantees that people incarcerated in jails and prisons may not be detained beyond their release dates, and it is the fundamental duty of the State to ensure that all people in its custody are released on time.

Kristen Clarke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the state of Florida, our education standards not only don’t prevent, but they require teaching black history, all of the important things, that’s part of our core curriculum, this course on Black history. What are one of, what’s one of the lessons about? Queer theory? Now who would say that an important part of Black history is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids, and so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons, that’s a political agenda.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What we’ve found are shocking gaps in federal oversight, such as, for example, in 2021 alone, the Department of Justice failed to count nearly 1,000 deaths in jails and prisons nationwide.

Jon Ossoff

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The two-year-old measure, offered as a vehicle to help drive diversity within the City's police force, has been a hindrance in addressing critical staffing shortages within both the Philadelphia City Police and Prisons Departments.

Philadelphia City Councilmember Derek Green

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can’t tell people what to put on their grills on the weekend. But darn it, we should not be feeding the health care crisis in our prisons, our hospitals, and most importantly, in our schools, so we want to go in a more healthy direction.

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do not believe in the privatization of justice, there is a profit motive behind private prisons that is anathema to the core of who we are as Americans.

Stacey Abrams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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.

Lauren Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

**(C)(P) FROM MY BOOK-BOWEL SOUNDS AMERICA. WHY ARE THE KILLERS OF YOUR PEOPLE WALKING FREE? MASS INCARCERATION DOMINATES THE POOR IN PRISONS. NO REAL PROTECTION FOR YOU AND ME AND YOUR DEMOCRACY.INSURRECTIONS ABOUND WHILE DEMOCRACY UNDERMINE, MANY HOPING IT WILL DISAPPEAR IN JUST A MATTER OF TIME. WAKE UP AMERICA!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

The reason for the increase is the same as the increase in gun sales over the last two years, increased crime and concerns that police aren’t able to do their job, and the large numbers of inmates released from jails and prisons.

John Lott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a different environment from multiple prisons I've been in, it was more open arms, more welcoming.

Charles King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm disappointed in the Dept. of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for simply not notifying Metropolitan Correctional Center of such a big decision, even though Metropolitan Correctional Center believe this is something that should have happened, but you should have told Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Tyrone Covington

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Metropolitan Correctional Center will be meeting with BOP officials to review their plan so that Metropolitan Correctional Center can ensure all necessary access for attorneys to their clients and the ability for defendants to appear in a timely fashion as required by the court. i'm disappointed in the Dept. of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for simply not notifying Metropolitan Correctional Center of such a big decision, even though Metropolitan Correctional Center believe this is something that should have happened.

Tyrone Covington

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It makes me feel more comfortable with inmates. And then being a clinical psychologist, I would work in the prisons. So, I would see the inside of it.

Christa Richello

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Prisons are overcrowded, so there are limitations to hygiene and disease control efforts.

Aryut Sinthoppan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

In the prisons here, a lot of things are done through bribery people have cell phones, etc. because they can pay the guards, but we wont engage in any of that; we know they (authorities) would throw the book at Trevor just for doing what everyone else is doing.

Trevor Reed

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There are two reasons Gitmo is so hard to close. One is the military justice system for the inmates has been a fiasco, which has ground on without resolving all the cases, second, there is a political refusal to accept that closure means releasing the unconvicted somewhere, repatriating others, and moving some inmates to U.S. prisons.

Ben Friedman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The story gained so much traction immediately with people, because there's such a long history affecting many different racial and ethnic groups, across many institutions -- mental health hospitals, public hospitals, prisons.

Natalia Molina

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The reality of these findings shows that we aren't coming anywhere close to meeting their basic needs. Ultimately, it creates a dangerous situation for the inmates, prison staff, the communities that prisons are located in and in our overall effort to contain the crisis.

Brendan Saloner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Prisoners have a right to adequate protection of their health while incarcerated, the reality of these findings shows that we aren't coming anywhere close to meeting their basic needs. Ultimately, it creates a dangerous situation for the inmates, prison staff, the communities that prisons are located in and in our overall effort to contain the crisis.

Brendan Saloner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We view these photos taken of people deprived of their liberty in the prisons with great concern, they are scenes where people are brought together in prison yards in a humiliating, demeaning manner.

Erika Guevara

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The spread of coronavirus in prisons threatens the health and safety of all of us, when youre incarcerated theres no such thing as social distancing and ensuring good hygiene is not an option. Leaders must do everything possible to prevent incarcerated people and those who work in prisons from becoming ill and spreading the virus.

United States

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

A lot of folks don't understand you don't just shut down a prison system like that, i understand the criticism of the timing on it, but that's where I believe that experience on running prisons — and we know our population, we know what we can and can't do and the right time to do it, and that played a big role in making the decision.

Prisons Director Michael Carvajal

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In terms of recovery services offered within Ohio prisons, the only programs that have shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic as of today are the ones at Marion Correctional Institution.

Eric Wandersleben

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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