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state prison

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  1. state prisonnoun

    a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.

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  1. state prison

    This is a list of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):

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  1. state prison

    A state prison is a correctional institution or facility owned, managed, and operated by a state government entity, where individuals who have been convicted of crimes are incarcerated as part of their legal sentencing. The severity and type of these crimes usually surpass minor offenses, often including violent crimes, felonies, or repeated offenses. These facilities serve the main functions of punishment, deterrence, and rehabilitation for the inmates.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of state prison in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of state prison in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of state prison in a Sentence

  1. Jason Bryant:

    They would bring him into Soledad State Prison to receive mentorship, to participate in groups with us, to share his goals and visions, and to really have accountability conversations with men in blue -- men who had made terrible choices, they put in an incredible amount of not only gratitude and appreciation, but also trust in us to help mentor their son. And that was remarkable.

  2. District Attorney John Chisholm:

    We're no longer sending low-level drug offenders to state prison, but we are still sending violent criminals, and that's keeping the African-American numbers up, if we do this right, the people who are going to prison should be going to prison. The people who are going to prison are dangerous.

  3. Eric Siddall:

    Under California law, Flores should have been in a state prison cell on the day he murdered the two officers. Instead, because of George Gascón’s policies, he was in a hotel room in El Monte beating his girlfriend until two officers responded for the call for help. Now two officers are dead.

  4. Ken Padowitz:

    ``Mr. Adkins lost the Florida state lottery and won an all-expense-paid trip to the Florida state prison for 18 months,``said Assistant State Attorney Ken Padowitz, who prosecuted him.

  5. Lou Shapiro:

    Today, the news is fresh and society's anger and disgust is at a high, over the course of the next several months, after tempers cool, I expect that the public will view this case more analytically than emotionally, and realize that a federal state prison sentence on a first-time white-collar offense, under these facts, with these parents, might be a bit too punitive.

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