What's the difference between borstal and prison?

Borstal


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During his teens and twenties, he did time in various prisons, borstals and detention centres for car theft and burglary.
  • (2) She was scathing about the large salaries being paid to BBC executives, programmes such as Dog Borstal and Britain's Most Embarrassing Pets, and the controversial decision to drop Arlene Phillips as a judge from Strictly Come Dancing, which she said could "only be a kind of ageism".
  • (3) On hearing his confession, Karl soothed young Craig with gifts, and hushed him with trips to remote wastelands for story time with Karl: Collected Borstal Tales.
  • (4) A separate email to governors from the Prison Service's national operations group asks them to "watch the mood and atmosphere in your prison" in the aftermath of the alleged assault on three people, which it says took place at Cookham Wood young offenders institution at Borstal in Kent.
  • (5) When I was sent to borstal, it was she who made sure I got housing benefit – otherwise I would have lost my flat.
  • (6) had been sentenced to detention centre, approved school, or Borstal training, and 20% had been sentenced to prison.
  • (7) "I missed Dog Borstal, I don't know whether you managed to catch it," joked Thompson.
  • (8) A shoplifting offence took him to borstal for the first time, and although he joined the RAF in 1947, he was soon back behind bars after a break-in at a chemist's shop.
  • (9) I’m thinking of tightly woven synthetic navy blue carpet tilex, hollow white polystyrene ceiling squares, the orangey pine front counter with full gloss varnish, laminated signs, Bisto-brown formica stackable tables, thick-ribbed radiators painted the muddy industrial green of borstals, and shelving built from clanging beige Meccano.
  • (10) After graduating with a congratulatory first in Literae Humaniores (classics) from Corpus Christi, Oxford, and after qualifying for the bar, he spent six months as a drama master at a borstal.
  • (11) He is now 47, and one of his earliest memories was the forbidding presence of Dover Borstal to which, as a treat, his grandfather would take him.
  • (12) I’d grown up being told I’d make nothing of my life and borstal was, and still is, part of the expected journey – many of the boys I knew left care for jail, while the girls left with babies.
  • (13) "He met Bruce Reynolds in borstal and it all went uphill and downhill from there," he said.
  • (14) Jenny Molloy, co-author of Hackney Child, matron in ITV’s Bring Back Borstal, patron of BASW England Went into care when she was nine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jenny Molloy (left), formerly known under the pseudonym Hope Daniels, with her daughter and granddaughter.
  • (15) A case-controlled study was carried out on all the 51 juvenile delinquents found in a point prevalence survey of a Nigerian Borstal Remand Centre.
  • (16) By the time he was 17, he was in Wormwood Scrubs, awaiting allocation to borstal.
  • (17) The Garden House Hotel in Cambridge will always be remembered by those of us who were students in 1970 for the riot that year that resulted in prison sentences for six students and what was then called "Borstal training" for two more who were under 21.
  • (18) Asked by Thompson to provide examples – "You need to give me a couple of shockers I can respond to" – she cited Britain's Most Embarrassing Pets, Britain's Tallest Man, Britain's Worst Teeth, Dog Borstal, and Help Me Anthea I'm Infested, presented by Anthea Turner.
  • (19) Members of group b were also in institutions: these included psychiatric hospitals and prisons, as well as borstals and approved schools.

Prison


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
  • (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
  • (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
  • (v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
  • (2) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (3) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
  • (4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (5) This is Selim’s second time in prison,” says Suleiman.
  • (6) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
  • (7) Thirteen per cent were in prison and 12% were resident in a therapeutic community.
  • (8) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (10) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (11) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
  • (12) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
  • (13) A lfred Ekpenyong knows first hand how tough it can be to find a secure foothold in mainstream society after leaving prison.
  • (14) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
  • (15) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
  • (16) Espinosa wrote that time has now come, with 15 of his group of prisoners having been released, six executed, and American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller killed in a bombing of Isis positions last month.
  • (17) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
  • (18) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
  • (19) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
  • (20) Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison.

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