(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.
Reformatory
Definition:
(a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
(n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Example Sentences:
(1) The defunct state reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, is a cold and imposing place, one part cathedral to two parts Castle Frankenstein.
(2) The juveniles in the reformatory for girls were surveyed for the incidence of venereal diseases (VD) and for a history of intravenous drug use.
(3) Many of the practices and beliefs of the Washingtonian Total Abstinence Movement were adopted by reformatory homes for "drunkards" that were established in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia in the mid-1800s.
(4) When finally open public welfare was translated into reality during 1918-1933 as a result of the zealous efforts on the part of the reformatory psychiatrists, this was mainly done to save cost, whereas Kolb's original aims were largely lost in the process.
(5) The influence of reformatory educational theory on both the pre-scientific educational theories concerning cripples before 1920 and the experimental-psychological and special educational concepts until 1929 are outlined.
(6) In the reformatory for girls anti-HBc was detected in 40.0% of 11 girls who were exposed to VD and in 7.0% of 43 girls who were not exposed to VD.
(7) Full coverage of these groups by means of X-ray screening, when they are held prisoners during the investigation period, makes it possible to detect all cases with active tuberculosis, to prevent the admission of undetected patients to the reformatory schools and thereby to stop the transmission of tuberculous infection.
(8) However, the full significance of his reformatory proposals was not realised at that time.
(9) April A groundbreaking documentary series, States of Fear, by the Irish broadcaster RTE, exposes abuse of children in church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.
(10) More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from dysfunctional families – a category that often included unmarried mothers – were sent to Ireland's austere network of industrial schools, reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s until the last facilities shut in the 1990s.
(11) Twenty-five male inmates of the Petersburg Federal Reformatory served as Ss.
(12) Appropriate three-stage chemotherapy with the use of surgical interventions, if indicated permits one to achieve in the reformatory institutions of the Ministry of Home Affairs a high efficacy of treatment of ++newly-diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients, which concurrently significantly decreases their epidemic danger for the general population when they are let free.
(13) St William's was founded in 1865 by Catholic benefactors and run locally as a "reformatory school" for boys.
(14) One fan we met was a former inmate of Mansfield Reformatory who had renounced a life of drugs and crime to become a trainee pastor, and who considered The Shawshank Redemption to be a touchstone text on his road to salvation.
(15) A number of enteric viruses isolated from swine in the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories and the Mimico Reformatory herds were grouped serologically and compared with previously described porcine enteroviruses.
(16) Sera from 69 adult prostitutes, 139 juveniles in the reformatory for boys, and 63 juveniles in the reformatory for girls, were collected between 1986 and 1987 in Fukuoka City.
(17) He also underlines that the degree the reformatory functions of the organism are influenced by the interference of chronic complications which he describes.
(18) Twenty-five inmates of the Petersburg Federal Reformatory Drug Abuse Program, Petersburg, Virginia were selected as Ss in this study.
(19) I was a glue-addicted delinquent [her misdemeanours earned her an eight-month stay in a reformatory].
(20) Children in industrial schools and reformatories were treated more like convicts and slaves than people with human rights, it said.