(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.
Warder
Definition:
(n.) One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
(n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told me they had a particularly vicious warder called Van Rensburg who displayed a swastika on his arm.
(2) Meanwhile Huhne, who is in Wandsworth prison, was ridiculed on his first day in jail when a warder called him to breakfast shouting: "Order!
(3) Many institutions that appeared to have emerged autonomously, such Index on Censorship, the Butler Trust for prison warders, or the Minority Rights Group, were the fruits of David's seed.
(4) As for giving prisoners "support", I wouldn't like to be the warder offering a stick of nicotine gum to a con he's just divested of 20 full-strength Marlboros.
(5) According to Fahmy, warders laughed off his injury, telling him "it's OK because I'm a journalist and I only need to type.
(6) They used to have a tradition: each warder would select a prisoner who was their "handy boy" who would carry their flask and their lunchbox.
(7) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(8) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
(9) All it needs is a warder outside with a mobile phone to call the inside staff and say: “It’s the end cell on The Twos” or whatever and it stops.
(10) Yet their son said that despite the grim conditions, he has not seen any evidence of mistreatment, and both of his parents have befriended their warders.
(11) This is why they [warders] very casually beat people up.
(12) We were locked up in cells with a window to the corridor, but two panes were removed so we could talk to the warder.
(13) To determine whether Sertoli cells and gonocytes are functionally coupled in the cocultures, we used the glass bead-loading technique of McNeil and Warder to introduce Lucifer yellow (LY), a gap junction-permeant probe, and Rhodamine-dextran (RD), a larger marker excluded by gap junctions, simultaneously into cultures 24 h after plating.
(14) When Greyson and Loubani arrived at Tora, warders purposely left the three-dozen men inside the cramped truck, so that they might overheat in the blazing Cairo sun.
(15) As the judge told the court warder to take him down, Illsley gave a small wave to his supporter, picked up his coat and holdall and headed for the cells.
(16) Many years later, in 1995, Mandela – delivering the first annual lecture in memory of the Communist party leader Bram Fischer, who was his defence counsel at Rivonia – drew roars of laughter by recalling his dismay when he sought comfort from a friendly warder on the eve of sentencing.
(17) Warder Clyde Allee, (1885-1955) was a pioneer American scientist in the fields of ecology and animal behavior.
(18) The ordering of your day-to-day life depended on your interaction with the warders.
(19) Here he joined hundreds of others on the " blanket protest " – refusing to wear a prison uniform and call warders "sir".
(20) There was a warder, we called him Suitcase, but his name was Van Rensburg; he had a swastika on his hand.