Words similar to prison

Example sentences for: prison

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The WP , NYT , and LAT fronts report on China's handing down of stiff prison sentences--11 to 13 years--to dissidents who'd been trying to start China's first democratic opposition party.
In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's death: "My name's Wilson ...
On another, Wachtler, wearing his stained, tattered prison uniform, is paid a visit by Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun.)
In the latter cases, known inside the prison as the "Friday night fights," guards would sometimes put a member of the Crips in a holding cell with a hated Blood, lock the door, and stand back to watch.
The cable network's first dramatic series gets high marks for its realistic and "gritty" (the critics' favorite term) depiction of life in a maximum-security prison.