Example sentences for: prisons

How can you use “prisons” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But she also quotes the Amsterdam News , which says that Johnson was "welcomed like a conqueror" when he came back to Harlem in 1963 after doing time in Alcatraz and other prisons.

  • What is hypocritical is the way we've got all these Cuban refugees languishing in U.S. prisons, without any rights whatsoever to a speedy trial, just because they came here in a less dramatic fashion than did young Elian.

  • Yellow fever, dysentery, and scurvy killed a sizable proportion of these unfortunates, who were crammed into filthy floating prisons (called “hulks”) during the hours they weren’t working.

  • The writer visits Rwanda's awful prisons, where 92,000 people await trial.

  • The Irish Times, in fact, sounded like a loyalist British newspaper when it demanded greater security at the Maze ("if the government--any government--loses control of the prisons, it has lost everything") and insisted that the British-generated peace process "may have to adjust to the wind, but ...


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