Example sentences for: prisons

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

  • Some areas of lexical density reflect the social structure of all-male prisons: most of the terms for women are pejorative, there are numerous terms for heterosexual sex, and an abundance of terms for the penis.

  • In a class action that concluded in a settlement at the end of 2000, he succeeded in changing the oppressive conditions of confinement in Philadelphia's prisons.

  • But inmates are routinely beaten and suffer recidivism rates higher than those of juveniles in adult prisons.

  • JNET was launched in 1998 by the Ridge-Schweiker administration to help local and state police, courts, prisons and probation and parole officers exchange instantly updated information on individuals moving through the criminal justice system - making it possible to better track potentially dangerous individuals.

  • Nothing so simple appears in News of a Kidnapping . The author says very little about the United States, apart from noting that, at the beginning of the 1990s, when the book takes place, the U.S. wanted to extradite Colombian drug lords to American prisons.


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