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单词 prison
释义
prisonpris‧on /ˈprɪzən/ ●●● S2 W2 noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINprison
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French, Latin prehensio ‘act of seizing’, from prehendere; ➔ PREHENSILE
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Prison is an expensive and inefficient way to deal with social problems.
  • a fifteen-year prison sentence
  • a maximum security prison
  • Clayton will be released on Tuesday after serving seven years, prison officials said.
  • Conditions in the prison were shocking.
  • Johnson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.
  • The prosecuting lawyers say that Price may face life in prison.
  • When he was released from prison, Mandela was interviewed in Zambia.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But that issue quickly faded when the prison got built in Eloy.
  • He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban.
  • Over half of the four hundred thousand people in our prisons are black.
  • The prison doctor refused unless she agreed to drink a cup of tea and eat a piece of bread and butter.
  • The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
  • The instruments for punishing prison rioters were already available and the offence was unnecessary.
  • Then she went to the prison to see Sarah.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial: · He was sentenced to five years in prison.· Wandsworth Prison
a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: · This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887.· He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail.· 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes.· The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing.· Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail.
British English another way of spelling jail: · He spent the night in gaol.
American English a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: · the Ohio State Penitentiary· The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater.· the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island
American English formal an official word for a prison: · 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility.
British English, detention center American English a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: · Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life.· a juvenile detention center· Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airport
British English a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: · In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends.
a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: · a prison cell· Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.
Longman Language Activatora place where people are kept as punishment
a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime: · Conditions in the prison were shocking.· a maximum security prisonin prison: · Johnson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.· The prosecuting lawyers say that Price may face life in prison.be released from prison: · When he was released from prison, Mandela was interviewed in Zambia.prison officials/conditions/regulations etc: · Clayton will be released on Tuesday after serving seven years, prison officials said.prison sentence (=how long someone has to spend in prison): · a fifteen-year prison sentence
a prison, or similar smaller building where prisoners who are waiting for a trial are kept: · This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887.· Alfassi was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County jail.in jail: · 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes.be put/thrown in jail: · The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing.go to jail/be sent to jail: · Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and went to jail.jail sentence/term (=how long someone has to spend in jail): · The riots ended with long jail terms for 338 mobsters.
American a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: · The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater.· the Ohio State penitentiary· the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island
a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: · Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.prison/jail cell: · The prison cells have doors of heavy steel.
British /detention center American a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison: · Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life.· a juvenile detention center
to put someone in prison as a punishment
also send somebody to prison/jail to officially order someone to be taken to prison and kept there: · Eventually, her attacker was caught and put in prison.· The judge sent him to jail for seven years.
informal to put someone in prison - use this especially when you think that someone deserves to be in prison: lock somebody up: · Rapists deserve to be locked up for the rest of their lives.lock up somebody: · It costs $23,000 a year to lock up an adult.· Locking up more criminals has helped to reduce the crime rate and produce safer streets.
to put someone in prison - use this especially when you think that someone does not deserve to be in prison: · The court's decision suggests that it is OK to throw pregnant women in jail just because they are addicted.· When they called for free elections, the government threw them all in jail.
to put someone in prison for a fixed period of time - used especially in newspaper reports: · Many of the group's leaders have now been jailed.be jailed for (doing) something: · About 5000 people have been jailed for crimes of terrorism or treason since 1992.· Marco was arrested and jailed for accepting bribes from drug dealers.
formal to put someone in prison - use this especially when you think the punishment is wrong or unfair: · Thousands of civilians were arrested, imprisoned and killedbe imprisoned for (doing) something: · Two of the boys have been imprisoned for theft.· The priest had been imprisoned for preaching the gospel.
to put someone in prison - used in newspapers, television etc and in formal contexts: · Carter spent 19 years incarcerated in New Jersey on murder charges.· There are too many people on death row who are innocent of the crimes for which they are incarcerated.
to put someone, especially someone from another country, in prison during a war, because they are thought to be dangerous: · The French soldiers, who had surrendered without fighting, were interned in Hanoi.· Thousands died. And thousands were interned in forced labour camps.
to force someone to stay in a place as a prisoner
to force someone to stay in a place, as if they were a prisoner: · West had abducted the young girl and kept her in his basement for 10 days.keep somebody prisoner: · Police think that the woman may have been kept prisoner for the twenty four hours before she was murdered.
if an enemy or group of criminals takes someone hostage , they keep that person as a prisoner, and threaten to kill or injure them unless they get what they want: · The government is concerned that British troops might be taken hostage by guerrillas.· A band of human rights activists stormed the embassy and took several people hostage.
to keep someone in a place and not allow them to leave - used especially in news reports: · Police are holding two men in connection with the robbery.hold somebody prisoner/hostage/captive: · Several tourists were being held captive by rebels in Kashmir.· Militant prisoners held 24 guards hostage on Friday, as jail unrest spread throughout the country.
to make someone stay in a very small place, with the result that their freedom or movements are restricted: confine somebody to something: · The judge has confined the jury to their hotel until after the verdict.· All the illegal immigrants were confined to a small island in the harbour.be confined in: · Brett was eventually confined in a psychiatric hospital, where he committed suicide.
informal to put or keep someone in a place so that they are no longer free: shut somebody up: · According to the legend, Acrisius built an underground house for his daughter. Here he shut her up and guarded her.· The lawyer claimed that his client had been shut up in a prison cell for hours, when there was no legal reason to keep him.
to be in prison as a punishment
· Both her sons are now in jail.· The two Irishmen were in prison for five years before they were found to be innocent.
informal to be in prison - used especially by someone who has been in prison and is talking about their experience: · "When I was inside," said Jimmy. "I really learned how to look after myself."
informal to be in prison for a period of time as a punishment for a crime: · Sid's wife ran off with another man while he was doing time.do time for: · None of us knew that Greg had done time for stealing cars.
to spend a period of time in prison, especially the period that a judge has said you must spend there: serve 3 years/6 months etc (for something): · Holt is currently serving five years for child abduction.serve time (for something): · Both the brothers had criminal records and had served time for robbery.serve time in prison/jail: · She met Schmidt while serving time in prison for drug possession.serve a sentence: · Fowler was released after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
to be kept in a place by the police
if someone who the police think is guilty of a crime is in custody , they are kept in prison until it is time for them to be judged in a law court: · The twenty-seven militants now in custody were arrested in raids last month.be in police custody: · An inquiry has been launched following the death of a man in police custody.be held in custody: · A woman is being held in custody in connection with the murder.be remanded in custody British (=be sent back to prison from a court until your trial): · Naylor was remanded in custody by Huyton magistrates until June 17th.
if someone is under arrest , the police are keeping them guarded because they think they are guilty of a crime: · Police confirmed last night that Mr Joshi is under arrest.be under arrest for: · I'm afraid your son is under arrest for theft.
to be kept somewhere by the police or army so that you cannot leave, and especially so that they can ask you questions: · On Tuesday last week, Finnegan was detained and questioned by fraud squad officers.be detained for: · He was detained for questioning about the terrorist attacks.
someone who is in prison as a punishment for a crime
someone who is kept in prison as a punishment: · The prisoners are allowed an hour's exercise every day.political prisoner (=someone who is a prisoner because of their political beliefs): · Thousands of political prisoners remain imprisoned, frequently as a result of unfair trials.
someone who has been proved guilty of a crime and has been sent to prison: · Sakhalin was an island where convicts were sent, 700 miles from Khabarovsk.ex-convict (=someone who used to be in prison): · Stubbs was an ex-convict who got a job as a security guard.an escaped convict (=someone who has escaped from prison): · There was a report on the news about an escaped convict.
a prisoner in a particular prison: · More than half the inmates were there for some sort of violent crime.prison inmate: · The number of prison inmates has been increasing in recent years.
someone who is kept in a place when they do not want to be there
· My parents were very strict. Sometimes I felt like a prisoner in my own home.· It's a science fiction story about people being taken to another planet as prisoners.hold/keep somebody prisoner · Mann was held prisoner in the back of the Chevrolet and told she was going to be killed.
a soldier etc who is caught by the enemy during a war and kept as a prisoner: · There were general codes covering such matters as the treatment of prisoners of war.· a POW camp
someone who is kept in a place illegally, especially in a war - used especially in literature: · All the captives were kept in a darkened room with their hands tied.· The rebels promised to release their captives unharmed if the government did as they said.
someone who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy country or organization, and is threatened with death or injury if that person's government or organization does not do what the enemy wants: · The terrorists say that they will kill the hostages if we don't agree to their demands.· An attempt to rescue the American hostages ended in disaster when a helicopter crashed.take somebody hostage (=make someone your hostage): · The medical team were captured and taken hostage.hold somebody hostage (=keep someone in a place as your hostage): · A British journalist was held hostage for over four years.
someone who is being kept in a place by the police while they are waiting to go to court, or so that the police can ask them questions about something illegal they may have done: · The government has ordered the trial of all detainees within six months.· According to a recent report, many detainees claim that police have mistreated them.
when someone is kept in a place they do not want to be in
· In his book, he describes what life was like during his long captivity.in captivity · The industrialist, who was captured on November 24th, was freed after 84 days in captivity.be held/kept in captivity · Folkes says that he was held in captivity for over a year.
the state of being kept as a prisoner, especially as punishment for a crime: · Johnson was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for causing a riot.life imprisonment: · Many women believe that the punishment for rape should be life imprisonment.
especially British when someone is kept in a place such as a prison because they may have done something illegal: · Cases of detention without trial were common in the last century.· Ormerod, aged 19, was sentenced to nine months' detention for possessing and supplying cannabis.be held/kept in detention: · Marik, who had been held in detention for over a year, was eventually found not guilty.release somebody from detention: · Mrs Davis was released from detention yesterday and all charges have been dropped.
the period of time that someone must spend in prison
the period of time that a judge decides that someone should spend in prison: · Belfast Appeal Court increased his sentence from five to nine years.serve a sentence (for something): · He was recently freed after serving a sentence for leading anti-government riots.serve a 2-year/10-year etc sentence: · Perrault is serving a 15-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion.prison/jail sentence: · Moore began an eighteen-month prison sentence in November.life sentence (=when someone is in prison for the rest of their life): · Hailey is serving a life sentence, and is reported to be in poor health.death sentence (=when a judge says that a criminal's punishment is death): · If found guilty of first-degree murder, Bangham could face the death sentence.
WORD SETS
borstal, nouncell, nounchain, nounchain gang, nounconcentration camp, nounconcurrent, adjectiveconfinement, nounconvict, nouncorrectional, adjectivecustodial sentence, nouncustody, noundeath row, noundetainee, noundetention, noundetention centre, noundrunk tank, noundungeon, nounfetter, verbfetters, noungaol, gaoler, noungovernor, nounguard, verbgulag, nounhandcuff, verbhandcuffs, nounincarcerate, verbinmate, nouninside, adverbintern, verbinternee, nouninternment, nounjailbreak, nounlabour camp, nounlifer, nounmanacle, nounold lag, nounopen prison, nounoubliette, nounparole, nounparole, verbpen, nounpenal, adjectivepenitentiary, nounpillory, nounpokey, nounpolitical prisoner, nounporridge, nounpreventive detention, nounprison, nounprison camp, nounprisoner, nounprisoner of conscience, nounprisoner of war, nounprison visitor, nounreformatory, nounremand home, nounremission, nounserve, verbshackle, nounshackle, verbsolitary, nounsolitary confinement, nounstretch, nounthumbscrew, nounwarden, nounwarder, nounyardbird, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
· She went to prison for theft.
· Mentally ill people should not be put in prison.
· I was afraid I might get sent to prison.
· He was released from prison six weeks ago.
· When’s he going to be let out of prison?
· The boy just come out of prison after doing two years for assault.
· Blake escaped from a Missouri prison last year.
adjectives
(=one where prisoners are not restricted as much as usual)· He was transferred to an open prison.
· He was sent to a maximum security prison where prisoners are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day.
prison + NOUN
(=a period of time in prison as a punishment)· He is serving a four-year prison sentence.
· Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.
(=a room where a prisoner lives)· Overcrowding means that many prisoners have to share a prison cell.
(=all the prisoners in a country)· The government wants to reduce the size of the prison population.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 Memet should, in her opinion, be cast into prison.
 the prison governor
 The prison guards were reasonably friendly.
(=the number of people in prisons in a country or area)· A quarter of the prison population is under 21.
· The prison riots were caused by bad physical conditions and poor security.
· He had broken one of the school rules.
(also a custodial sentence British English formal)· If found guilty, he faces a long jail sentence.
· He faced a maximum prison term of 25 years.
(=an area outside a prison or school where prisoners or students do activities outdoors)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Heber is serving his three-year term in a federal prison in Bastrop, Texas.· Postal investigators recovered the letter at about 6: 30 a. m. Friday morning at a post office outside Leavenworth federal prison.· We open in familiar Grisham territory, in a low-security federal prison.· Former longtime President Peter MacDonald is serving a 14-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of riot charges in 1992.· In 1995, their civil suits were among the more than 40, 000 filed in federal courts by prison inmates.· McVeigh is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at a federal prison in Terre Haute.· Doctors and insurance companies faced federal fines and prison time for violating the rules.· Two were sent to the federal prison and another was found in the postal system.
· Just one letter from Tyndale survives from his long period in prison.· While she does not want to die, neither does she want to endure a long life in prison.· The government responded to these incidents with considerable brutality, sentencing those involved to long prison terms.· Since then, both men have been sentenced to long prison terms for attempted bank robbery in Los Angeles.· He doesn't deserve to be facing a long prison sentence.· A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery.· And he waited far too long in prison for a place to be made available in hospital.
· It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet.· A lesser finding of manslaughter carries a maximum 20-year prison term.· He was due to be sentenced on Oct. 1, and faced a maximum prison term of 28 years.· If prosecutors win guilty verdicts, they could ask for maximum prison terms.· Each count carried a five-year maximum prison sentence.
· Goulais is now in an open prison, where he enjoys special treatment.· If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish.· She was picked up outside the gates of Askham Grange open prison near York by her son and daughter.· Voice over Open prisons like Leyhill house offenders who are coming to the end of their sentences.· He should have returned to the open prison on the tenth of August.· Visits to Parliament and an open prison have given them insights into less accessible subjects.· Male speaker That's what open prisons are all about.· Successful inmates can hope to move back to a lower category C security, or even a Category D open prison.
NOUN
· I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.· In prison camps, cigarettes frequently reach that status.· The Government has also agreed that the men could be used to escort detainees released from prison camps.· This is nothing like the bucolic prison camp where his half-sister Carmella is held.· A writer and poet, he had spent 25 years in prison camps, being released in 1990.· Generally, short hair is associated in the public mind with convicts, prison camp inmates and the military.· People don't go out and spend millions turning their homes into prison camps unless there is real fear in the air.· Holly built a castle, a castle on an island, a castle on an island that is a prison camp.
· Kaczynski was scheduled to begin seven days of mental tests Saturday in his Dublin prison cell.· More than a dozen activists have locked themselves inside a mock prison cell they put up outside the federal Interior Ministry here.· It wasn't like a prison cell, it-was like a maid's room, Eve told herself firmly.· They are part of a nationwide operation which has cost millions of pounds after the disturbances which destroyed hundreds of prison cells.· Nadia's winning work in her age-group showed a prison cell with doors thrown open, depicting freedom.· It had only one room, and one window, which was heavily barred, like a prison cell.· The cell where he was held was, like a prison cell in a spaghetti western, built of mud.· They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now.
· The prison Governor says he was in a disturbed state.· Catering responsibilities for the prison lie with Mike Lamb, a prison governor whose title is G5 Caterer.· Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor.· The names of certain prison governors whose personal positive qualities permeated every aspect of their prisons tend to be long remembered.· The Home Secretary said that he had found prison governors who were in favour of the Bill.· The jail trip prize has been offered by prison governor Robin Halward.· But the prison governor insists the correct procedures were followed.· The situation has prompted the prison governor to take the unusual step of refusing to accept any more remand prisoners.
· Most of the prison guards ran away, with the prisoners.· Since I was the only child in the jail, the prison guards were nice to me.· At one stage, the prison guards went on strike, claiming the prisoners were better armed than them.· After 75 days of being brutalized and sexually assaulted by other inmates and ignored by the prison guards, Rodney hanged himself.
· It is worth stressing that all of this teaching is done by the prisoners themselves rather than by prison officers.· He was one of a handful of men trusted to work unsupervised - a mistake say prison officers.· Then the prison officers put a black cloth over the condemned man's head.· It is staffed by prison officers and nurses and the discipline and medical roles often conflict.· McLeod, 27, was discovered by prison officers hanging from a bed sheet attached to a window bar.· But prison officers say it would be impossible to enforce.· The victims have been a prison officer and three Roman Catholic civilians, one of them a woman.
· There is evidence that a senior prison official received a copy of the committal order on Form N111 on 3 July 1992.· A top prison official ordered the contract approved without competitive bids and went to work for VitaPro several months later.· She said prison officials had been responding to complaints about pigeon droppings from employees and inmates.· But McQuay was released directly from the psychiatric prison and driven to the San Antonio lockup by prison officials.· Also in December, prison official Larry Kyle helped Barry iron out a visa problem.· None the less, prison officials say, they have to become more creative in working with Texas felons.· Later, Cyrus and Poe must stop Johnny from raping a female prison official whom the prisoners have taken hostage.
· The main reason for the huge prison population is the fashion for severe and mandatory sentencing.· The average prison population of 48,600 thus represented an average overcrowding of 8 percent.· The prison population represents the single highest concentration of adult illiterates.· Financially, the programme depends on savings gained from reducing the prison population.· Unfortunately however, such a policy would also have the effect of increasing the already excessive prison population by an enormous extent.· But there is no mechanical relationship between the level of crime and the size of the prison population.· Howard protested about overcrowding in conditions of a more or less stable prison population.
· It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet.· A woman manager at Long Lartin top security prison has been suspended after reports that she had a relationship with an inmate.
· Of these, 4,300 were tried and received prison sentences, and the rest were released.· The boys received an indefinite prison sentence.· Whilst I was in Holloway, my probation officer sorted out something to try and stop me getting a prison sentence.· On Tuesday, Symington vetoed a bill that would have allowed judges to increase prison sentences for hate crimes.· He had already served a prison sentence in New Zealand.· Former longtime President Peter MacDonald is serving a 14-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of riot charges in 1992.· Name the doctor given a suspended prison sentence for the attempted murder of a dying patient. 4.· It comes with a possible two-year prison sentence and a $ 200, 000 fine.
· Derek Lewis, prison service director general, said Wymott was now stable and the governor and staff were in control.· That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected.· We also need people prepared to write, as pen-friends, to warders and other officials in the prison service.· Yet he chose to keep it secret and blamed officers of the prison service for what happened.· The police, probation and prison services have the information families need, and they generally have the opportunity to impart it.· Officers speak freely and openly about being in the prison service and at Holloway and so too do the prisoners.· The prison service will be able to bid against private firms to decide who runs it.· The growing number of life sentence prisoners has been a considerable problem for the prison service for some years now.
· These were intercepted by a trustee prisoner working in the mail room, who removed them before prison staff examined the post.· The prison staff member will then begin to administer lethal doses of three chemicals.· The prison staff say they have a difficulty with dealing with troublesome prisoners being sent from other jails.· And prison staff may become restless.· A police officer also discounted speculation that the attack was linked to threats against prison staff.· The system will also suffer severe difficulties if it lacks legitimacy with its own employees, including prison staff and probation officers.· At 8am police officers, accompanying prison staff, tried to enter the centre but were met by a hail of stones.· If the Court of Appeal orders their release it will not surprise many prison staff.
· Most prisoners are badly tortured and forced to sign unread confessions' before they are passed to the state prison.· Staley is serving a 15-to 25-year state prison sentence for stalking his ex-girlfriend.· Our small town serves an agricultural county which has a state forest and a state prison.· Bacon was sentenced to 12 { years and remains in the state prison system.· He faces death by the electric chair in Florida state prison.· Deer Lodge is the home of the state prison.· Upchurch served 13 months of a two-year sentence before being released from state prison last spring.· Calderon had escaped from state prison.
· After these experiences they set out to rebuild the prison system, from the perspective of prisoners turned gaolers.· The prison system became, by default, a major enforcer of repression.· These mainly constructive changes in penal policy were not matched by changes within the prison system.· None of those options would exist in the adult prison system, and he would be particularly vulnerable to brutalisation.· It almost certainly means they must counter those forces within the prison system which have a vested interest in expansion.· As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.· But Brady is no longer in the prison system, having been transferred to Ashworthin 1985.· Collins is not related to former prison system executive director Andy Collins.
· They were sentenced to short prison terms and assessed fines.· Both the defence and the prosecution said that they would appeal against the sentence; prosecutors had sought a 10-year prison term.· If prosecutors win guilty verdicts, they could ask for maximum prison terms.· An estimated 8,500 other prisoners - most of the remaining prison population - also benefited from reductions in their prison terms.· Sentences included prison terms of up to seven years and a total of $ 17, 000 in fines.· Two earlier suspended sentences for similar offences also came into force, extending Honsik's prison term to a potential three years.· They received prison terms and were ordered to pay restitution.
· One of the prison warders, he said, had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released.· Daantjie Siebert, told the prison warder that Biko had studied medicine and yoga and was probably faking his injuries.· They say the most likely way the keys were smuggled out was by a prison warder rather than an inmate to a visitor.· They're the bottom of the professional heap, somewhere between nurses and prison warders.
VERB
· In reality, the new prison is built and the old prison remains.· They build a prison and put the people inside it.· In keeping with the tradition of doing things in a big way, the Texas authorities have always built large prisons.· Governor Bush has made his mark building prisons, toughening laws on juvenile crime and calling for lower property taxes.· The state built 10 prisons from the opening of San Quentin in 1852 until the middle of the last decade.· Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin has said he will not build any more prisons.
· John's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times.· By learning and practicing the basics, Dan had escaped the prison of his handicap for ever.· Colin Wood escaped from prison in 1994 and spent three years on the run before he was tracked down in Alabama.· Calderon had escaped from state prison.· He escaped a prison sentence after magistrates heard he was seeking help for his drink problem.· Light leaped out through the door, escaped from prison at 186, 000 miles per second.· Each of them had attempted to escape from another prison at least once.
· Voice over Anyone considering selling counterfeit goods at car boot sales could face two years in prison or unlimited fines.· Sergeant demoted, facing prison term Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.· Now he faced years in prison.· Doctors and insurance companies faced federal fines and prison time for violating the rules.· He doesn't deserve to be facing a long prison sentence.· If convicted by the three-judge panel of premeditated murder, Amir faces life in prison.· If convicted of the charge he could face a prison sentence of six years.· Without the plea, Grammer faced 20 years in prison.
· Then I went to prison and they made the baby a ward of court without telling me.· He recounted the many contact visits Craig paid before she went to prison.· Hubbell went to prison for 18 months and is now out on parole.· When Mohibullah went to prison I was so upset I thought about giving up squash completely.· After breakfast the male inmates went outside to the prison yard for exercises, which included jumping over long bamboo sticks.· Then she went to the prison to see Sarah.· Liddy, 66, went to prison for more than four years for his part in the Watergate burglary.
· Attica is a sleepy, up-state village that holds the largest maximum-security prison in New York State.· Relatively, more black people were held in secure prisons.· Nichols is being held at a federal prison in the Denver suburbs.· Checkpoints can turn into ambushes, and thousands have disappeared, presumed killed or held in prison.· One is being held in prison, the other in a Youth institution in Dublin.
· The strike comes after the Home Office put thousands of prison jobs out to tender.· He was arrested twice and put in special prisons for lepers.· All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.· They're going to put you in prison.· I believe he was conspiring against me to put me in prison.· Who has put the people in prison?· Seriously mentally disordered people should not be put in prison.
· Sadly, the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison.· The boys received an indefinite prison sentence.· She received a three-year prison sentence and was fined $ 1, 500.· They received prison terms and were ordered to pay restitution.· He could face additional charges and, if convicted, receive a prison sentence, sources said.· In February, Baldwin received a 1-year prison term.· Two weeks ago, Harrison received a 10-month prison sentence.
· Krishna Sen, the first editor to be jailed, was released from prison three months ago after serving a two-year sentence.· Aunt Bella had been released on bail from prison.· Postscriptum: I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present.· Upchurch served 13 months of a two-year sentence before being released from state prison last spring.· On 6 July, Price was released from prison in this country.· Recently released from prison, Hubbell is once again under investigation by Starr, this time for allegedly accepting hush money.· Some 3,000 protestors were released from prison that day and the curfew was lifted.· With time already served, Williams' attorney calculated that his client could be released from prison in March 1999.
· If she really wanted she could get him sent to prison.· It took months, but police found the killer and sent him to prison.· I might even be sent to prison.· They were going to send him to prison.· Many of those who have been sent to prison rely on income support alone.· Two were sent to the federal prison and another was found in the postal system.· They say that too many sick people are being sent to prison again and again instead of being treated.· Most of the Communists left with the Red Army, but some were sent to prison.
· Yerkes had been an embezzler in the United States and had served a prison sentence.· On the other, persons who serve prison sentences need to be able to get a job and participate in society.· During the next eight years Christie served a number of prison sentences for theft and, on one occasion, assault.· Newton was released after serving two years in prison.· But today, even after her conviction and serving her prison sentence, the Baroness insists she did nothing wrong.· He will now start serving a nine-year prison term.· Prosecutors defended the 1992 trial, which left Tyson behind bars serving a prison term of up to six years.· Former longtime President Peter MacDonald is serving a 14-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of riot charges in 1992.
· The paratroop officer failed and spent two years in prison, then slowly began to build his platform for government.· Officials earlier this week said Guzman, who is still at large, spent months corrupting prison guards for the escape.· A writer and poet, he had spent 25 years in prison camps, being released in 1990.· After embezzling funds he spent time in prison in the 80s.· He spent 21 months in prison before the prisoner exchange in Berlin, 35 years ago next Monday.· In California they spend more money on prisons than education.· He soon became a Republican, and he finally spent time in prison for income tax evasion.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • A forced labour camp, they call it.
  • All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.
  • Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp.
  • I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.
  • More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
  • Of these, 55,000 were to be punished either by receiving prison sentences or by being sent to labour camps.
  • The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles.
  • Then he was chosen, with another senior officer, to run the Athi River Detention Camp.
► clap somebody in prison/jail/irons
  • After the revolution, opposition leaders were flung into jail.
  • A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
  • Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
  • The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
  • The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
  • There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
  • Wave of unrest hits model prison.
  • Diem threw them all into jail.
  • Gabriel had broken his apprentice's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison.
  • Her father threw her into prison for her treachery to him.
  • Leyland fired one off the bar, and the police threw him in jail overnight.
  • She had heard the cops on Plenty didn't even bother throwing you in jail.
  • She was going to hit him, even if they threw her in jail again.
  • They throw a baby into prison.
  • What is more, if people resort to blackmail and other threats, why not throw them into jail?
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounprisonprisonerimprisonmentadjectiveimprisonableverbimprison
1[countable, uncountable] a building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial SYN  jail → prisoner, imprison:  He visits his dad in prison every week. Ricky has been out of prison for three years now. They’ll probably put him in prison for a long time. Helen was sent to prison for attacking a man with a knife. The two men were arrested only a week after they were released from prison. Three terrorists escaped from Brixton Prison. an increase in the number of women going to prison Mr Gunn received a ten-year prison sentence.2[uncountable] the system that deals with keeping people in a prison:  the prison service Does prison deter criminals from offending again?3[countable] an unpleasant place or situation which it is difficult to escape from:  The farm felt like a prison to her.GRAMMAR• You use prison without ‘the’ when talking in general about someone being kept somewhere as a punishment: · He is in prison for murder.· The judge sent him to prison.• You use the prison when talking about a particular place: · There are about 600 prisoners in the prison.· Visitors to the prison are carefully checked.Grammar guide ‒ NOUNSCOLLOCATIONSverbsgo to prison· She went to prison for theft.put somebody in prison· Mentally ill people should not be put in prison.send somebody to prison· I was afraid I might get sent to prison.be released from prison· He was released from prison six weeks ago.let somebody out of prison· When’s he going to be let out of prison?come/get out of prison· The boy just come out of prison after doing two years for assault.escape from (a) prison· Blake escaped from a Missouri prison last year.adjectivesan open prison (=one where prisoners are not restricted as much as usual)· He was transferred to an open prison.a maximum security prison· He was sent to a maximum security prison where prisoners are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day.prison + NOUNa prison sentence/term (=a period of time in prison as a punishment)· He is serving a four-year prison sentence.a prison officer/official/warder/guard· Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.a prison cell (=a room where a prisoner lives)· Overcrowding means that many prisoners have to share a prison cell.the prison population (=all the prisoners in a country)· The government wants to reduce the size of the prison population.THESAURUSprison a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial: · He was sentenced to five years in prison.· Wandsworth Prisonjail a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: · This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887.· He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail.· 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes.· The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing.· Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail.gaol /dʒeɪl/ British English another way of spelling jail: · He spent the night in gaol.penitentiary /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri/ American English a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: · the Ohio State Penitentiary· The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater.· the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Islandcorrectional facility American English formal an official word for a prison: · 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility.detention centre British English, detention center American English a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: · Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life.· a juvenile detention center· Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airportopen prison British English a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: · In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends.cell a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: · a prison cell· Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.
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