prisons
- plural of prison.
Example Sentences
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The officer said he wasn’t aware of the change but that the vendor is Keefe Group, which supplies commissaries at prisons and immigrant detention centers across the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that RLUPIA, which applies to local prisons that receive federal funding, does not allow for legal challenges against individual officials.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026
So he printed out a physical copy of a binding appeals court decision from 2017 that prohibited prisons from compelling Rastafarian inmates to cut their hair.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026
He explained that when the federal government gives states money for prisons, education, healthcare and other matters, it can require them to follow the law but it does not authorize private lawsuits against their employees.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
They were smuggled into prisons and concentration camps and across borders into Sweden and Switzerland.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
