state prison
a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
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The Empire State had previously downplayed deaths, only reporting those in clinical settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and adult care facilities, and neglecting to report deaths in several other places, including at home or in state prisons.
New NY Guv Quietly Admits Cuomo Admin Fudged the Numbers on COVID | Corbin Bolies | August 25, 2021 | The Daily BeastIt needs to be reformatted and California will be reallocating individuals in its state prisons to their last known address in the data.
New Census Data Shows San Diego Grew More Diverse | Maya Srikrishnan | August 13, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIn western New York, in the mid-1820s, women were placed in an attic above the kitchen of the new state prison.
Inhumane system of incarceration in U.S. poses special danger to women | Jessica Adler | June 16, 2021 | Washington PostOnce Wilson was shipped to state prison, undoing his conviction involved more complex legal filings.
Fairfax seeks to dismiss 400 convictions in cases brought by one officer | Tom Jackman | April 16, 2021 | Washington PostThe lack of accounting made it difficult to accurately gauge what has worked and what has not in the decade since offenders were diverted from state prisons to county jails.
California Sent $8 Billion to Counties to Improve Jails and Services But Failed to Track the Money, Says Auditor | by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee | March 26, 2021 | ProPublica
Her destination was Corcoran, California, where Charles Manson is spending his remaining days in a state prison.
Now Garcia is being held on $1 million bond and faces life in state prison if convicted of all three crimes.
Woman Who Says She Was Held Captive for 10 Years Feared Deportation | Caitlin Dickson | May 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe became increasingly angry, drank heavily, and committed a series of assaults that eventually landed him in state prison.
‘Kids for Cash’: Crooked Judge, Damaged Teens, and the Perils of Zero Tolerance | Ronald K. Fried | February 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou mean seeing Ava in jail, and, in the last scene, being sent to state prison?
Kentucky’s Finest Antihero: Walton Goggins on Justified’s Chameleon Villain | Allen Barra | February 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUpon his conviction the 69-year-old was sentenced to between 30 and 60 years in state prison.
As much as two years in state prison could learn me, Larry; though I don't think you need to have asked me.
All He Knew | John HabbertonStill later he was employed in a stone quarry and worked on the building of the state prison.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2) | William Denison LymanHe said that he would have me arrested for fraud and put in the state prison.
I asked what was the possible crime for which he was serving a life term in a state prison.
How to be Happy Though Married | E. J. Hardy.But afterward getting into bad company, he was sentenced to the state prison, and subsequently hanged.
British Dictionary definitions for State prison
(in the US) a prison where persons convicted of serious crimes are confined
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