the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups
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The treatment stems from the perception that private investments have risks such as a lack of transparency, which raises predatory concerns, as well as higher fees and long lockup periods.—Sarah Min, CNBC, 13 July 2025 CoreCivic runs four private state prisons in Tennessee and has dozens more jails, prisons, reentry centers and federal immigration lockups across the country.—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Whether or not Melendez or any of these men ever walk free, what was once California’s most notorious lockup is now a place that offers them the chance to change and provides the most elusive of emotions for prisoners — hope.—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025 The ostentatious patriarch, 56, and his 52-year-old wife were released from federal lockup in the hours after the president signed off on one of his latest batches of controversial pardons.—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for lockup
: the tactic of arranging with a friendly party an option to buy a valuable portion of one's corporate assets in order to discourage a takeover by another party
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