prison time

noun

: the time someone spends in prison

Examples of prison time in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Prosecutors asked the judge to send Diamantis to prison for 10 to 12 years, while Pattis argued in court documents for a sentence that included no prison time but strict conditions of release. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026

The defense argued that few defendants prosecuted in the nursing-school cases had voluntarily surrendered anything approaching that amount and that Singhal should consider the payment in deciding how much prison time to impose. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026

Paul Gerardi, 69, was sentenced during a hearing in New Britain Superior Court where a judge ordered that a probation violation could expose him to as many as 12 ½ additional years of prison time. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026

Mishandling human remains should be a felony with real prison time. — Susana Mendoza, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

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