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as in jail
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
the ongoing debate whether drug users should go to prison
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as in captivity
the act of confining or the state of being confined
the view that prison does nothing to cure the criminal—if anything, it makes him worse
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Recent Examples of prison
Barahona said he was handcuffed and sent to prison, with no access to lawyers, no contact with family and no clear sense of the charges against him.
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Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
Eighteen people who were members of several different gangs operating across the tri-county South Florida region have been sentenced to federal prison for drug- and gun-related charges, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
After 24 years in prison, Anderson was released on parole in 2023.
—Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley, CBS News, 4 May 2025
He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 3 May 2025
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Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
Eighteen people who were members of several different gangs operating across the tri-county South Florida region have been sentenced to federal prison for drug- and gun-related charges, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
After 24 years in prison, Anderson was released on parole in 2023.
—Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley, CBS News, 4 May 2025
He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison
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Seven inmates are still at large on May 19 after escaping from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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The attack lands him behind bars, not for the first time, with his seven-month jail stint an interstice covered by the first of Dickinson’s vertiginous reality-break sequences.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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People watch a live broadcast of Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander as he is released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, at a plaza known as the hostages square in Tel Aviv, Monday, May 12, 2025.—
Haley Ott,
CBS News,
12 May 2025
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There are 59 hostages still in Gaza, at least 24 of whom are assessed to be alive, including Alexander, now 21 years old after having spent two birthdays in Hamas captivity.—
Stepheny Price , Yonat Friling,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
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The gallows, where 15 penitentiary inmates were executed by hanging, were no longer there.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
17 May 2025
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Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 2025
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The story is based on Tokuda-Hall’s grandparents, who met at the library in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 May 2025
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The law has been used just three times: in the War of 1812, World War I, and, infamously, in World War II to imprison Japanese-Americans in internment camps — a shameful chapter in our history.—
Juan Vargas,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 May 2025
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Poverty is a pretext for surveillance, over-policing and incarceration.—
Rod Adams,
Essence,
25 May 2025
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Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Warren said Friday that the maximum sentence for wire fraud is 20 years of incarceration, a $250,000 fine and three years on supervised release.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
23 May 2025
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According to the Post, Travis Sr. is currently serving a three-year probation with the first year under home confinement stemming from a 2023 arrest for gun and drug charges.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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He was granted a $250,000 bond with strict conditions, including giving up his state license to practice medicine, paying a $37,500 nonrefundable deposit, confinement to his Brickell Avenue high-rise condo, GPS electronic monitoring and turning over his U.S. and Argentine passports.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Prison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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