as in jails
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
were amazed by the squalid, cramped quarters in the town's historic bastille
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The goal is to eventually close the island to incarcerated individuals in a decarceration plan, replacing it with four other jails in Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn.
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The borough jails won't be ready and Rikers' current population of about 6,700 inmates surpasses the 4,100-bed capacity of the new facilities.
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This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.
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Behind bars in state penitentiaries in Gatesville and Marlin, Mejia felt forgotten.
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There were also provisions in the main budget bill (HB 5001E) that tied $91 million in pay increases for corrections officers to the approval of the prisons bill, so those salary hikes are also nixed.
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Tampons and pads also are limited in many prisons, and Sellars said some women are left with no choice but to openly bleed.
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Boomers stayed in the workforce longer than expected, retired later, and held on to big houses as starter homes disappeared beneath them.
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However, a lot of big houses have been built on smallish lots.
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“Bastilles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bastilles. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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