noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prison population (=the number of people in prisons in a country or area)
▪ A quarter of the prison population is under 21.
a prison riot
▪ The prison riots were caused by bad physical conditions and poor security.
a prison/jail sentence (also a custodial sentence British Englishformal)
▪ If found guilty, he faces a long jail sentence.
a prison/jail term
▪ He faced a maximum prison term of 25 years.
a school/prison/club etc rule
▪ He had broken one of the school rules.
cast sb into prison/Hell etc
▪ Memet should, in her opinion, be cast into prison.
minimum security prison
open prison
prison camp
prison governor
▪ the prison governor
prison guards
▪ The prison guards were reasonably friendly.
prison visitor
prison/school yard (=an area outside a prison or school where prisoners or students do activities outdoors)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
▪ Heber is serving his three-year term in a federal prison in Bastrop, Texas.
▪ Postal investigators recovered the letter at about 6: 30 a. m. Friday morning at a post office outside Leavenworth federal prison.
▪ We open in familiar Grisham territory, in a low-security federal prison.
▪ Former longtime President Peter MacDonald is serving a 14-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of riot charges in 1992.
▪ In 1995, their civil suits were among the more than 40, 000 filed in federal courts by prison inmates.
▪ McVeigh is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at a federal prison in Terre Haute.
▪ Doctors and insurance companies faced federal fines and prison time for violating the rules.
▪ Two were sent to the federal prison and another was found in the postal system.
long
▪ Just one letter from Tyndale survives from his long period in prison.
▪ While she does not want to die, neither does she want to endure a long life in prison.
▪ The government responded to these incidents with considerable brutality, sentencing those involved to long prison terms.
▪ Since then, both men have been sentenced to long prison terms for attempted bank robbery in Los Angeles.
▪ He doesn't deserve to be facing a long prison sentence.
▪ A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery.
▪ And he waited far too long in prison for a place to be made available in hospital.
maximum
▪ It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet.
▪ A lesser finding of manslaughter carries a maximum 20-year prison term.
▪ He was due to be sentenced on Oct. 1, and faced a maximum prison term of 28 years.
▪ If prosecutors win guilty verdicts, they could ask for maximum prison terms.
▪ Each count carried a five-year maximum prison sentence.
open
▪ Goulais is now in an open prison, where he enjoys special treatment.
▪ If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish.
▪ She was picked up outside the gates of Askham Grange open prison near York by her son and daughter.
▪ Voice over Open prisons like Leyhill house offenders who are coming to the end of their sentences.
▪ He should have returned to the open prison on the tenth of August.
▪ Visits to Parliament and an open prison have given them insights into less accessible subjects.
▪ Male speaker That's what open prisons are all about.
▪ Successful inmates can hope to move back to a lower category C security, or even a Category D open prison.
■ NOUN
camp
▪ I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.
▪ In prison camps, cigarettes frequently reach that status.
▪ The Government has also agreed that the men could be used to escort detainees released from prison camps.
▪ This is nothing like the bucolic prison camp where his half-sister Carmella is held.
▪ A writer and poet, he had spent 25 years in prison camps, being released in 1990.
▪ Generally, short hair is associated in the public mind with convicts, prison camp inmates and the military.
▪ People don't go out and spend millions turning their homes into prison camps unless there is real fear in the air.
▪ Holly built a castle, a castle on an island, a castle on an island that is a prison camp.
cell
▪ Kaczynski was scheduled to begin seven days of mental tests Saturday in his Dublin prison cell.
▪ More than a dozen activists have locked themselves inside a mock prison cell they put up outside the federal Interior Ministry here.
▪ It wasn't like a prison cell, it-was like a maid's room, Eve told herself firmly.
▪ They are part of a nationwide operation which has cost millions of pounds after the disturbances which destroyed hundreds of prison cells.
▪ Nadia's winning work in her age-group showed a prison cell with doors thrown open, depicting freedom.
▪ It had only one room, and one window, which was heavily barred, like a prison cell.
▪ The cell where he was held was, like a prison cell in a spaghetti western, built of mud.
▪ They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now.
governor
▪ The prison Governor says he was in a disturbed state.
▪ Catering responsibilities for the prison lie with Mike Lamb, a prison governor whose title is G5 Caterer.
▪ Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor.
▪ The names of certain prison governors whose personal positive qualities permeated every aspect of their prisons tend to be long remembered.
▪ The Home Secretary said that he had found prison governors who were in favour of the Bill.
▪ The jail trip prize has been offered by prison governor Robin Halward.
▪ But the prison governor insists the correct procedures were followed.
▪ The situation has prompted the prison governor to take the unusual step of refusing to accept any more remand prisoners.
guard
▪ Most of the prison guards ran away, with the prisoners.
▪ Since I was the only child in the jail, the prison guards were nice to me.
▪ At one stage, the prison guards went on strike, claiming the prisoners were better armed than them.
▪ After 75 days of being brutalized and sexually assaulted by other inmates and ignored by the prison guards, Rodney hanged himself.
officer
▪ It is worth stressing that all of this teaching is done by the prisoners themselves rather than by prison officers.
▪ He was one of a handful of men trusted to work unsupervised - a mistake say prison officers.
▪ Then the prison officers put a black cloth over the condemned man's head.
▪ It is staffed by prison officers and nurses and the discipline and medical roles often conflict.
▪ McLeod, 27, was discovered by prison officers hanging from a bed sheet attached to a window bar.
▪ But prison officers say it would be impossible to enforce.
▪ The victims have been a prison officer and three Roman Catholic civilians, one of them a woman.
official
▪ There is evidence that a senior prison official received a copy of the committal order on Form N111 on 3 July 1992.
▪ A top prison official ordered the contract approved without competitive bids and went to work for VitaPro several months later.
▪ She said prison officials had been responding to complaints about pigeon droppings from employees and inmates.
▪ But McQuay was released directly from the psychiatric prison and driven to the San Antonio lockup by prison officials.
▪ Also in December, prison official Larry Kyle helped Barry iron out a visa problem.
▪ None the less, prison officials say, they have to become more creative in working with Texas felons.
▪ Later, Cyrus and Poe must stop Johnny from raping a female prison official whom the prisoners have taken hostage.
population
▪ The main reason for the huge prison population is the fashion for severe and mandatory sentencing.
▪ The average prison population of 48,600 thus represented an average overcrowding of 8 percent.
▪ The prison population represents the single highest concentration of adult illiterates.
▪ Financially, the programme depends on savings gained from reducing the prison population.
▪ Unfortunately however, such a policy would also have the effect of increasing the already excessive prison population by an enormous extent.
▪ But there is no mechanical relationship between the level of crime and the size of the prison population.
▪ Howard protested about overcrowding in conditions of a more or less stable prison population.
security
▪ It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet.
▪ A woman manager at Long Lartin top security prison has been suspended after reports that she had a relationship with an inmate.
sentence
▪ Of these, 4,300 were tried and received prison sentences, and the rest were released.
▪ The boys received an indefinite prison sentence.
▪ Whilst I was in Holloway, my probation officer sorted out something to try and stop me getting a prison sentence.
▪ On Tuesday, Symington vetoed a bill that would have allowed judges to increase prison sentences for hate crimes.
▪ He had already served a prison sentence in New Zealand.
▪ Former longtime President Peter MacDonald is serving a 14-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of riot charges in 1992.
▪ Name the doctor given a suspended prison sentence for the attempted murder of a dying patient. 4.
▪ It comes with a possible two-year prison sentence and a $ 200, 000 fine.
service
▪ Derek Lewis, prison service director general, said Wymott was now stable and the governor and staff were in control.
▪ That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected.
▪ We also need people prepared to write, as pen-friends, to warders and other officials in the prison service.
▪ Yet he chose to keep it secret and blamed officers of the prison service for what happened.
▪ The police, probation and prison services have the information families need, and they generally have the opportunity to impart it.
▪ Officers speak freely and openly about being in the prison service and at Holloway and so too do the prisoners.
▪ The prison service will be able to bid against private firms to decide who runs it.
▪ The growing number of life sentence prisoners has been a considerable problem for the prison service for some years now.
staff
▪ These were intercepted by a trustee prisoner working in the mail room, who removed them before prison staff examined the post.
▪ The prison staff member will then begin to administer lethal doses of three chemicals.
▪ The prison staff say they have a difficulty with dealing with troublesome prisoners being sent from other jails.
▪ And prison staff may become restless.
▪ A police officer also discounted speculation that the attack was linked to threats against prison staff.
▪ The system will also suffer severe difficulties if it lacks legitimacy with its own employees, including prison staff and probation officers.
▪ At 8am police officers, accompanying prison staff, tried to enter the centre but were met by a hail of stones.
▪ If the Court of Appeal orders their release it will not surprise many prison staff.
state
▪ Most prisoners are badly tortured and forced to sign unread confessions' before they are passed to the state prison.
▪ Staley is serving a 15-to 25-year state prison sentence for stalking his ex-girlfriend.
▪ Our small town serves an agricultural county which has a state forest and a state prison.
▪ Bacon was sentenced to 12 years and remains in the state prison system.
▪ He faces death by the electric chair in Florida state prison.
▪ Deer Lodge is the home of the state prison.
▪ Upchurch served 13 months of a two-year sentence before being released from state prison last spring.
▪ Calderon had escaped from state prison.
system
▪ After these experiences they set out to rebuild the prison system, from the perspective of prisoners turned gaolers.
▪ The prison system became, by default, a major enforcer of repression.
▪ These mainly constructive changes in penal policy were not matched by changes within the prison system.
▪ None of those options would exist in the adult prison system, and he would be particularly vulnerable to brutalisation.
▪ It almost certainly means they must counter those forces within the prison system which have a vested interest in expansion.
▪ As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.
▪ But Brady is no longer in the prison system, having been transferred to Ashworthin 1985.
▪ Collins is not related to former prison system executive director Andy Collins.
term
▪ They were sentenced to short prison terms and assessed fines.
▪ Both the defence and the prosecution said that they would appeal against the sentence; prosecutors had sought a 10-year prison term.
▪ If prosecutors win guilty verdicts, they could ask for maximum prison terms.
▪ An estimated 8,500 other prisoners - most of the remaining prison population - also benefited from reductions in their prison terms.
▪ Sentences included prison terms of up to seven years and a total of $ 17, 000 in fines.
▪ Two earlier suspended sentences for similar offences also came into force, extending Honsik's prison term to a potential three years.
▪ They received prison terms and were ordered to pay restitution.
warder
▪ One of the prison warders, he said, had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released.
▪ Daantjie Siebert, told the prison warder that Biko had studied medicine and yoga and was probably faking his injuries.
▪ They say the most likely way the keys were smuggled out was by a prison warder rather than an inmate to a visitor.
▪ They're the bottom of the professional heap, somewhere between nurses and prison warders.
■ VERB
build
▪ In reality, the new prison is built and the old prison remains.
▪ They build a prison and put the people inside it.
▪ In keeping with the tradition of doing things in a big way, the Texas authorities have always built large prisons.
▪ Governor Bush has made his mark building prisons, toughening laws on juvenile crime and calling for lower property taxes.
▪ The state built 10 prisons from the opening of San Quentin in 1852 until the middle of the last decade.
▪ Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin has said he will not build any more prisons.
escape
▪ John's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times.
▪ By learning and practicing the basics, Dan had escaped the prison of his handicap for ever.
▪ Colin Wood escaped from prison in 1994 and spent three years on the run before he was tracked down in Alabama.
▪ Calderon had escaped from state prison.
▪ He escaped a prison sentence after magistrates heard he was seeking help for his drink problem.
▪ Light leaped out through the door, escaped from prison at 186, 000 miles per second.
▪ Each of them had attempted to escape from another prison at least once.
face
▪ Voice over Anyone considering selling counterfeit goods at car boot sales could face two years in prison or unlimited fines.
▪ Sergeant demoted, facing prison term Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
▪ Now he faced years in prison.
▪ Doctors and insurance companies faced federal fines and prison time for violating the rules.
▪ He doesn't deserve to be facing a long prison sentence.
▪ If convicted by the three-judge panel of premeditated murder, Amir faces life in prison.
▪ If convicted of the charge he could face a prison sentence of six years.
▪ Without the plea, Grammer faced 20 years in prison.
go
▪ Then I went to prison and they made the baby a ward of court without telling me.
▪ He recounted the many contact visits Craig paid before she went to prison.
▪ Hubbell went to prison for 18 months and is now out on parole.
▪ When Mohibullah went to prison I was so upset I thought about giving up squash completely.
▪ After breakfast the male inmates went outside to the prison yard for exercises, which included jumping over long bamboo sticks.
▪ Then she went to the prison to see Sarah.
▪ Liddy, 66, went to prison for more than four years for his part in the Watergate burglary.
hold
▪ Attica is a sleepy, up-state village that holds the largest maximum-security prison in New York State.
▪ Relatively, more black people were held in secure prisons.
▪ Nichols is being held at a federal prison in the Denver suburbs.
▪ Checkpoints can turn into ambushes, and thousands have disappeared, presumed killed or held in prison.
▪ One is being held in prison, the other in a Youth institution in Dublin.
put
▪ The strike comes after the Home Office put thousands of prison jobs out to tender.
▪ He was arrested twice and put in special prisons for lepers.
▪ All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.
▪ They're going to put you in prison.
▪ I believe he was conspiring against me to put me in prison.
▪ Who has put the people in prison?
▪ Seriously mentally disordered people should not be put in prison.
receive
▪ Sadly, the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison.
▪ The boys received an indefinite prison sentence.
▪ She received a three-year prison sentence and was fined $ 1, 500.
▪ They received prison terms and were ordered to pay restitution.
▪ He could face additional charges and, if convicted, receive a prison sentence, sources said.
▪ In February, Baldwin received a 1-year prison term.
▪ Two weeks ago, Harrison received a 10-month prison sentence.
release
▪ Krishna Sen, the first editor to be jailed, was released from prison three months ago after serving a two-year sentence.
▪ Aunt Bella had been released on bail from prison.
▪ Postscriptum: I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present.
▪ Upchurch served 13 months of a two-year sentence before being released from state prison last spring.
▪ On 6 July, Price was released from prison in this country.
▪ Recently released from prison, Hubbell is once again under investigation by Starr, this time for allegedly accepting hush money.
▪ Some 3,000 protestors were released from prison that day and the curfew was lifted.
▪ With time already served, Williams' attorney calculated that his client could be released from prison in March 1999.
send
▪ If she really wanted she could get him sent to prison.
▪ It took months, but police found the killer and sent him to prison.
▪ I might even be sent to prison.
▪ They were going to send him to prison.
▪ Many of those who have been sent to prison rely on income support alone.
▪ Two were sent to the federal prison and another was found in the postal system.
▪ They say that too many sick people are being sent to prison again and again instead of being treated.
▪ Most of the Communists left with the Red Army, but some were sent to prison.
serve
▪ Yerkes had been an embezzler in the United States and had served a prison sentence.
▪ On the other, persons who serve prison sentences need to be able to get a job and participate in society.
▪ During the next eight years Christie served a number of prison sentences for theft and, on one occasion, assault.
▪ Newton was released after serving two years in prison.
▪ But today, even after her conviction and serving her prison sentence, the Baroness insists she did nothing wrong.
▪ He will now start serving a nine-year prison term.
▪ Prosecutors defended the 1992 trial, which left Tyson behind bars serving a prison term of up to six years.
▪ Former longtime President Peter MacDonald is serving a 14-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of riot charges in 1992.
spend
▪ The paratroop officer failed and spent two years in prison, then slowly began to build his platform for government.
▪ Officials earlier this week said Guzman, who is still at large, spent months corrupting prison guards for the escape.
▪ A writer and poet, he had spent 25 years in prison camps, being released in 1990.
▪ After embezzling funds he spent time in prison in the 80s.
▪ He spent 21 months in prison before the prisoner exchange in Berlin, 35 years ago next Monday.
▪ In California they spend more money on prisons than education.
▪ He soon became a Republican, and he finally spent time in prison for income tax evasion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clap sb in prison/jail/irons
fling sb in/into prison/jail
▪ After the revolution, opposition leaders were flung into jail.
model prison/farm/school etc
▪ A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
▪ Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
▪ The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
▪ The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
▪ There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
▪ Wave of unrest hits model prison.
prison/labour/detention etc camp
▪ A forced labour camp, they call it.
▪ All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.
▪ Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp.
▪ I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.
▪ More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
▪ Of these, 55,000 were to be punished either by receiving prison sentences or by being sent to labour camps.
▪ The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles.
▪ Then he was chosen, with another senior officer, to run the Athi River Detention Camp.
throw sb in/into prison/jail
▪ Diem threw them all into jail.
▪ Gabriel had broken his apprentice's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison.
▪ Her father threw her into prison for her treachery to him.
▪ Leyland fired one off the bar, and the police threw him in jail overnight.
▪ She had heard the cops on Plenty didn't even bother throwing you in jail.
▪ She was going to hit him, even if they threw her in jail again.
▪ They throw a baby into prison.
▪ What is more, if people resort to blackmail and other threats, why not throw them into jail?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Prison is an expensive and inefficient way to deal with social problems.
▪ a fifteen-year prison sentence
▪ a maximum security prison
▪ Clayton will be released on Tuesday after serving seven years, prison officials said.
▪ Conditions in the prison were shocking.
▪ Johnson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.
▪ The prosecuting lawyers say that Price may face life in prison.
▪ When he was released from prison, Mandela was interviewed in Zambia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But that issue quickly faded when the prison got built in Eloy.
▪ He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban.
▪ Over half of the four hundred thousand people in our prisons are black.
▪ The prison doctor refused unless she agreed to drink a cup of tea and eat a piece of bread and butter.
▪ The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
▪ The instruments for punishing prison rioters were already available and the offence was unnecessary.
▪ Then she went to the prison to see Sarah.