Prison ˈprɪzn Escaped Maximum Security People Noun Bre Years

• he was sent to prison for five years.
• she is in prison, awaiting trial.
• to be released from prison
• a maximum-security prison

prison

1. a building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime they have committed, or while they are waiting for trial
• synonym jail
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• He was sent to prison for five years.
• She is in prison, awaiting trial.
• to be released from prison
• a maximum-security prison
• the prison population (= the total number of prisoners in a country)
• the problem of overcrowding in prisons
• Ten prison officers and three inmates needed hospital treatment following the riot.
• When do the children finish school?
• I’ll meet you outside the school.
• Her husband spent three years in prison.
2. the system of keeping people in prisons
• the prison service/system
• The government insists that ‘prison works’ and plans to introduce a tougher sentencing policy for people convicted of violent crime.
3. a place or situation from which somebody cannot escape
• His hospital room had become a prison.

Extra Examples

• A dangerous criminal has escaped from a maximum-security prison.
• Building new prisons is not going to help lower our incarceration rate.
• He was immediately seized and thrown into prison.
• He went to prison for tax evasion.
• How long has her father been in prison?
• It is one of several companies running private prisons across Britain.
• Open prisons prepare prisoners for life back in the community.
• She was sent to prison for leaking state secrets.
• She was told by magistrates she could now face prison.
• The police are investigating disturbances at the prison.
• There have been riots in the prison.
• When did he get out of prison?
• You only escaped prison because of your previous good character.
• You only escaped prison= escaped being sent to prison because of your previous good character.
• She is serving a 20-month sentence at an open prison.
• Since 1990, the US prison population has almost doubled.
• prison guards

Word Origin

• late Old English, from Old French prisun, from Latin prensio(n-), variant of prehensio(n-) ‘laying hold of’, from the verb prehendere.