juvenile prison

collocation in English

meaningsofjuvenileandprison

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juvenile
adjective
uk
/ˈdʒuː.vən.aɪl/us
/ˈdʒuː.və.nəl/
lawspecialized
relating to a young person who is not yet old enough to be considered ...
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prison
noun
uk
/ˈprɪz.ən/us
/ˈprɪz.ən/
a building where criminals are forced to live as ...
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(Definition ofjuvenileandprisonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The church has now adopted thejuvenileprison.
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The church in this small town struck up a relationship with the localjuvenileprisonwhere many youngsters aged under 18 are held.
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We are pressing on as quickly as we can but realistically we are unlikely to be in a position to endjuvenileprisonremands before 1995.
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Juveniles who reach the age of 18 while serving a detention and training order will normally remain in thejuvenileprisonestate until their transfer to the community.
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She is given up by her latest foster parents and, because there are not any replacements available, she is put injuvenileprison.
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The actor who played the young hero was found injuvenileprison.
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The trend towards adult adjudication has had implications for the racial make-up of thejuvenileprisonpopulation as well.
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Amero had reportedly been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment and had been injuvenileprisonseveral times, beginning at the age of seven.
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Many of the people in young offenders' institutions and juvenile prisons are there because they have committed crimes related to cars.
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As there are no juvenile prisons, they are to be locked up in the main prisons together with hardened criminals.
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He tells how he grew up in orphanages and juvenile prisons.
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