prison official
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprisonandofficial
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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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official
adjective
uk/əˈfɪʃ.əl/us/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
relating to a position ...
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(Definition ofprisonandofficialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They will sign a consent form, witnessed by aprisonofficial.
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Twenty-six candidates were placed on the short leet and of these seven had previousprisonofficialexperience.
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Theprisonofficialwho told the story said that as this man was a saint it did him no real harm and that he left prison unem-bittered.
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Many prison officials agreed that, as long as security confinement had not become law, ' incorrigible ' inmates should at least be excluded from most benefits.
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But such policies were not fully implemented in other prisons, not least because of resistance by local prison officials.
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Under the veneer of scientific objectivity, the examinations were largely determined by the prejudices of the prison officials.
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This was deeply resented by many local prison officials.
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Where a legislature refuses to fund a prison adequately, the resulting barbaric conditions should not be immune from constitutional scrutiny simply because noprisonofficialacted culpably....
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Most local prison officials reacted to the unrest in the only way they knew : even minor disturbances were answered with extreme brutality.
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I have not found any documents concerning cases of violence committed by prison officials against the prisoners.
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This approach was very much in line with the wishes of many local prison officials.
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Magistrates and prison officials had to deal with 'ordinary ', rank-and-file suffragettes who were often first offenders.
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Prison officials were particularly inclined to write off those inmates who had most manifestly failed to conform to the moral, political, and social values of bourgeois society.
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This man used to shave the prison officials, and yet he was confined there for twenty-four years.
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I have great respect for the prison officials.
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It is not only the right thing to do, but it is the duty of the prison officials to perform these two functions.
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