prison reform
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprisonandreform
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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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reform
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈfɔːm/us/rɪˈfɔːrm/
an improvement, especially in a person's behaviour or in the structure ...
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(Definition ofprisonandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These discourses of crime and deviance strongly emerged in the debates aroundprisonreform.
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Another may beprisonreform.
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I am no expert onprisonreform.
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Is the resultant overcrowding hinderingprisonreform?
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Unhappily,prisonreformis not a popular rallying call.
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That is the greatest obstacle now toprisonreform.
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Prisonreformand change will not be easy.
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I intend to press ahead withprisonreform.
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I welcome the possibility of new legislation onprisonreform.
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I wantprisonreformto be pressed on with.
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Prisonreformis another significant area of cooperation.
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The call forprisonreformwas part of a much wider search for innovative social policies during the post-war crisis.
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Moreover, the internal regimen which it prescribed vastly exceeded the absolutely minimal standards of conduct required by the threeprisonreformacts of 1773 and 1774.
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Do they think that their radical programme forprisonreformis being impaired?
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Without their settlement, there is little hope of any serious advance inprisonreform.
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That is something of a different order from criminal justice andprisonreform.
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Meanwhile, let us press on with our policy ofprisonreformwhich is undoubtedly producing results.
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If he could empty the women's prisons, it would be a splendid advance inprisonreform.
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We have heard a great many interesting speeches upon the question ofprisonreform.
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Therefore, credit for so-calledprisonreformhas been widely spread.
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Anybody who is interested inprisonreformought to read that work.
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I recognise as much as he does, the need for a good deal ofprisonreform.
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It is the beginning of the next step ofprisonreform.
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The biggest problem associated withprisonreformis to provide security.
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If he will make a statement on his priorities for tacklingprisonreform.
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