adult prison
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadultandprison
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adult
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ʌlt/us/ˈæd.ʌlt/
grown to full size ...
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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 ofadultandprisonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That happens now in theadultprisonsystem.
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A steering group is at present reviewing the role of probation officers inadultprisonestablishments.
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They often have to await allocation to a borstal establishment in an inappropriateadultprison.
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In 1955 the daily averageadultprisonpopulation was 16,943 men and 739 women.
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I dislike the idea of young persons being in anadultprison, however they are segregated.
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The environment in such an institution is probably tougher than in anadultprison.
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The daily cost of keeping a young person in anadultprisonduring 1989–90 was £44.
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Information on the sentencing of juveniles held on remand inadultprisonaccommodation is not collected centrally.
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Children leaving care are 50 times as likely as other children to end up inadultprison.
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This sort of thing creates an environment which is, in many ways, worse than in anadultprison.
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One would then know that they are receiving education and that they would not be in anadultprison.
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Yet under the system we operate they had served a prison sentence, in many cases in a localadultprison.
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He was then again placed in anadultprison.
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Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to announce today that no more children will be going to anadultprison.
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They will have to face up to the fact that a 15 or 16 year-old is in a very secureadultprison.
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The prison was then re-classified as anadultprisonin 1991.
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We regard that as important when one considers that the alternative to that guarantee is for the juvenile to be incarcerated in a localadultprison.
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These include a juvenile offender not being forced to serve time in anadultprison, or with adult prisoners.
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After the war it continued to function as anadultprison, and later became a juvenile detention center in 1963.
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In any event, they only separated three of more than a dozen detainees under 16 from theadultprisonpopulation.
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It is of particular concern, first, that a youngster of this age should be in anadultprisonand, secondly, that, given his history, he was not under supervision.
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I cannot think that any court passing a custodial sentence on a 15-year old would intend that he should be dumped by the prison- department in anadultprison.
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Equally, where there has not been a suitable place for the child to be kept in remand, he has been remanded in anadultprisonwhich is even more disastrous.
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