The phrase "a prison authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an organization or individual that has control or oversight over a prison or correctional facility.
Example: "The new regulations implemented by a prison authority aim to improve the living conditions for inmates."
Alternatives: "correctional authority" or "penal authority".
It then expanded into the administrative vacuum left by a prison authority tangled up in its own bureaucracy.
Other recent customers include a prison authority in Latin America and an intelligence agency in a Nato member country.
The policy is currently the subject of a lawsuit claiming that it discriminates on the basis of sex, but in theory, it seems like a prison authority might have finally gotten something right.
I enjoyed the evening without ever feeling, as I did with Julius Caesar, that the act of putting on a play about rebellion itself posed a threat to an inflexible prison authority.
When the bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a US prison, authorities said Awlaki himself approved and directed the plot from Yemen.
In May 1959, after he'd spent almost four years in a Mexico City prison, authorities refused to extradite him, and set him free.
And it was a cell phone call by a PCC prisoner that alerted prison authorities to an escape plot that involved renting two helicopters, shielding them with bulletproof armor and then hovering over the prison yard to whisk away the PCC leaders.
Periodic hunger-strikes staged by Palestinian prisoners have posed a challenge to prison authorities and have been a political headache for Israel.
The prison authority is helping the organisation co-fund a permanent workshop within the jail.
With the prior consent of the prisoners, the prison authorities were notified of those prisoners diagnosed as having xerophthalmia and advised to supply them with vitamin A supplements.
I have previously stated that, when prison authorities alter a prisoner's conditions of confinement, the relevant question should be whether the prisoner has suffered "a sufficiently 'grievous loss' to trigger the protection of due process". Olim v. Wakinekona, 461 U.S. 238, 252, 103 S.Ct.
