The phrase "a prison system" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the structure, organization, or functioning of prisons within a particular jurisdiction or country.
Example: "The report highlighted the flaws in a prison system that prioritizes punishment over rehabilitation."
Alternatives: "correctional system" or "penal system."
In short, we need a prison system that doesn't see prisoners as simply liabilities to be managed, but instead as potential assets to be harnessed".
The problem is that only 15,000 people paid the co-pay in 2014, out of a prison system that averages more than 150,000 prisoners every year.
The state defended a prison system with two doctors for every 17,000 prisoners, where 2,000 inmates slept on the floor and where inmate trustees, known as building tenders, essentially ran the cell blocks through coercion.
But in a prison system built to punish young criminals, older prisoners are often denied proper healthcare and end of life palliative care plans.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in a 5-to-4 decision that broke along ideological lines, described a prison system that failed to deliver minimal care to prisoners with serious medical and mental health problems and produced "needless suffering and death".
"Let's develop a prison system that makes money by being filled with prisoners.
Whether Grayling, the media or the public like it, it is widely accepted that a prison system cannot be run without the co-operation of its prisoners.
Unlike other prisoners, M. actually had a family of some means, and in a prison system without uniforms, his style often seemed more appropriate for an indie rock club.
"But the immigration detention system is a prison system.
"Every 30 days his status gets reviewed," a prison system spokeswoman, Linda Foglia, said last week.
The play is also implicitly critical of a prison system that prioritises retribution over rehabilitation.
