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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a prisons" is not correct in written English.
It is incorrect because "prisons" is a plural noun and should not be preceded by the singular article "a."
Example: "The government is investing in a prison system that focuses on rehabilitation."
Alternatives: "a correctional facility" or "a detention center."
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The former justice secretary's plan for a secure college for young offenders, a ban on books for prisoners, outsourcing the enforcement of court fines and a prisons training contract with Saudi Arabia have all been scrapped.
These included an end to "slopping out", whereby prisoners had to urinate and defecate in buckets in their cell; the appointment of a prisons ombudsman; and the introduction of telephones on landings so prisoners could keep in closer touch with their families.
The government has designated a prisons ombudsman since 1993 to monitor conditions and recommend prison reforms.
The justice secretary denies there is a prisons crisis, but what else should one call it?
Yet ministers have their fingers in their ears, and carry on denying there's a prisons crisis.
Yet ministers have their fingers in their ears, and carry on denying there's a prisons crisis," he said.
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A bigger prison is still a prison".
"We're in a prison".
Hungary was like a prison.
It's like a prison.
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