The phrase "attack on a prison" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing incidents involving violence or assaults targeting a prison facility.
Example: "The news reported an attack on a prison that resulted in several inmates escaping."
Alternatives: "assault on a prison" or "strike against a prison".
In seeking the execution of Mr. Mohamed, the prosecutors, Patrick J. Fitzgerald and Michael J. Garcia, also presented evidence that he had participated with another prisoner in an attack on a prison guard in the federal jail in Lower Manhattan Nov. 1.
Ethnic rebels in northern Myanmar staged a deadly attack on a prison convoy, state news media reported Friday, highlighting one of the country's violence-plagued corners days before President Obama's historic visit.
Also today, 52 prisoners and nine policemen were killed in an attack on a prison bus travelling from Taji to Baghad, police sources told VICE News.
Then the Taliban freed 1,200 inmates in a brazen attack on a prison in the southern city of Kandahar.
Meanwhile prison chiefs have linked an attack on a prison guard to the soldier's murder and warned staff of an increased risk of threats, according to reports.
He has been the voice of Boko Haram's most violent faction since its first attack on a prison, in the north-eastern state of Bauchi, in 2010.
The relative calm -- interrupted today by the shooting of an Israeli Arab at a checkpoint and a grenade attack on a Palestinian prison in Gaza -- has raised the prospect of ending nearly 34 months of fighting.
A brazen attack on a Swiss prison has broken out another member of the "Pink Panthers" ring of jewel thieves and a fellow inmate, spurring a massive manhunt in western Switzerland and across the border with France, Swiss authorities said Friday.
The agency's description of the plan to stage suicide attacks inside the Pul-i-Charki prison, and at the prison gate, followed a Taliban attack in June on a prison in Kandahar that freed almost 900 prisoners, about 400 of them Taliban fighters.
An American former correctional officer serving with the United Nations mission in Kosovo was in critical condition on Sunday, a day after an attack on a group of prison guards, most of them Americans, by a Jordanian policeman also serving with the United Nations mission here.
At least four people have been killed and 30 injured in a militant attack on a court and prison complex in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
