Sentence examples for building prisons from inspiring English sources

What's sexy is building prisons and flexing your arms while throwing prisoners in jail.

The idea that we can build our way out of this crisis [by building prisons] just doesn't work".

American construction companies with experience in building prisons and military barracks won many of the contracts to build cookie-cutter buildings that look more like fortresses than diplomatic outposts.

Colorado and Illinois are delaying building prisons, and Illinois is cutting education for 25,000 inmates.

Those programs would ultimately cost much less than building prisons, he said.

It's reforming the police, improving the courts, training local civil servants and building prisons.

New York State has spent some $4 billion building prison cells in the past two decades.

Since 2010, there has been a steady increase in allocating funds for the building of prisons, prison personnel, and prison salaries.

Unlike other buildings, prison buildings require constant use of their spaces.

Elected officials responded by passing laws mandating tougher prison sentences and by building new prisons.

"The prison population is basically driven by building of prisons," said Marcus Felson, a professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.