Sentence examples for control of prisons from inspiring English sources

Before the law was passed, judges who took control of prisons remained in charge until states and cities could prove they had made every required improvement.

He also applauded an agreement to turn over control of prisons that house terrorism suspects from the United States to Afghanistan.

Meanwhile this government, so determined to take back control, is visibly not in control of prisons like Guys Marsh in Dorset, where pictures of inmates apparently enjoying a party escaped from social media to the front of the Daily Mail.

Michael Wines (NYT) THE AMERICAS BRAZIL: PRISON RIOT ENDING -- Riot troops were seizing control of prisons in São Paulo State in a bid to end Brazil's biggest inmate uprising, which left at least 15 dead before more than 7,000 hostages were released, officials said.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Tuesday that he would ask New York State to turn over control of prisons and services for juvenile offenders to local governments, a move that he said would end the failed and costly practice of shipping troubled young people from New York City to upstate facilities far from their families.

Authorities said the riot apparently grew out of a fight between two of the country's biggest gangs over control of prisons and drug routes in northern Brazil.

The motion seeks to halt construction plans and begin moving control of prison health care back to the state.

Cain-Muldrow's allegations are far from uncommon, given the rapidly increasing number of pregnancies, births, and miscarriages that are now occurring under the control of prison industrial complex.

The PCC also control lucrative in-prison drug sales, trafficking of other contraband, control of prison commissary services, and numerous extortion scams that begin with an inmate on a cell phone threatening a civilian on the other side of the wall.

Meanwhile, the DUP's Mr Givan said the Department of Justice and the prison service is at risk of losing control of its prisons.

The Woolf Report was published on 25 February 1991, and blamed the loss of control of the prison on the prison officers abandoning the gates outside the chapel, which "effectively handed the prison to the prisoners".