Sentence examples for down the prison from inspiring English sources

"In the autumn, and as an operational response to rising levels of violence, the prison had taken the unusual step of effectively locking down the prison, severely curtailing the regime and in particular prisoner access to time unlocked," the inspectors' report said.

The move to lock down the prison happened in the autumn because the previous regime that saw all prisoners unlocked for most of the day had led to an "unacceptably high" level of assaults.

I suppose that's yet another way of bringing down the prison population.

Without question, any effort he might make to shut down the prison would be met with resistance in Congress; it's already begun.

The President said he would "keep working to shut down the prison … it's expensive, it's unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies".

Unfortunately, before the guards can take all their new found loot, the guards wake up and shut down the prison, with Santa shooting off quickly.

The American, Nyi Nyi Aung, a naturalized citizen who has spent two decades campaigning for democracy in his native Myanmar, formerly Burma, will be allowed to serve the three prison terms concurrently, cutting down the actual prison time to three years.

"I never turned them down -- the prison strike, the weather upstate," he said.

Partly that's down to the prison system, but it's also the result of a much better welfare system.

Other Mara 18 members, who had surrendered, were beaten or stabbed as they lay face down in the prison yard, the report said.

Compounding the confusion, his lawyer "contradicted what he called false reports in Egypt's state-run media that the imprisoned former president had nearly died, insisting that Mr. Mubarak simply fell down in the prison bathroom," my colleagues David Kirkpatrick and Kareem Fahim report.