Sentence examples for it was prison on from inspiring English sources
It was prison on prime downtown property, where gang leaders roamed free on the top floor as peons suffered below in tiny cells with useless toilets.
As it is, prison on French soil can end up radicalising inmates, undermining anti-terrorism efforts.
"After all, it's prison," he said (although on one occasion, his wife brought him some chicken wings from a vending machine in the building).
It was in prison on Rikers Island that Mr. Portee helped found New York's version of the Bloods, and, not surprisingly, there is no shortage of law enforcement officials who insist that Mr. Portee's pledge to turn the Bloods into an outfit devoted to political and cultural solidarity be regarded with the deepest skepticism.
On Alcatraz it was a prison cell.
When I made my way to New York City in early 1984 after doing a short stint in Connecticut, (I call it a stint 'cause it was like prison), I took a sublet on Mott Street just north of Houston.
When the UK signed up to arrangements whereby British prisoners convicted in foreign countries could be sent home to serve most of their sentences in British prisons, it was on the understanding that foreign convictions would not be open to question and reassessment here.
It was big news on the prison block.
Self Mutilation KILLER CUTS OFF HIS OWN DICK TO RESEMBLE 'EGYPTIAN SERPENT GOD' It was stitched back on by prison doctors afterwards.
Fela: [Kirikiri] is one of the toughest prisons, but it was not tough on me.
Better known as Carandiru, it was once the largest prison on the continent.
