Sentence examples for local prisons from inspiring English sources

That is because the per-diem per prisoner in local prisons is half that of state prisons.

On arrival in local prisons, 70-80% of prisoners test positive for Class A drugs.

Lifers at state prisons can learn to be welders, plumbers or auto mechanics — trades many will never practice as free men — while prisoners housed in local prisons, and are certain to be released, gain no skills and leave jail with nothing more than "$10 and a bus ticket".

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, there are currently 2,245,189 prisoners held in Federal, State or local prisons.

He says that too many prisoners had felt victimised by staff and other prisoners: "Recorded levels of assaults on prisoners and staff were more than double that at other local prisons but the level of fights was similar.

They maintain contacts with education officers in local prisons.

Now 40, he was being held prisoner in the local prison.

Manchester's Strangeways Prison, which opened in 1868, was a "local prison" designed to hold prisoners from the surrounding area, mainly those on remand or serving sentences of less than five years.

Birmingham is a very busy local prison and sadly we do see prisoners coming to us with significant drug problems, which have often developed over many years.

Wandsworth – a category B local prison built in 1851 – can hold 1,665 prisoners and is one of the largest in Europe.

That means that on almost a daily basis, local prison officials are on the phones bartering for prisoners with overcrowded jails in the big cities.