Sentence examples for major prisons from inspiring English sources

Most states have a prisoner-rights organization headquartered at one of its major prisons.

Many of the major prisons have been liberated but there are hundreds of secret prisons all over the country.

Create a timeline showing important events, such as major prison reforms and the opening and closing of major prisons.

And complicating the families' searches, there are several major prisons and hundreds of smaller jails and bases across Iraq.

As of this week, the military is holding at least 8,900 detainees in the three major prisons, 1,000 more than in late January.

Outside of the three major prisons, about 1,300 detainees are being held at the division or brigade level around the country.

"The idea is to extract those people from the general population". Corrections officials and prisoners agree that California's half-dozen major prison gangs--Nazi Low Riders, Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerrilla Family and several Latino factions--are behind a hefty chunk, though certainly not all, of the trouble in prisons statewide, from stabbings to drug dealing.

Mr. Cate said that the state was "the birthplace for every major prison gang in the country," but that the overcrowding paralyzes wardens from switching prisoners to defuse racial and gang tensions.

It was the second time there has been a major prison break at the Sariposa prison in Kandahar.

The Taliban recently scored both a tactical and a propaganda victory with a major prison break of insurgent fighters.

It was the second attack by militants on a major prison in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province in the past 18 months.