Sentence examples for many prisons are from inspiring English sources

The Prison Governors Association president, Eoin McLennan Murray, said that a lack of staff means "we have to lock prisoners up for more time than we would want to" and "many prisons are having to run restricted regimes".

How many prisons are there in total, I ask Ksenia?

This means that many prisons are not operating at full capacity.

Dementia in prison is an underreported but fast-growing phenomenon, one that many prisons are desperately unprepared to handle.

At the moment, guidelines are determined by a hotch-potch of statute and precedent; the government simply has to build however many prisons are required as a result.

The reason so many prisons are built where they live, they say, is that land is cheap there and the Nimby factor is powerful in New York City and its suburbs.

"The situation in too many prisons is the lack of safety, and the inability to actually get prisoners to education and training poses a real risk to the government's ambitions.

A current favorite at many prisons is "food loaf," an indistinguishable dish, sometimes served as punishment, made from carrots, potatoes, garbanzo beans, cabbage and oatmeal.

The regime in too many prisons is one of idleness, and locking up someone from such a background in idleness virtually guarantees re-offending.

I have direct experience of poor jail conditions, having served a lengthy sentence in the 1960s, when many prisons were run by thugs in uniform and a bread and water diet was on the punishment menu.

That changed when lawyers, often fresh from civil rights battles, began to argue that conditions in many prisons were so horrendous they violated protections against cruel and unusual punishment.