Sentence examples for prison containing from inspiring English sources

The prison containing death row, where there are 443 condemned people, is in Livingston, 40 miles away.

When the city state became independent in 1929, the it opened a small prison containing just three cells.

On 1 April, the prison contained 1,647 prisoners – about 925 convicted adult prisoners, 500 remand prisoners and 210 convicted young offenders.

As religious laws against Catholics increased, the castle became used as a prison from 1580 onwards; by 1600 the castle prison contained 40 prisoners, Roman Catholic priests and recusants.

The number of prisoners held in the Bastille at any one time declined sharply towards the end of Louis's reign; the prison contained ten prisoners in September 1782 and, despite a mild increase at the beginning of 1788, by July 1789 only seven prisoners remained in custody.

That is the case in many dictatorships where police, courts and prison contain people who have not violated any other legal norms except criticising the government.

The prison contains an attractive storm giantess.

The basement of Alcatraz prison contained dungeons and the showers.

The drinking water pumped from two wells at Kern Valley State Prison contained arsenic, a known cause of cancer, in amounts far higher than a federal safety standard soon to take effect.

He knows that most of that energy has been sparked by opposition to his idea of supersize prisons containing 2,500 places apiece, but he takes it as a backhanded compliment that he has kickstarted a vital debate over the impact of ever lengthening sentences on the prison population.

Of course, not all prisons contain the squalid cells and enforced idleness found at Brinsford.