Sentence examples for prison purpose from inspiring English sources

The publication in 1608 of Magdalena de San Jerónimo's Razón y Forma de Galera (prison purpose and design) provoked the construction of women's prisons with clearly reformatory purposes.

But none of that is a prison's purpose – those are the conditions that need to be met before anything else can happen.

Closing outdated and expensive prisons is an important step in our strategy to provide a secure and modern, fit for purpose prison estate, while improving efficiency and value for the taxpayer.

There are loads of people in prison whose sole purpose is to provide jokes amid the unrelenting misery.

Either he will remain incarcerated in his current Ila 3-cell unit for sane offenders or he will be shifted to prison's new purpose built facility for the mentally impaired.

His continued imprisonment serves no purpose: prison records demonstrate that he is no threat to himself or others.

Now, I am not saying that confinement police custody, pretrial detention, and jail and prison sentences serves no purpose or should never be used.

Educational programmes adhering to the Swedish curriculum were provided by teachers at the Learning center of Norrtälje Prison, with the purpose of increasing basic skills such as reading, writing and mathematics.

Thanks to repeated defense authorization and omnibus appropriations bills that forbid any federal dollars from being spent on transferring Gitmo prisoners to U.S. soil, closing the facility, or even modifying U.S. prisons for the purpose of housing detainees in the future, the administration is left with a seemingly endless problem.

"I've come to the conclusion that prisons serve no purpose," he said.

In my view, prison serves two purposes, one well and one badly.