Sentence examples for prison town from inspiring English sources

It has been a prison town since the 19th century.

P.O.V. Prison Town, USA Tonight on most PBS stations; check local listings.

From rural China to rural America: another top purveyor of documentaries, the PBS series "P.O.V.," offers "PRISON TOWN, U.S.A".

Reacher is hitching a ride on a church-group tour bus when a blizzard blows him into a small prison town in South Dakota.

In one of the exhibition's earliest images, from 2011, an empty, deteriorating home in the state prison town of Calipatria pairs the words "desolation" and "love".

One weekend in May, the search for isolation led promoters to the outskirts of this prison town about 60 miles southwest of Fresno.

First, several upstate communities are prison towns.

Their voting rights are automatically restored when their sentences are completed and most return to their home communities, far from the prison towns.

In prison towns, schools, churches and Little Leagues all depend on the families that have built their livelihoods on the prison economy.

But if the decline becomes a clear trend, hundreds of small, rural prison towns across the country could find themselves confronted by the same unnerving news as Cape Vincent.

Even though the state expects that no one will lose a job if some prisons are closed — there's enough attrition so that it would be possible for any employee to find a job through a transfer — there will be major upheavals in the prison towns.