Sentence examples for shape prisons from inspiring English sources

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Few doubt that the correctional system is in terrible shape: prisons are overcrowded, parole and probation officers are overwhelmed, recidivism rates are sky high, prisoners' health and the health of the communities that they return to are endangered, and the costs to run this failed system take up an astronomical amount of funds -- funds that could be spent more wisely elsewhere.

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"How do you stay in such good shape?" "Prison," Gotti, Jr., said, laughing, as the two men hugged.

It is shaped like a letter K because German princess Katherine became Russian tzaritza Katherine the Great, so obedient Russians started to build prisons in the shape of letter K.

Today, when prisoners are older and in worse physical shape, and prison sentences last far longer, prisons are becoming engines of disease.

In the next few years, reintegration programs such as the one at the Kabul juvenile center — which is run by Afghans but bolstered by foreign supporters, including the United States — are expected to take shape at prisons across the country.

I picked up one of the stones, to our guide's alarm, as a souvenir: I have an awful feeling now that they were shaped by prison labour.

It's become the story of our time – London's transformation from a smattering of villages populated by whistling Rastas and rag-and-bone men, to a futurist battlefield of blood-money Bugattis and skyscrapers shaped like prison weapons.

By any measure, Sayre, 120 miles west of Oklahoma City, was in perilous shape before the prison opened.

Mystic rosebushes, miniature prisons, pulpits shaped like a tulip have all blended into a single demented townscape as the years spent wandering happily from place to place now take their mental revenge on me.

He met Piranesi, whose etchings, particularly the grim Carceri (prisons) series shaped the haunted spirit of his manic-depressive imagination for the rest of his life, and four future wealthy clients.

Eastern State Penitentiary shaped the modern prison system.

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