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Plural
prisons
1
a building where people who did something illegal, such as stealing, murder, etc., are kept as a punishment
- He was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in the robbery.
- The prison is surrounded by high walls and barbed wire fences.
- She visited her brother regularly while he was serving his sentence in prison.
- They implemented rehabilitation programs to help inmates reintegrate into society after their release from prison.
- She wrote letters to her family from prison, expressing her love and longing for them.
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2
a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
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