noun
- buildings where people are kept as punishment for crimes or while awaiting trial
Usage: plural of prison
Examples
- The state operates twelve prisons across the region.
- Overcrowding in prisons has become a serious problem.
- Many prisons offer educational programs for inmates.
- Private companies now manage some prisons in the country.
- The government plans to build three new prisons next year.
- Conditions in some prisons have improved significantly.
- Federal prisons house inmates convicted of serious crimes.