0 a place where criminals are kept as a punishment -- cárcel
1 a place criminals are kept to be punished -- prisión [ feminine, singular ]
Parts of me stayed in prison.
Thirdly, civil administration; increasing capacity in various ministries and in the prison system.
If a new concrete prison is built, this time devoid of windows, we have, to say the least, a problem.
The first is that we should give more importance to alternative penalties to prison.
We tried to visit them in prison but were not allowed in.
The situation in these prisons is indescribable.
They are now serving 20 years in prison.
Prisoners sentenced to caning are detained in prison without any idea of when their punishment will be carried out.
