0 a building where criminals are forced to live as a punishment -- 監獄
Conditions in the prison are said to be appalling. 聽說監獄裡的條件糟透了。
It was a maximum-security prison (= intended to be especially difficult to escape from). 這是一所戒備森嚴的監獄。
They should put him in prison and throw away the key! 他們應該把他關進監獄，永遠也別放出來！
the prison system 監獄制度
Prison (= the time he had spent in prison) hadn't changed him at all. 服刑對他絲毫沒有改變。
She felt that her marriage had become a prison. 她覺得自己的婚姻變成了牢籠。
He was sent to a high-security prison.
If you spend any time in prison, you're labelled as a criminal for the rest of your life.
The release from prison of two of the terrorists has provoked a public outcry.
He served a year in prison and was then let out on probation.
That study found the risk associated with receipt of tattoos in prison elevated, but not statistically significant.
Most commentators believed that many ' incorrigibles ' had to be interned in security confinement after their prison or penitentiary sentence, in order to protect society.
Many prison officials agreed that, as long as security confinement had not become law, ' incorrigible ' inmates should at least be excluded from most benefits.
