0 a building where criminals are forced to live as a punishment -- 监狱
Conditions in the prison are said to be appalling. 监狱里的条件据说糟透了。
It was a maximum-security prison (= intended to be especially difficult to escape from). 这是一所戒备森严的监狱。
They should put him in prison and throw away the key! 他们应该把他关进监狱，永远也别放出来！
the prison system 监狱制度
Prison (= the time he had spent in prison) hadn't changed him at all. 服刑丝毫没有让他改变。
She felt that her marriage had become a prison. 她觉得自己的婚姻变成了牢笼。
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.
