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prison

noun as in residence for incarcerating criminals

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A woman who used a sword to kill her wife during an argument before attacking her mother-in-law in San Dimas was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison on Monday.

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It will ultimately be up to the state's board of pardons and parole to determine how long he will spend in prison.

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It often fell to Cheney, not President Bush, to make an assertive, unapologetic case for the American-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and for the controversial antiterrorism measures such as the Guantánamo Bay prison.

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Feeling like “a broken entity trapped in a kind of prison,” he finds peace by communing with the one person who can see him, Indian student and fellow lonely soul, Rosa.

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Poverty and hunger are forms of structural violence that stunt lives, limit upward social mobility and raise the odds that a hungry child will one day end up in prison.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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