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Prison Definition–noun | 1. | a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc. | | 3. | any place of confinement or involuntary restraint. | |
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An 'NCIS' Agent is Trapped in Prison
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Agent Timothy McGee ( Sean Murray ) is caught in a lockdown of a woman's prison when a guard is murdered, and the women promise he will be the...
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Appeal to stop closure of women's prison rejected
Northern News - Found Jan. 5, 2009
... building at the corner of King St. and Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd. has served as a minimum-security women's prison since 1990. It can hold 10...
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N WILSON: The moral vacuum at New Labour's heart
Corrections decides on future of prison...
98.3 Fly FM - Found Jan. 8, 2009
... security prison for women in Kingston. There are no more inmates living at Isabelle McNeil house--they were transfered to another prison after...
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Women of the year
Sunday Times - Found Dec. 27, 2008
... bloodstained ballet pumps, prison stints and knickerless limo exits, to positive role models. This time, they are mostly grown-up women in...
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Transsexual Quebec inmate sentenced to serve time in male prison
Hamilton Spectator - Found Dec. 26, 2008
'Then she was sentenced to 40-months in prison and instead of sending her to a prison for women, they sent her to a prison for men...
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Mother's road trip fueled by grief, passion
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Jail only just term in freezing deaths
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