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state prison

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  1. state prisonnoun

    a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.

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  1. state prison

    This is a list of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):

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  1. state prison

    A state prison is a correctional institution or facility owned, managed, and operated by a state government entity, where individuals who have been convicted of crimes are incarcerated as part of their legal sentencing. The severity and type of these crimes usually surpass minor offenses, often including violent crimes, felonies, or repeated offenses. These facilities serve the main functions of punishment, deterrence, and rehabilitation for the inmates.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of state prison in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of state prison in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of state prison in a Sentence

  1. Eric Siddall:

    Under California law, Flores should have been in a state prison cell on the day he murdered the two officers. Instead, because of George Gascón’s policies, he was in a hotel room in El Monte beating his girlfriend until two officers responded for the call for help. Now two officers are dead.

  2. Ken Padowitz:

    ``Mr. Adkins lost the Florida state lottery and won an all-expense-paid trip to the Florida state prison for 18 months,``said Assistant State Attorney Ken Padowitz, who prosecuted him.

  3. Bruce Fromong:

    I told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison.

  4. Lou Shapiro:

    Today, the news is fresh and society's anger and disgust is at a high, over the course of the next several months, after tempers cool, I expect that the public will view this case more analytically than emotionally, and realize that a federal state prison sentence on a first-time white-collar offense, under these facts, with these parents, might be a bit too punitive.

  5. Bruce Fromong:

    He was upset, insulted, but I don't think that he thought the price should be what it was. i told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison.

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