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prison

noun as in residence for incarcerating criminals

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Few likely blinked when a federal judge cited coercion and abuse as aggravating factors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sentencing to 50 months in prison.

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What happens to the ingenious rogue inmate after he breaks out of prison at the end of the story?

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Of course, this says nothing of the money that continues to flow to oil companies, war profiteers and private companies producing for-profit prisons.

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Many Palestinians see him as their Nelson Mandela, who served 27 years in prison for planning attacks on the apartheid regime in South Africa before he was released to win a democratic election.

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The unsolved case of Madeleine's disappearance was thrust back into the spotlight last month after the top suspect was released from a German prison.

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