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Definition: Prison |
PrisonNoun1. A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment. 2. A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prison" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -- "Stone walls do not a prison make," but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Prison The first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, "Joseph's master, took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound" (Gen. 39:20-23). The Heb. word here used (sohar) means properly a round tower or fortress. It seems to have been a part of Potiphar's house, a place in which state prisoners were kept. The Mosaic law made no provision for imprisonment as a punishment. In the wilderness two persons were "put in ward" (Lev. 24:12; Num. 15:34), but it was only till the mind of God concerning them should be ascertained. Prisons and prisoners are mentioned in the book of Psalms (69:33; 79:11; 142:7). Samson was confined in a Philistine prison (Judg. 16:21, 25). In the subsequent history of Israel frequent references are made to prisons (1 Kings 22:27; 2 Kings 17:4; 25:27, 29; 2 Chr. 16:10; Isa. 42:7; Jer. 32:2). Prisons seem to have been common in New Testament times (Matt. 11:2; 25:36, 43). The apostles were put into the "common prison" at the instance of the Jewish council (Acts 5:18, 23; 8:3); and at Philippi Paul and Silas were thrust into the "inner prison" (16:24; comp. 4:3; 12:4, 5). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a prison, is the forerunner of misfortune in every instance, if it encircles your friends, or yourself. To see any one dismissed from prison, denotes that you will finally overcome misfortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Multilingual Slang | Hungarian (sitt ). (references) |
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A prison or penitentiary or jail (in British English, sometimes spelled gaol) comprises a building or system used to hold persons convicted of crimes.
Undergoing punishment though a prison sentence has the colloquial name of "doing time". Synonyms of "prison" include "hoosegow", "clink" and "lockup".
Prisons in the United States
As of 2003, the United States prison population is the world's largest in absolute numbers according to available statistics. It is second largest in relative numbers to Rwanda, where as of 2002, over 100,000 people where held on suspicion of participation in the 1994 genocide. No data is available for North Korea. [1]
The large prison population in the US results primarily from high crime rates, long sentences, and a rigidly fought "War on Drugs". Some observers have gone so far as to accuse the United States of deliberately developing the legal system and the prison industry as a means of social control (a conspiracy theory).
In recent years, debate about prisons in the United States has focused on the pros and cons of the privatization of prisons. The argument for privatization stresses cost reduction, whereas the arguments against it focus on standards of care, and the question of whether a market economy for prisons might not also lead to a market demand for prisoners (that is, a strong lobby for ever-tougher sentencing to satisfy the need for cheap labor). While privatized prisons have only a short history, inmates in state- and federal-run prisons also undertake active employment in prison for low pay.
Many observers generally regard prison conditions in the United States as problematic, with prisoner violence and rape wide-spread and medical care for inmates inadequate. Gang violence has recently become a major problem, since many gang members retain their affiliations when incarcerated for various crimes. An August 2003 Harper's article by Wil S. Hylton estimated that "somewhere between 20 and 40 percent of American prisoners are, at this very moment, infected with hepatitis C". Prisons may outsource medical care to private companies such as Correctional Medical Services, which, according to Hylton's research, try to minimize the amount of care given to prisoners in order to maximize profits.
Private companies which provide services to prisons combine in the American Correctional Association. Their lobbying arm, ALEC, advocates legislation favorable to the industry.
Prisons may specialize exclusively in male or in female prisoners, or have separate departments for each sex.
List of prisons
- Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay, California, United States
- Attica Prison, New York, United States
- The Bastille, Paris
- Belmarsh Prison
- Butyrka prison Moscow
- Château d'If, Marseille, France
- Dartmoor Prison, Devon
- Devil's Island, French Guiana
- Fresnes Prison, Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, near Paris
- Holloway Prison, London
- Joliet Prison, Joliet, Illinois
- Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, Ireland
- Kingston Penitentiary, Canada
- Lancaster County Prison
- Lubyanka, Moscow
- Marshalsea, London
- HM Prison Maze (also called Long Kesh), County Antrim
- Newgate Prison, London
- Parchman Farm, Mississippi
- Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight
- Pelican Bay State Prison, California
- Pentonville Prison, London
- Rikers Island, New York, New York, United States
- La Santé Prison, Paris, France
- Sing Sing, Ossining, New York, United States
- Spandau Prison, Berlin (demolished; had only one prisoner during its final 11 years))
- United States Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities:
- Federal Correctional Complexes (FCC):
- FCC Beaumont, Beaumont, Texas
- FCC Coleman, Coleman, Florida
- Federal Correctional Institutions (FCI):
- FCI Allenwood, White Deer, Pennsylvania
- FCI Ashland, Ashland, Kentucky
- FCI Bastrop, Bastrop, Texas
- FCI Beaumont, Beaumont, Texas
- FCI Beckley, Beaver, West Virginia
- FCI Big Spring, Big Spring, Texas
- FCI Butner, Butner, North Carolina
- FCI Coleman, Coleman, Florida
- FCI Cumberland, Cumberland, Maryland
- FCI Danbury, Danbury, Connecticut
- FCI Dublin, Dublin, California
- FCI Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina
- FCI Elkton, Elkton, Ohio
- FCI El Reno, El Reno, Oklahoma
- FCI Englewood, Littleton, Colorado
- FCI Estill, Estill, South Carolina
- FCI Fairton, Fairton, New Jersey
- FCI Florence, Florence, Colorado
- FCI Forrest City, Forrest City, Arkansas
- FCI Fort Dix, Fort Dix, New Jersey
- FCI Gilmer, Glenville, West Virginia
- FCI Greenville, Greenville, Illinois
- FCI La Tuna, Anthony, New Mexico
- FCI Jesup, Jesup, Georgia
- FCI Lompoc, Lompoc, California
- FCI Loretto, Loretto, Pennsylvania
- FCI Manchester, Manchester, Kentucky
- FCI Marianna, Marianna, Florida
- FCI McKean, Bradford, Pennsylvania
- FCI Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
- FCI Miami, Miami, Florida
- FCI Milan, Milan, Michigan
- FCI Morgantown, Morgantown, West Virginia
- FCI Oakdale, Oakdale, Louisiana
- FCI Otisville, Otisville, New York
- FCI Oxford, Oxford, Wisconsin
- FCI Pekin, Pekin, Illinois
- FCI Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia
- FCI Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
- FCI Ray Brook, Ray Brook, New York
- FCI Safford, Safford, Arizona
- FCI Sandstone, Sandstone, Minnesota
- FCI Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania
- FCI Seagoville, Seagoville, Texas
- FCI Sheridan, Sheridan, Oregon
- FCI Talladega, Talladega, Alabama
- FCI Tallahassee, Tallahassee, Florida
- FCI Terminal Island, Terminal Island, California
- FCI Texarkana, Texarkana, Texas
- FCI Three Rivers, Three Rivers, Texas
- FCI Tucson, Tucson, Arizona
- FCI Victorville, Adelanto, California
- FCI Waseca, Waseca, Minnesota
- FCI Yazoo City, Yazoo City, Mississippi
- Federal Detention Centers (FDC):
- FDC Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- FDC Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii
- FDC Houston, Houston, Texas
- FDC Miami, Miami, Florida
- FDC Oakdale, Oakdale, Louisiana
- FDC SeaTac, Seattle, Washington
- Federal Medical Centers (FMC):
- FMC Butner, Butner, North Carolina
- FMC Carswell, Fort Worth, Texas
- FMC Devens, Devens, Massachusetts
- FMC Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
- FMC Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky
- FMC Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota
- Federal Secure Low (FSL)
- FSL La Tuna, El Paso, Texas
- Federal Prison Camps (FPC):
- FPC Alderson, Alderson, West Virginia
- FPC Allenwood, Montgomery, Pennsylvania
- FPC Bryan, Bryan, Texas
- FPC Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
- FPC Eglin, Eglin, Florida
- FPC Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama
- FPC Nellis, North Las Vegas, Nevada
- FPC Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida
- FPC Seymour Johnson, Goldsboro, North Carolina
- FPC Yankton, Yankton, South Dakota
- Federal Transfer Center (FTC):
- FTC Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Medical Centers for Federal Prisoners (MCFP):
- MCFP Springfield, Springfield, Missouri
- Metropolitan Correctional Centers (MCC):
- MCC Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- MCC New York, New York, New York
- MCC San Diego, San Diego, California
- Metropolitan Detention Centers (MDC):
- MDC Brooklyn, New York, New York
- MDC Guaynabo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- MDC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- United States Penitentiaries (USP):
- USP Allenwood, White Deer, Pennsylvania
- USP Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
- USP Atwater, Atwater, California
- USP Beaumont, Beaumont, Texas
- USP Big Sandy, Inez, Kentucky
- USP Coleman, Coleman, Florida
- USP Florence, Florence, Colorado
- USP Lee, Jonesville, Virginia
- USP Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas
- USP Lewisburg, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
- USP Lompoc, Lompoc, California
- USP Marion, Marion, Illinois
- USP Pollock, Pollock, Louisiana
- USP Terre Haute, Terre Haute, Indiana
- Vacaville Prison
- Wormwood Scrubs, London, United Kingdom
List of Prison Corporations
See also: private prisons, United Kingdom prison population, penal colony
- Premier
- Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC)
Further Reading
- Ted Conove, Newjack: Guardian Sing Sing, Knopf, 2001, trade paperback, 352 pages, ISBN 0375726624
- Mark L. Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Publishing House of The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001, ISBN 0800632834.
- Wil S. Hylton: Sick on the Inside. Correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague. Harper's Magazine, August 2003.
External Links
- The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica entry for "prison"
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prison."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prison sexuality deals with sexual relationships between confined individuals. Since prisons are separated by sex this means a same-sex partner, often in contradiction to a person's normal social sexual orientation.Prison sexuality, usually thought of as non-homosexual or situationally-homosexual, shows quite similar dominance traits to those of the apes, creating similar relationship structures. Similar animal-based behaviours are widely understood as being part of human nature, and hence sexual relationships tend to follow universal archetypes, which manifest themselves in all aspects of human culture and behaviour.
In many cases among men, the insertive partner is not viewed as being gay, and the receptive partner (who may not be consenting) is called a woman, or a "punk." In the United States in particular, rape in prisons is a major problem, and may be perpetuated by inmates who do not see themselves as homosexual. A man who has been raped, or who has had receptive intercourse, is often seen as less masculine and hence a target for future rape and other violence.
Among men, the receptive partner may be protected by the insertive partner from fights etc, and some heterosexuals enter relationships for this purpose, or to restrict the number of men they must sleep with.
The incidence of hepatitis in prisons is very high, though this may be due to inmates having used intravenous illegal drugs before arrest, rather than due to sexual behavior.
See also Human sexual behavior
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Synonym: PrisonSynonym: prison house (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Escape | Elude; make off; (avoid); march off; (go away); give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of. |
Inclosure | Barrier, barricade; gate, gateway; bent, dingle; door, hatch, cordon; prison. |
Liberation | Gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke, slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast off trammels; escape. |
Prison | Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse. |
Prisoner | Adjective: imprisoned; in prison, in quod, in durance vile, in limbo, in custody, doing time, in charge, in chains; under lock and key, under hatches; on parole. |
Refuge | Noun: refuge, sanctuary, retreat, fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison; asylum, ark, home,Noun: refuge, sanctuary, retreat, fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison; asylum, ark, home, refuge for the destitute; almshouse; hiding place; (ambush); sanctum sanctorum; (privacy). |
Restraint | Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes. |
Arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate. | |
Secret | Noun: secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum, mystery; latency; Asian mystery; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes. |
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Screenplays | This is a maximum security prison, and you have no weapons of any kind (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) No prison there is a difference (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Prison life consists of routine, and then more routine (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) I belong in a maximum security prison for men (A Pyromaniac's Love Story; writing credit: Morgan Ward) There I was in prison. And one day I help a couple of older gentlemen make some free telephone calls (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.) | |
Lyrics | I once thopught of love as a prison a place I didn't want to be. (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois) When passion's a prison, you can't break free (You Give Love a Bad Name; performing artist: Bon Jovi) One could end up going to prison (Only In America; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn) He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison. (Coward of the County; performing artist: Kenny Rogers) The rusted chains of prison moons (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson) | |
Clever | Two men looked out of prison bars: One saw mud, and the other saw stars. (references; author: unknown) Before you can break out of prison, you must realize that you are locked up. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Girl's Prison (1970) The Prison Community (1965) Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) Girls in Prison (1956) La Joyeuse prison (1956) | |
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![]() | The infamous Bilibid Prison Some Coast Surveyors were incarcerated here by the Japanese in WWII. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Marching the prisoners at Bilibid Prison Some Coast Surveyors were incarcerated here by the Japanese in WWII. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Sleeping quarters at the prison at Isla Gorgona. Credit: Small World. | ![]() | The dining quarters at the prison at Isla Gorgona. Credit: Small World. |
![]() | Edmond Pope (center), the American businessman convicted of spying by the Russian government, arrived at Ramstein Air base, Germany, Dec. 14 following his release from prison. The 54-year-old retired Navy officer was to receive a medical evaluation at ne. | ![]() | Santo Tomas Prison Hospital, Manila, P.I. : Woman washing her hair at one of the two bath tubs in camp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | [A PHS physician and a nurse stand at the entrance to the caged area at a prison facility]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Passing Alcatraz prison, San Francisco Bay, California, during the 1930s. Hand-colored photograph. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, circa 1908, while serving as prison ship there. Note laundry drying in her rigging, forward. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison for alledged contempt of court. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Preschool prison" by Annie Andre Commentary: "This was a picture of my son in his preschools play yard. He looks like he's in prison with the bars and the striped shirt." | "Mt St Michelle - Inside the ab" by Denis R. Commentary: "This is like an elevator to move food to the prison (when the abbey was a prison), this in mont saint michelle. <br> <br>Sorry, no a real big resolution." |
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| Clink; jail; prison; behind bars; locked up; lock up; lock down; incarceration; incarcerated; Bastille; big cage; big house; big school; black hole; booby hatch; brig; bull pen; caboose; cage; calaboose; can; cell; cooler; coop; county hotel; death house. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Epictetus | Wherever anyone is against his will that is to him a prison. |
Epicurus | 58. We must release ourselves from the prison of affairs and politics. |
Henry David Thoreau | Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. |
Peter Ustinov | Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. |
Richard Lovelace | Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. |
Shaw | Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. |
Sir Edwin Arnold | Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. |
Victor Hugo | He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Prison Reform: for the benefit of the working class. (reference) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The evening before the day fixed for the execution of the condemned, the almoner of the prison fell ill. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The particular judgment was over and the soul had passed to the abode of bliss or to the prison of purgatory or had been hurled howling into hell |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And they stood apart and watched him secretly, the great brother who had killed a man and been in prison. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The majority of offenders involved with the criminal justice system are not in prison but are under community supervision. (references) | |
As might be expected, treatment gains can be lost if inmates are returned to the general prison population after treatment. (references) | ||
Naltrexone has also been found to be successful in preventing relapse by former opiate addicts released from prison on probation. (references) | ||
Business | However, he remains in prison. (references) | |
Frequently, prisoners exercise authority within a prison, displacing prison officials. (references) | ||
Overcrowding and corruption within the prison system results in mixing of these groups. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | Homicide is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 14, and only 1.9 percent of murderers are serving prison sentences. (references) |
Korea | Revisions also include increased penalties for convicted child abusers, who would face up to 5 years in prison (compared to the previous 2 years) for child abuse. (references) | |
Kenya | Men convicted of rape normally receive prison sentences of between 5 and 20 years, plus several strokes of the cane. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | The Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres reports that there were 13 journalists in prison during the year, including novelist and journalist San San Nweh, who was imprisoned in 1994 for a 10-year-term for passing information regarding human rights violations to international reporters and U.N. observers. (references) |
Jamaica | Rastafarians have no right to prison visits by Rastafarian clergy. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | In all three cities, the police appeared to have had advance knowledge of the protests and briefly detained the protesters, who were relatives of the alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir members in prison. (references) | |
Economic History | Malaysia | In April 1999, he was convicted of four counts of corruption and sentenced to 6 years in prison. (references) |
Korea | A recent example is the February 2001 amendments of Korea's IPR-related laws to increase the monetary penalties associated with criminal violations for infringement from 50 million won to 100 million won and to lengthen prison terms from five years to seven years. (references) | |
Kenya | The Prevention of Corruption Act, amended in late 1997 to create the Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority (KACA), makes it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison to give or receive a bribe. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | Maulana Azizul Haq, Chairman of the Islami Oikkyo Jote, a member of the four-party alliance, was rearrested inside prison in another case after the court granted him bail. (references) |
Togo | Lome's central prison, built for 350 prisoners, reportedly housed 1,500 inmates or more during the year. (references) | |
Togo | In 2000 an estimated 50 percent of the prison population was pretrial detainees; there were no available statistics for the pretrial detainee population at year's end. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | These laws set automatic prison terms for multiple convictions of certain crimes. (references) |
Australia | Western Australia continued to retain its mandatory sentencing laws, which provide that a person (adult or juvenile) who commits the crime of home burglary three or more times is subject to a mandatory minimum prison sentence. (references) | |
Australia | Indigenous groups charge that police harassment of indigenous people, including juveniles, is pervasive and that racial discrimination among police and prison custodians persists. (references) | |
Minorities | Estonia | In January 17 ethnic Russian prison officials were fired for noncompliance with the language requirement. (references) |
Egypt | One defendant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison and 3 defendants were convicted of arson and sentenced to 1 year in prison. (references) | |
Liechtenstein | Violations are punishable by a maximum 2-year prison sentence. (references) | |
Political Economy | Central African Republic | Other human rights abuses included harsh prison conditions, arbitrary arrest and detention, prolonged detention without trial, limits on judicial independence, and infringements on citizens' right to privacy. (references) |
Brazil | In April U.N. Special Rapporteur for Torture Sir Nigel Rodley released his report on torture, which contained many examples of the use of torture by police and prison administrators, and strongly criticized the Government for not taking measures to eliminate the use of torture. (references) | |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Other principal human rights problems continued to include instances of excessive use of force by police, the Government's failure to punish adequately those responsible for such abuses, poor prison conditions, and an overburdened court system. (references) | |
Political Rights | Indonesia | All adult citizens, except active-duty members of the armed forces, persons in prison convicted of crimes punishable by over 5 years' incarceration, persons suffering from mental disorders, and persons deprived of voting rights by an irrevocable verdict of a court of justice, are eligible to vote. (references) |
Djibouti | In 1996 the five, Moumin Bahdon Farah, Ahmed Boulaleh Barreh, Ali Mahamade Houmed, Ismael Guedi Hared, and Abdillahi Guireh Rayaleh, were accused of insulting former president Hassan Gouled Aptidon and sentenced to 6 months in prison and a large fine. (references) | |
Turkey | The deputies remained in prison at year's end. (references) | |
Trade | Zambia | The importation of the following is expressly prohibited: false and counterfeit coins or bank notes; indecent, obscene or objectionable material; goods manufactured or produced wholly or in part by prison labor; pirated and counterfeit goods; and any goods prohibited under any other law in Zambia such as the Drug and Pyscotropic Act, the Wildlife Act, National Heritage Act for Historical Artifacts. (references) |
Travel | Uk | Air travelers to and from the United Kingdom should be aware that penalties against alcohol-related and other in-flight crimes ("air rage") are stiff and are being enforced with prison sentences. (references) |
Uk | UK penalties for drunk driving are stiff and often result in prison sentences. (references) | |
Women | Jordan | Although few defendants are able to meet the stringent requirements for a crime of honor defense (the defendant personally must have witnessed the female victim engaging in sexual relations), most avoid trial for the crime of murder, and are tried instead on the charge of manslaughter; even those convicted of murder rarely spend more than 2 years in prison. (references) |
Lebanon | Despite a law prohibiting battery with a maximum sentence of 3 years in prison for those convicted, some religious courts legally may require a battered wife to return to the house in spite of physical abuse. (references) | |
Kuwait | The Kuwaiti woman was being held in prison without bail at year's end. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | The law allows the Government to petition the courts to dissolve a union if its basis conflicts with Pancasila or the 1945 constitution, or if a union's leaders or members, in the name of the union, commit crimes against the security of the State and are sentenced to at least 5 years in prison. (references) |
China | At least seven others were sentenced to long prison terms. (references) | |
China | Li was charged with "incitement to subversion of state power," an apparent reference to his attempt to publicize prison conditions through a hunger strike. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it. Barlow S. Vode |
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Dominick Dunne | In Monaco, in a penthouse in Monte Carlo over the bank that Mr. Safra had owned and had just sold just before his death. And it's a fascinating case. The American nurse has now been in the Monaco prison for about two and a half years. |
Frank Lindh | Well, Dan, I'm very troubled by that statement as well. I would just ask you to consider the fact that he was being pressed by a reporter after being pulled out of the basement of a prison where he went through that horrible ordeal. |
Ted Koppel | Texas is certainly one of the largest states in the country for prison population and in point of fact, there are even some prisoners who are being exported to Texas and are being warehoused in Texas because the Texans have really made an industry of it. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Some judges are reluctant to send convicted criminals to prison because of inadequate facilities. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We need mentors to love children, especially children whose parents are in prison. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Prison" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Prison" is used about 6,423 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.86% | 6,414 | 1,513 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,423 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "prison". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Matri | N/A | Biblical | Prison |
| Shamir | N/A | Biblical | Prison |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "prison": be in prison ♦ cast into prison ♦ clap in prison ♦ commit smb. to prison ♦ commit to prison ♦ debtor's prison ♦ escape from prison ♦ fling into prison ♦ fling smb. in prison ♦ give smb. a prison sentence ♦ in prison ♦ languish in prison ♦ lie in prison ♦ local prison ♦ open prison ♦ prison authorities ♦ prison bars ♦ prison base ♦ prison breach ♦ prison breaker ♦ prison breaking ♦ prison camp ♦ prison cell ♦ prison chaplain ♦ prison compound ♦ prison dress ♦ prison editor ♦ prison farm ♦ prison governor ♦ prison guard ♦ prison house ♦ prison life ♦ prison limits ♦ prison officer ♦ prison population ♦ prison psychosis ♦ prison sentence ♦ prison ship ♦ prison system ♦ prison term ♦ prison van ♦ prison warden ♦ prison welfare ♦ prison yard ♦ put in prison ♦ recommit to prison ♦ remand prison ♦ scrape clear of prison ♦ secrets of the prison house ♦ send to prison ♦ sent to prison ♦ serve a prison sentence ♦ shut smb. up in prison ♦ state prison ♦ State's prison ♦ throw in prison ♦ throw into prison. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "prison": prison-breaking, prison-building, prison-cages, prison-camp, prison-exercise, prison-gate, prison-house, prison-issue, prison-like, prison-made, prison-officer, prison-officers, prison-ship, prison-ships, prison-stable, prison-stockade, prison-term, prison-warder, prison-yard. | |
Ending with "prison": anti-prison, drugs-in-prison, ex-prison, fleet-prison, inter-prison, middle-class-prison, non-prison, palace-prison, pre-prison, wasp-prison. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
prison | 3,066 | prison picture | 144 |
prison pen pal | 1,542 | federal prison inmate | 141 |
federal prison | 1,220 | georgia prison | 123 |
federal bureau of prison | 575 | georgia state prison | 123 |
state prison | 536 | prison life | 122 |
bureau of prison | 453 | arizona state prison | 116 |
ohio prison | 416 | illinois prison | 116 |
prison inmate | 413 | north carolina prison | 105 |
woman in prison | 355 | san quentin prison | 103 |
florida prison | 298 | nc prison | 103 |
california state prison | 294 | prison ministry | 102 |
texas prison | 287 | woman prison pen pal | 99 |
california prison | 256 | arizona prison | 96 |
prison woman | 222 | prison photo | 94 |
florida state prison | 205 | prison privatization | 92 |
prison tattoo | 186 | prison inmate search | 91 |
gang prison | 169 | arkansas prison | 86 |
michigan prison | 168 | female prison pen pal | 85 |
prison record | 163 | prison sing sing | 84 |
prison art | 151 | prison state wasco | 84 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "prison"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fut në burg (fling into prison, imprison), fus në burg (imprison), burgu, burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison house, quod, stir). (various references) | |
Arabic | محبس (wedding ring), حبس (confine, confinement, constraint, crib, custody, duress, gaol, imprison, imprisonment, jail, lockup, mewl, occlude, sequester, sequestration, shut), سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, quod, send up, stir, throw), السجن (slammer), أسر (captivate, captivity, capture, catch, enthralling, intrigue, seize, seizure, servitude, take, take prisoner). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, gaol, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stockade, stopper), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off), заключвам (bolt, fasten, key, latch, lock, lock up, screw up, shut, shut in). (various references) | |
Chinese | 監獄 , 監 (firm, hard, jail, solid, strong, supervisor, to inspect, to supervise), 监狱 (jail, jailhouse), 獄 , 囹 . (various references) | |
Czech | vìzení (confinement, gaol, jail, lockup, pound, prison house, retention, round house, roundhouse), vězení, trestnice, žalář (dungeon, gaol, jail). (various references) | |
Danish | fængsel (gaol, jail). (various references) | |
Dutch | kerker (cell, gaol, jail), gevangenis (gaol, jail), nor (gaol, jail). (various references) | |
Esperanto | prizono (gaol, jail), malliberulejo (gaol, jail), malliberejo (gaol, jail). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fongsul (gaol). (various references) | |
Farsi | محبس (Calaboose, Dungeon, Gaol, Jail), وابسته به زندان , حبس (Bail, Calaboose, Custody, Durante, Imprisonment, Jail, Lockup), زندان کردن (Can, Lockup), زندان (Calaboose, Coop, Dungeon, Gaol, Grate, Jail, Presidio). (various references) | |
Finnish | vankila (jail, joutua, nick). (various references) | |
French | prison. (various references) | |
Frisian | finzenis (gaol). (various references) | |
German | Gefängnis (gaol, imprisonment, jail, jail house, jailhouse, penitentiary), Strafanstalt (penal institution, penitentiary), kerker (dungeon, dungeons, gaol, imprisonment, jail, oubliette). (various references) | |
Greek | φυλακή (bagnio, brig, calaboose, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, hock, hoosegow, jail, jail house, jug, quod, stir), ειρκτή (gaol, jail). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משמר (conservative, convoy, escort, guard, observance, post, preservative, watch), מאסר (arrest, confinement, detention, imprisonment, incarceration), כלא (confinement, jail, penitentiary), בית אסורים, בית כלא (jail, penitentiary), בית סוהר (jail), בית סהר (jail). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fogház (detention house, gaol, jail). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penjara (brig, dungeon, jail, quod), pembelokan (distortion, turning), bui (jail). (various references) | |
Italian | prigione (bastille, calaboose, clink, coop, dungeon, gaol, imprisonment, jail, quod), carcere (can, gaol, jail, oubliette, penitentiary). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 牢獄 (jail), 監獄 , 獄舎 , 獄窓 (prison windows), 獄屋 , 人屋 (jail), 拘置所 (detention house), 刑務所 (penitentiary). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひとや (all night, jail, one evening, one night, overnight), かんごく, ごくそう (prison windows), ごくしゃ, ごくや, こうちしょ (detention house), ろうごく (jail), けいむしょ (penitentiary). (various references) | |
Korean | 형무소. (various references) | |
Manx | pryssoon (brig, gaol, glasshouse, jail, lock up, penitentiary). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fengsel (gaol, jail). (various references) | |
Papiamen | prizon (gaol), prizòn (gaol), prison (gaol), piskalat (gaol). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isonpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prisão (accouchement, apprehension, arrest, bastille, bond, cage, captivity, choky, confinement, constrained, custody, detention, duress, entanglement, ewer, gaol, jug, limbo, noose, pokey, quad, quod), cadeia (cage, calaboose, catena, chain, choky, clink, cufflink, ewer, fetter, gaol, jail, jug, network, orlop, penitentiary, pokey, prison house, quad, quod, shackle, stockade, ward), cárcere (calaboose). (various references) | |
Romanian | temniţã (cage, gaol, jail, keep), ocnã, arunca în închisoare (clap), aresta (apprehend, arrest, confine, grab, have up, lag, nab, pinch, seize, take into custody, trap), arest (arrest, committal, custody, detainer, detention, imprisonment, pinch), întemniţa (gaol, hold, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, lock up, pound, secure), închisoare (cage, cooler, coop, correction, gaol, hold, house of detention, imprisonment, jug, keep, pound, station house). (various references) | |
Russian | тюрьма (bastille, bridewell, calaboose, gaol, jail, jug, lockup, pit, pound, prison house, quod, slammer, stone-jug). (various references) | |
Scottish | prìosan, fang (a sheep-pen, a vulture, den, sheep pen). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zatvorski (choky), zatvor (calaboose, choky, clink, confinement, cooler, coop, jail, lockup, obstipation, prison house, quod, stir, stockade), tamnica (dungeon, gaol). (various references) | |
Spanish | prisión (arrest, confinement, gaol, imprisonment, jail), encierro (confinement, duress, enclosure, inclosure, penning, shutting-in). (various references) | |
Sranan | dungr'oso (gaol). (various references) | |
Swahili | jela (gaol). (various references) | |
Swedish | fängelse (bagnio, calaboose, can, clink, gaol, hold, imprisonment, jail, jailhouse, jug, limbo, Nick, pen, penitentiary, prison house). (various references) | |
Tagalog | piítan (gaol), bilanggúan (gaol), bilíbid (gaol). (various references) | |
Turkish | kodes (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, gaol, hole, jail, jug, pen, quod, stir), hapsetme (imprisonment, incarceration, internment), hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, institution, jail, Nick, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward), hapis (charge, confinement, duress, gaol, imprisonment, jail), delik (aperture, bore, cavity, den, hole, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, slot, stir, vent, ventage, venthole), cezaevi (calaboose, jail, penal institution, penitentiary, quod, roundhouse, stockade). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tьrme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ув'язнювати (confine, constrain, dungeon, embar, gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, pound, quod), тюрма (quod), в'язниця (bandhouse, cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, dump, gaol, jail, limbo, penitentiary, pound, quod, slammer, ward), неволя (captivity, yoke). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhà tù (bastille, bridewell, calaboose, chaplain, college, gaol, held, hold, prison-house, rogue house), nhà lao (clink, prison-house), nhà giam (bagnio, cage, clink, gaol, prison-house, tolbooth, tollbooth). (various references) | |
Welsh | carchar (restraint). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carcer, carcere, carcerem, carceribus, carceris, carcerum, claustrum, custodia, custodiae, custodiam, custodiarum, custodias, custodiasque, custodiis, ergastula, ergastulo, nervi, nervicis, nervo, nervos, nervum, nervus, phylaca. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | carcern, clustor. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | prisoun. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ei eirhnikoi este adelfoV umwn eiV katasceqhtw en th fulakh autoi de badisate kai apagagete ton agorasmon thV sitodosiaV umwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si pacifici estis frater vester unus ligetur in carcere vos autem abite et ferte frumenta quae emistis in domos vestras |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If ye be pesible, youre o brother be boundun in prisoun; ye forsothe goth, and berith the whete that ye han bouyt into youre howsis, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Yf ye meane no hurte let one of youre brethern be bounde in the preason and goo ye and brynge the necessarie foode vnto youre housholdes |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If ye are true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Kong kamo mga tawo nga matuod, pasagdi ninyo nga ang usa sa inyong mga igsoon magapabilin nga binantayan sa balay nga gibilanggoan kaninyo; apan panlakaw kamo, ug dad-on ninyo ang trigo nga alang sa gutom sa inyong mga panimalay. |
| Croatian | Ako ste pošteni, neka jedan od vas ostane u zatvoru, a vi ostali idite i nosite žito svojim izgladnjelim domovima. |
| Danish | Er I virkelig ærlige Folk, lad så en af eder blive tilbage som Fange i det Fængsel, som I sad i, medens I andre drager hjem med Korn til at stille Hungeren i eders Huse; |
| Dutch | Zo gij vroom zijt, zo zij een uwer broederen gebonden in het huis uwer bewaring; en gaat gij heen, brengt het koren voor den honger uwer huizen. |
| Finnish | jos olette rehellisiä miehiä, niin jääköön yksi teistä, veljeksistä, vangiksi vankilaan, jossa teitä säilytettiin, mutta te muut menkää viemään kotiin viljaa perheittenne nälänhätään. |
| French | Si vous êtes sincères, que l`un de vos frères reste enfermé dans votre prison; et vous, partez, emportez du blé pour nourrir vos familles, |
| German | Seid ihr redlich, so laßt eurer Brüder einen gebunden liegen in eurem Gefängnis; ihr aber zieht hin und bringet heim, was ihr gekauft habt für den Hunger. |
| Hungarian | Ha igaz emberek vagytok, maradjon fogva egyik testvéretek a ti tömlöczötökben, ti pedig menjetek el, vigyetek gabonát házaitok szükségére. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Untuk membuktikan bahwa kamu ini jujur, seorang dari kamu akan ditahan dalam penjara; yang lain boleh pulang dan membawa gandum yang kamu beli untuk keluargamu yang sedang menderita lapar. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jikalau kiranya kamu orang yang benar, baiklah saudara kamu seorang tinggal terkurung dalam penjara dan pergilah kamu sekalian, bawalah gandum karena sebab kelaparan orang isi rumahmu. |
| Italian | Se voi siete sinceri, uno dei vostri fratelli resti prigioniero nel vostro carcere e voi andate a portare il grano per la fame delle vostre case. |
| Maori | Ki te mea he hunga pono koutou, me here tetahi o o koutou tuakana i roto i te whare i tiakina ai koutou: otiia me haere koutou ki te kawe witi mo te matekai o o koutou whare: |
| Norwegian | Dersom I er ærlige folk, så skal en av eder brødre bli tilbake i fengslet, men I andre kan dra avsted og ha med eder korn til hjelp mot hungersnøden i eders hjem, |
| Rumanian | Dacq sknteyi oameni de treabq, sq rqmknq unul din frayii vowtri knchis kn temniya voastrq; iar ceilalyi plecayi, luayi grku ca sq vq hrqniyi familiile, |
| Russian | ЕУМЙ ЧЩ МАДЙ ЮЕУФОЩЕ, ФП ПДЙО ВТБФ ЙЪ ЧБУ РХУФШ УПДЕТЦЙФУС Ч ДПНЕ, ЗДЕ ЧЩ ЪБЛМАЮЕОЩ; Б ЧЩ РПКДЙФЕ, ПФЧЕЪЙФЕ ИМЕВ, ТБДЙ ЗПМПДБ УЕНЕКУФЧ ЧБЫЙИ; |
| Spanish | Si sois hombres honestos, quede preso en vuestra celda uno de vuestros hermanos. El resto id, llevad las provisiones para saciar el hambre de vuestras casas. |
| Swedish | ären I redliga män, så må en av eder, I bröder, stanna såsom fånge i huset där I haven suttit fängslade; men I andra mån fara eder väg, och föra hem med eder den säd som I haven köpt till hjälp mot hungersnöden hemma hos eder. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prison": prisoned, prisoner, prisoners, prisoning, prisons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "prison": imprison, postprison. (additional references) | |
Words containing "prison": coprisoner, coprisoners, imprisoned, imprisoning, imprisonment, imprisonments, imprisons. (additional references) | |
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"Prison" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aprismo, apriso, Drizhon, Frisoni, paison, Parison, Pericom, Perion, Periton, persion, Pipson, piriton, Piron, pison, Pisoni, pisson, Pixon, Plisson, Pranon, prason, Prasong, precon, preon, presin, presn, presson, prieo, Prijon, Prinsen, Prinsloo, prion, prione, prions, priosn, prisn, priso, priton, privo, prizen, procon, Prosen, proso, proson, prysor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prison" (pronounced pri"zun) |
| 6 | p r i" z u n | imprison. |
| 5 | -r i" z u n | risen. |
| 4 | -i" z u n | arisen. |
| 3 | -z u n | artisan, bipartisan, brazen, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, emblazon, frozen, Hausen, Hazan, horizon, Mizen, nonpartisan, partisan, poison, reason, rosin, season, thousand, treason, unfrozen, wizen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: orpins, prions, spinor. | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: irons, noirs, noris, opsin, ornis, orpin, pions, pirns, porns, prion, rosin. | |
-2 letters: inro, ions, iron, nips, noir, nori, pins, pion, pirn, piso, pois, pons, porn, pros, rins, rips, snip, sori, sorn, spin. | |
-3 letters: ins, ion, nip, nor, nos, ons, ops, ors, pin, pis, poi, pro, psi, rin, rip, sin, sip, sir, son, sop. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: inpours, orpines, prisons, prosing, soprani, spinors, sporing, tropins. | |
+2 letters: atropins, conspire, imprison, incorpse, ingroups, isoprene, morphins, overspin, parsonic, perigons, pinworks, pinworms, pioneers, pointers, poisoner, poniards, porniest, portions, positron, prisoned, prisoner, prolines, promines, propines, proteins, pruinose, purloins, rampions, reposing, ripienos, ropiness, scorpion, snoopier, sorption, spongier, spoonier, spooring, sporting, tropines. | |
+3 letters: aepyornis, aspersion, atropines, caparison, caponiers, conscript, conspired, conspires, coprinces, disproven, dripstone, droppings, drypoints, entropies, eruptions, groupings, hornpipes, imprisons, inceptors, incorpsed, incorpses, inspector, interpose, isoprenes, morphines, nephrosis, offprints, offspring, orpiments, outsprint, overspins, ownership, panbroils, paranoias, paranoics, paranoids, parsimony, parvolins, pastoring, patronise, pecorinos, peignoirs, pensioner, penurious, peperonis, perfusion, persimmon, personify, pervasion, phoronids, picaroons, pinafores, pinedrops, pinkroots, pliotrons, poisoners, positrons, posturing, precision, prelusion, premonish, preunions, prevision, princocks, princoxes, printouts, prisoners, prisoning, procaines, profusion, progenies, progestin, prognosis, prolamins, prolusion, promising, proposing, proscenia, prosimian, prosiness, protamins, protistan, provinces, provision, purposing, pyrenoids, pyronines, raindrops, rainspout, replicons, repulsion, rhodopsin, riposting, scorpions, scrooping, shipborne, shipowner, sopranino, sorptions, sporangia, springbok, sprouting, stropping, supinator, terpinols, troponins, uprousing, upsoaring, vaporings. | |
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