The prisons are all full up.

所有的监狱都已满。

We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons.

地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。

The fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons.

该基金大部分已用于资助联邦监狱的建造。

Their basic criticism was that prisons do not reduce the crime rate, they cause recidivism.

他们的基本评论为：监狱的存在无法降低犯罪率，它只能引发重犯。

The state's former commissioner of prisons once called Leonard the meanest man he'd ever seen.

这个州的前任监狱长曾经把伦纳德称为他所见过的最残忍的人。

Prisons and hospitals maintain libraries, too.

监狱和医院也有图书馆。

Many prisons were built over one hundred years ago.

许多监狱是一百多年前建造的。

Prisons are no longer the grim forbidding places they used to be.

监狱不再是过去那种可怕的、令人生畏的地方。

There are two sorts of prisons, the open sort and the closed sort.

世界上有两种监狱，一种是开放式的，一种是封闭式的。

Schools and prisons with craft programs report that they have a calming effect and enhance social skills.

设有手艺课程的学校和监狱报告称，它们有镇定人心的效果，还能提高社交技能。

Prisoners in open prisons are locked up at night, but for the rest of the time, they are free within the prison grounds.

开放式监狱里的囚犯晚上会被关起来，但其余时间，他们在监狱内享有人身自由。

Prisons are no longer the grim forbidding places they used to be. Social welfare systems are in operation in many parts of the world.

监狱不再是过去那种可怕的令人生畏的地方。

On the criminal justice side, we hope to make punishment tough enough to discourage crime but not so tough as to clog our prisons with relatively minor offenders.

在刑事司法方面，我们希望使惩罚严厉到足以阻止犯罪，但不要严厉到让罪行相对较轻的罪犯都挤满我们的监狱。

Filling our prisons with such individuals would have exactly the opposite of the desired effect, since it would limit our ability to incarcerate younger criminals, who commit a far greater.

在我们的监狱里塞满这样的人会适得其反，因为这会限制我们监禁年轻罪犯的能力，而这些年轻罪犯的罪行要大得多。

Staffing levels in prisons are too low.

监狱里的人员配备数量太少。

I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.

我听说过监狱里令人毛骨悚然的刑讯。

Conditions in prisons out there are unimaginably bad.

那里各监狱的条件难以想像地恶劣。

Prisons are packed with them.

监狱中挤满了心理变态。

You are the inspector of prisons?

您是监狱长？

It is a similar story with the prisons.

监狱的情况也与此类似。

Welcome to the world of old-age prisons.

欢迎来到老年监狱的世界。

Many prisons have no door—or corrupt guards.

许多监狱没有门——或者有贪赃的狱卒。

Overcrowded prisons: A predictable crisis

可预见性危机——英国监狱人满为患

Prisons proved to be another lucrative market.

监狱是另一个盈利市场。

"Yes, Sir," continued the inspector of prisons.

“是的，先生，”监狱长继续说道。

Yet America’s prisons are crammed with old folk.

但是充斥在美国监狱里面的基本上都是上了岁数的人。

Inside the prisons, this means inhumane overcrowding.

在监狱里，这意味着缺乏人道和过分拥挤。

Many prisons do not allow inmates access to computers.

很多监狱不允许罪犯使用电脑。

Does this experiment mirror what occurs in real prisons?

这个实验能够反映出现实情况下监狱里的情形吗？