state prison

noun

1. a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.

State prison

noun

1. (in the US) a prison where persons convicted of serious crimes are confined

Word History and Origins

Origin of state prison¹

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

The Empire State had previously downplayed deaths, only reporting those in clinical settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and adult care facilities, and neglecting to report deaths in several other places, including at home or in state prisons.

From The Daily Beast

It needs to be reformatted and California will be reallocating individuals in its state prisons to their last known address in the data.

From Voice of San Diego

In western New York, in the mid-1820s, women were placed in an attic above the kitchen of the new state prison.

From Washington Post

Once Wilson was shipped to state prison, undoing his conviction involved more complex legal filings.

From Washington Post

The lack of accounting made it difficult to accurately gauge what has worked and what has not in the decade since offenders were diverted from state prisons to county jails.

From ProPublica

Her destination was Corcoran, California, where Charles Manson is spending his remaining days in a state prison.

From The Daily Beast

Now Garcia is being held on $1 million bond and faces life in state prison if convicted of all three crimes.

From The Daily Beast

He became increasingly angry, drank heavily, and committed a series of assaults that eventually landed him in state prison.

From The Daily Beast

You mean seeing Ava in jail, and, in the last scene, being sent to state prison?

From The Daily Beast

Upon his conviction the 69-year-old was sentenced to between 30 and 60 years in state prison.

From The Daily Beast

As much as two years in State prison could learn me, Larry; though I don't think you need to have asked me.

From Project Gutenberg

Still later he was employed in a stone quarry and worked on the building of the state prison.

From Project Gutenberg

He said that he would have me arrested for fraud and put in the State Prison.

From Project Gutenberg

I asked what was the possible crime for which he was serving a life term in a State prison.

From Project Gutenberg

But afterward getting into bad company, he was sentenced to the State Prison, and subsequently hanged.

From Project Gutenberg