Example sentences of "prison [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers ' Association , has warned that any remand prisoner suffering a condition that requires constant nursing care , or carrying the HIV virus , would not be sent to the Wolds because of the possible cost .
2 Radically reforming conditions inside prisons , reducing overcrowding , improving prison officers ' morale and punishing offenders where possible within the community .
3 The Prison Officers ' Association announced that the action was being suspended because it would hit patients .
4 Prison officers ' leaders claimed that the Tories wanted to destroy jobs — and the plans would reduce jail security .
5 Ivor Serle , chairman of the Strangeways Prison Officers ' Association , said : ‘ Private firms can not provide the security prison officers can .
6 A crisis of inmate unrest , with recurrent rooftop protests or rioting ; a staff crisis , with the Prison Officers ' Union forcing thousands of prisoners to be held in police cells ; above all , a numbers crisis , with successive Home Secretaries announcing , at various times , that the breaking point of the system would be reached when the prison population passed the 40,000 , or the 44,000 , or the 50,000 mark .
7 This will do more to inspire public confidence than the prison officers ' negative attitude .
8 Examples of special interest groups are Victim Support ( formerly known as the National Association for Victim Support Schemes ) , Parents of Murdered Children , the National Association of Prison Visitors , the National Association of Probation Officers , the National Association of Senior Probation Officers , the Association of Chief Officers of Probation , the Association of Chief Police Officers , the Superintendents ' Association , the Police Federation , the Prison Governors ' Association , and Prison Officers ' Association .
9 One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) .
10 Instead they see the root cause as being prison officers ' alarm at developments which they see as having undermined their ‘ authority ’ .
11 Various other strands of penal policy — the prison building programme ( see Chapter 5 ) , privatization ( see Chapter 10 ) , and the Fresh Start on prison officers ' pay — can also be seen as the product of a combination of political ideology and material circumstances .
12 I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] .
13 The prison officers ' dispute Sharon refers to is the Prison Officers Association overtime ban started at the end of April 1986 .
14 If he could not haul the family out of their genteel poverty , he could at least protect his women , his wife and his daughters , from the knowledge that he and so many others shared , mute and unrecognised , in the offices of the law , in the architects ' and developers ' bureaux , in police and magistrates ' waiting rooms , in prison officers ' canteens , in teachers ' common rooms , camps .
15 A letter bomb had in March wounded three at a prison officers ' union headquarters ; another killed an officer 's mother in Granada on Aug. 11 .
16 BOB PITT / Prison Officers ' Association
17 RON ADAMS / Prison Officers ' Association
18 RON ADAMS / Prison Officers ' Association
19 At a conference of the Prison Officers ' Association , their leader , John Bartell has called for a halt on the Government 's privatisation of the prison service .
20 RAY WARD Prison Officers ' Association
21 Similar escapes in the past — there 've been 16 in 2 years — have prompted officials of the Prison Officers ' Association to suggest video camera surveillance of the blind spot .
22 PETER HALL / Prison Officers ' Association
23 RON ADAMS / Prison Officers ' Association
24 PETER HALL / Prison Officers ' Association
25 The final straw for the Prison Officers ' Association came when two officers were kicked , beaten and punched in a fracas earlier this week — one went to hospital , the other 's on sick leave .
26 Here , his worst enemies , dressed in prison officers ' uniform , want to become his friends ; not to be thought of as a screw , but a first name terms chum .
27 RON ADAMS Prison Officers ' Association
28 RON ADAMS / Prison Officers ' Association
29 The annual report of the Scottish Prison Officers ' Association — published today — attacks senior management and declares : ‘ We can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . ’
30 PRIVATISING prisons is morally wrong and could result in violence and bloodshed , the Scottish Prison Officers ' Association annual conference at Inverness heard yesterday .
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