Example sentences of "the prison [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Prison Officers ' Association announced that the action was being suspended because it would hit patients . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | David Evans , general secretary of the Prison Officers ' Association in England and Wales , mounted a fierce attack on ‘ the threat of contracting-out or privatisation . ’ |
| 9 | The prison officers ' dispute Sharon refers to is the Prison Officers Association overtime ban started at the end of April 1986 . |
| 10 | 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 . |