"hold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 1925, state and Federal prisons held 79 inmates for each 100,000 people outside.
- By 2002, it employed 349 staff and held 1,525 inmates.
- It was designed to hold 841 inmates and employs a staff of 211.
- At the moment the prison holds 1,236 inmates, only 36 more than it was built for.
- The state is required to hold inmates serving sentences of a year or more.
- For example, California's 33 prisons have a total capacity of 100,000, but they hold 170,000 inmates.
- Although the prison was designed to hold 1,738 inmates, in 2008-2009 it had 3,222 prisoners, with a staff of 751.
- The state's prisons now hold 72,000 inmates, up from 12,000 in 1973.
- The jail, which opened in 1991 and is supposed to hold no more than 1,447 inmates, was holding 2,190 this afternoon.
- The detention center holds inmates serving time of 18 months or less.
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