The jail's a funny building, not prison-like at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telemarketer's Point of View] Reference

Offenders are often sent to prison-like rehabilitation centers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Democracy and Muslim Sharia Law Live Together?] Reference

And some illegal immigrants are being moved out of prison-like conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009] Reference

He is stolen away from his friends and lover to a magical prison-like school.    From Wordnik.com.  [HH Com 149] Reference

SMERCONISH: Pat Brown, we don ` t want our schools to be encampments, prison-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2007] Reference

Maybe a resolution condemning failing schools and prison-like educational systems?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles D. Ellison: Open Letter to Benjamin Jealous] Reference

The door closed behind her, and there was a prison-like sound of making fast within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Students who don't follow the rules will be forced to wear that prison-like jump suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008] Reference

Then came a gloomy, prison-like formation, with a "Bridge of Sighs" two hundred feet above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

She ` s in a prison-like environment, but it seems to be a prison she might actually love.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2007] Reference

PHILLIPS: Well, the prison-like jump suits are supposed to be reserved for repeat offenders.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008] Reference

Many detainees were held in prison-like environments, without access to lawyers or families.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOVERNMENT WATCHDOGS: THE INSPECTORS GENERAL] Reference

And workers for a U.S. military subcontractor allegedly held in prison-like conditions in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2008] Reference

The difficulty again involved penetrating the prison-like compounds to make contact with workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [6.Organize or Starve] Reference

So, it's unclear, too, whether they mean they just go to a prison-like situation and do some labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2009] Reference

Perhaps in insitutions similar to Residential School - but more prison-like, because it's for adults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heh, indeed: Small Dead Animals edition.] Reference

If you're a male white-collar criminal, you can go to these work camps that are really not very prison-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2004] Reference

If you impede your players' attempts to balance real life and virtual life, they'll quit your prison-like world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Market Meltdown in Second Life?] Reference

They're described as very crude tattoos, prison-like tattoos that are sort of homemade and that's what they do now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003] Reference

I mean, there had been times in the past when mental hospitals kept people in prison-like conditions for far too long.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2008] Reference

They are putting the monks and nuns in prison-like conditions, depriving them the opportunity to study and practise in peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010] Reference

We drove away in a cab under that sepulchral prison-like portico; we had the glass down, it was raining so hard, and even he, whose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference

But critics say the Hutto family detention center in Texas is not appropriate for children, because of its prison-like environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2007] Reference

He says Iranian officials now have legal authority to begin moving unregistered refugees into detention camps with prison-like conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post Mortem Report; The Migration-Displacement Nexus in Pakistan « Gender Across Borders] Reference

Each house is lime-washed in various colors, and all are flat-roofed and provided with grated windows, giving them a prison-like appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

I didn't want to be in this prison-like environment, just everybody just doing everything they needed to to get prepared for all these tests.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2002] Reference

On the walls, a backdrop depicts the edge of the world from the film The Truman Show, the sham border around a prison-like reality TV universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [This week's new exhibitions] Reference

The isolated dwelling itself was by far the most gloomy object in the landscape -- grey and prison-like as most of the Irish houses of its class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

They're being locked up in harsh, prison-like facilities for misbehavior that in an earlier era would have warranted after-school detention or extra chores.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. Richard Cohen: Mass Incarceration of Children Must End] Reference

The gloomy and prison-like buildings loomed in heavy and sombre masses before the stranger, as he leaned from the carriage to deliver his order to the gatekeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

The streets, wide or narrow, would appear to us somewhat gloomy and prison-like; and paint is a thing scarcely known on the exterior or perhaps interior of an ordinary house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference

You can see that they are wearing -- well, you can't quite see it there with the banner, but they are wearing orange prison-like jumpsuits and, obviously, they are blindfolded.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005] Reference

The room with its disordered bed, drab walls dotted with sporting prints, dusty, rickety furnishings, threadbare carpet and grimy lace curtains, was a dreary, prison-like place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference