state prison

基本解释

Though Murray faced up to four years in state prison, it isn't clear how much time he will actually serve.
尽管默里面临着州立监狱最高四年的有期徒刑，但他实际上会服刑多长时间目前尚不清楚。
A former state prison in Illinois has been chosen, but that centre cannot be opened until Congress authorises funding for it.
伊利诺斯州之前的一座州监狱已被选中，但是在国会批准拨款之前该中心尚不能开放。
Todd Pustelnik, currently a prison guard at Thomson, worried the proposed sale could jeopardize his job because the federal and state prison systems have different requirements.
目前就在汤姆森监狱担任狱警的托德·帕斯特尼克，担心这项计划中德出售计划将危急自己的工作，因为联邦和州监狱系统有不同的要求。

Today we tell you about one of the few prisons in America that offer college-level classes: San Quentin State Prison in California.
The Lomaxes found one of these "folk geniuses" at the state prison in Angola, Louisiana,in nineteen thirty-three.
They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

Federal prisons are not facing the same overcrowding problems that are plaguing many state prison systems.
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