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Lesson 11
Prison cell
People involved in a crime who are proven guilty are commonly put
in a prison cell, or a jail. It refers to a building for confinement of criminals.
A prison cell is a place of restraint. Once you are put here, you are called
a prisoner. In present times, a prisoner may possess personal things in
appropriate quantities in their prison areas, such as a television set, books,
clothing, food and luxury items.
Comprehension
1. What is commonly done to people who are proven guilty?
2. How are the imprisoned people called?
Questions
1. Are the suspected people automatically put to jail?
2. When will a person go behind bars?
3. During these times, can a prisoner have some recreational activities or
things inside the prison cell?
Vocabulary & Expressions
possess - to have as an attribute or to have as property.
confinement - imprisonment.
criminal - person guilty of a crime.
restraint - a state wherein a person cannot practice the things that he enjoys given by freedom.
luxury - a condition of abundance or great ease and comfort.
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