Federal Bureau of Prisons
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- proper noun
- Formal
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Buró Federal de Prisiones
- The menu of the Federal Bureau of Prisons stipulates 3,000 calories a day, of which 13 percent are from protein, 30 percent from fat, and 57 percent from carbohydrates (Metropolitan Detention Center Los Angeles 2016).
- Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Federal Bureau of Prisons, a Justice
- director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Examples
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The Department of Justice, on behalf of the federal Bureau of Prisons, today filed documents in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Rockford to acquire Thomson Correctional Center at a price of $165 million, which falls between two federal appraisals.
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Many policies regarding inmate welfare are determined by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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See @long for the Food Service Manual released by the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, September 13, 2011.
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On top of this, the prison industry is expecting major growth over the next few years, as a "new prison opens every week somewhere in America" and Obama commits more tax dollars for the federal Bureau of Prisons.
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For over a decade, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and a number of state systems have sought to reduce sodium and saturated fat in prison food in order to improve the health status of prisoners.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons reacted by converting Marion into a disciplinary institution to confine inmates considered escape risks or especially dangerous.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons and some state prisons undertake an annual survey to find out what food inmates desire, which items in the current diet appeal most, and what selections they despise, in order to reduce waste, complaints, and unrest.
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Four of the five defendants are now serving sentences in a Communication Management Unit, or CMU, an "experimental" detention facility outside of oversight from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, where two-thirds of the inmates are Arab and/or Muslim.
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"At the direction of President Obama, the Department of Justice, on behalf of the federal Bureau of Prisons, filed paperwork today in the federal courthouse in Rockford to finalize the $165 million transfer of Thomson to the federal system," said Durbin.
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The inmates were transferred to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for serving their sentences.
Synonyms
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The agency that runs federal prisons in the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
federal + bureau + of + prison
The phrase is fully compositional: 'federal' (relating to the national government) + 'bureau' (an official agency) + 'of prisons' (responsible for prisons) directly yields the meaning 'the national agency that runs federal prisons.' This naming pattern is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks into three clear parts: Federal meaning 'national', Bureau meaning 'office', and Prisons meaning 'jails'. So the name paints the picture of one national office that runs the country's federal jails, and that's why it refers to the government office in charge of federal prisons.