1816 Examiner 1 Sept. 552/1 Ah, first-born of thy mother..My bird when prison-bound, My hand in hand companion.

1869 Reformed Church Messenger 21 July 6/4 How many hundreds are there.., prison-bound by their narrow dwellings and the immediate neighborhood around them, breathing a miasmatized air!

1933 E. Younghusband Living Universe 124 Last night I lived a mean and abject thing, Content in bondage, glad and prison-bound.

2001 Mirror (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Features section) 5 He finds himself up against a five-star general.., who is now a prisoner and who sets about organising his prison-bound troops.

1886 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 27 Nov. 8 (caption) A fit subject for a pardon. The pathetic parting of a broken-down prison-bound counterfeiter and his little child friend at Louisville, KY.

1945 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 18 Sept. 8/7 Each was locked in different box-cars on the same prison-bound German train.

2004 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 8 Aug. Society can't simply throw up its hands, blame parents and continue to turn out poorly educated, prison-bound youth.