| 单词 | adjustment centre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadjustment centre adjustment centre n. U.S. a part of a prison reserved for the solitary confinement of prisoners. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > ward or division of prison > solitary confinement adjustment centre1955 1955 Proc. Congr. Amer. Correctional Assoc. 85 147 The term Adjustment Center has been introduced in the nomenclature of the prison system..to describe a facility with positive and constructive treatment objectives..quite the opposite of what..is designated..‘The Hole’, ‘The Shelf’, ‘Siberia’. 1987 A. H. Vachss Strega xlviii. 145 They put me in the hole... Guys spend fucking years in the hole. Only they call it the ‘Adjustment Center’. 2001 J. T. Hallinan Going up River vi. 79 Solitary confinement cells were no longer to be called ‘holes’... Instead they were to be called ‘adjustment centers’. < as lemmas |
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