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prisonlike

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Adj.1.prisonlike - resembling a prison
unfree - hampered and not free; not able to act at will


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The report reflected a lawless prisonlike culture where gangs of older boys imposed a vicious rule.
From certain angles, the shadows converged to construct a prisonlike enclosure.
Consider, for instance, an impassioned editorial written in response to reports on factory farming that were recently issued by the Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, 2008) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (Gurian-Sherman, 2008): As both of these reports make clear, the so-called efficiency of industrial animal production is an illusion, made possible by cheap grain, cheap water and prisonlike confinement systems.
 
 
 
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