state prison

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   a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.

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Questions about state prison

What does state prison mean?

state prison means "a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.".

Is state prison a common word?

state prison is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.