Task 2. Vocabulary

The picture expresses the limits of freedom for some people in our society. But still the people behind these wired fences also lead a life - they serve a sentence. They work, study, do sport, have visitors, communicate, etc.

Look at the list of words below and check the meaning of unknown words.

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  • serve a sentence
  • correspond to
  • inmate
  • range from
  • closed institution
  • allowance
  • pay for overtime
  • piecework
  • be exempted from
  • full-time/part-time
  • permission
  • be obliged to
  • open section
  • restriction
  • misuse
  • be inspected
  • attorney
  • probation
  • supervise
  • convicted prisoner
  • apply for
  • life imprisonment
  • grant
  • be entitled to
  • remand prisoner
  • regulations
  • release on parole
  • readjust
  • maintain order
  • breach of discipline
  • drug abuse
  • infraction
  • solitary confinement (punishment cell)