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• n  the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)

• During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic was there; eight contributors filed on-the-scene reports from London's Heathrow Airport during the August 2006 terrorism lockdownwhile the .
• The prisoner may spend 23 hours a day in lockdown, emerging to exercise once a day.
• If that attitude seems churlish, remember that the lockdown is just the latest in a long line of setbacks they have endured this year.

News & Articles

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• School lockdown at Sandy Creek Academy; no danger to students
  A school lockdown in Orleans County. It's at the Sandy Creek Academy, a private school in Holley...
  June 13, 2013 - News 10 NBC Rochester
• Hilltop Elementary in Chichester on lockdown; cops say incident report was unfounded
  ASTON - Hilltop Elementary School was placed on lockdown after a report of some kind of incident at the school.
  June 13, 2013 - Delaware County Daily Times
• Lockdown lifted for two Bladen Co. schools, no gun on campus
  Authorities say a lockdown has been lifted for Bladenboro Middle School and Bladenboro Primary School, and there was no gun on either campus.
  June 10, 2013 - WECT 6 Wilmington

Quotes

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• Peter Hill-Wood in Manchester.com
  Club chairman Peter Hill-Wood said: "Members of the board are committed long-term shareholders. And to strengthen the current position they have entered into a new agreement which replaces the existing lockdown agreement which expires next April."
• Phil Spector in Rolling Stone
  In a hand-written letter to a pen pal that was posted by Gawker, Spector says that the "24/7 lockdown life is slowly driving me insane and killing me," complains that his wife Rachelle has not been allowed to visit him behind bars and rails...