military prison
Soldier detention facility
A military prison is a facility where armed forces personnel serve sentences for violations of military law.
These differ from civilian prisons in their administration and the crimes they address—desertion, insubordination, conduct unbecoming an officer.
He spent two years in a military prison for going AWOL.
Also called a stockade or brig, depending on the branch.
- brigShipboard detention quarters
- jailDetention facility
- behind barsIn jail
- guardhouseSentry post structure
- stockadeFence of sharpened stakes
maximum security · POW camp · court-martial · Leavenworth · Guantanamo · detention center · cell · penal colony · prisoner-of-war camp · Abu Ghraib · glasshouse · solitary confinement · bread and water · chain gang · war crimes · gaol · detainee · POW
- Military Justicecourt-martial, court martial, JAG, judge advocate, uniform code
- military facilitiescommand center, army base, air force base, headquarters, barracks
- military installationsbases, army base, forts, naval base, outposts
- military policeMP, MPs, shore patrol, provost, patrol duty
- military prisonsbrig, stockade, Leavenworth, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay
- POW campsPOW, POW camp, prisoners, prisoner, stockade
military prisonmilitary base
Armed forces facility
barracks · active duty · military academy · garrison · honorable discharge
military prisonfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · civilian life · free world · discharge · honorable discharge
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