prison
State-run lockup facility
A prison is a building where people are confined as punishment for crimes.
Prisons hold those serving sentences; jails typically hold those awaiting trial or serving short terms, though the words often blur.
Prison extends to any confining situation: Her marriage felt like a prison.
To imprison is to put someone in prison or confine them generally.
Basic unit of life
- inmateConfined facility resident
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- lockupTemporary detention facility
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
convict · sentence · guard · custody · solitary · shackles · captive · captivity
Facility for convicted criminals
- jailDetention facility
- detention centerPlace for confining detainees
- brigShipboard detention quarters
- stockadeFence of sharpened stakes
gulag · concentration camp · labor camp · internment camp · reformatory · workhouse · oubliette · gaol
Complete thought, grammatically
- hard laborStrenuous punitive work
- chain gangShackled convict work crew
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- executionCompleting a planned task
flogging · bread and water · isolation · discipline · segregation · lockdown · restricted · penalty
Sudden escape from restraint
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- manhuntSearch for a suspect
- fleeDepart swiftly from threat
shackles · ladder · rope · disguise · evasion · accomplice · contraband · fence
Aimed at rehabilitation
- facilitySkill or equipped premises
- federalDivided governmental authority
- stateCondition or mode
- maximum-securityHighest level of incarceration
minimum-security · supermax · private · warden · administration · bureau · population · complex
Recovery from injury/addiction
- recidivismHabitual return to crime
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- reintegrationRestoration to a group
- restorativePromoting return to health
education · therapy · counseling · reentry · advocacy · abolition · alternatives · diversion
Judicial examination of claims
- verdictOfficial court decision
- sentencingImposing legal punishment
- convictionFirmly held belief
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
judge · jury · defendant · prosecution · defense · appeal · parole · probation
cell
Basic unit of life
warden · convict · sentence · guard · custody · solitary · shackles · captive · captivity · detention
penitentiary
Facility for convicted criminals
- jailDetention facility
- detention centerPlace for confining detainees
- brigShipboard detention quarters
stockade · gulag · concentration camp · labor camp · internment camp · reformatory · workhouse · oubliette · gaol · remand center
sentence
Complete thought, grammatically
- hard laborStrenuous punitive work
- chain gangShackled convict work crew
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
execution · flogging · bread and water · isolation · discipline · segregation · lockdown · restricted · penalty · time served
breakout
Sudden escape from restraint
flee · shackles · ladder · rope · disguise · evasion · accomplice · contraband · fence · searchlight
correctional
Aimed at rehabilitation
maximum-security · minimum-security · supermax · private · warden · administration · bureau · population · complex · compound
rehabilitation
Recovery from injury/addiction
- recidivismHabitual return to crime
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- reintegrationRestoration to a group
restorative · education · therapy · counseling · reentry · advocacy · abolition · alternatives · diversion · decarceration
trial
Judicial examination of claims
- verdictOfficial court decision
- sentencingImposing legal punishment
- convictionFirmly held belief
acquittal · judge · jury · defendant · prosecution · defense · appeal · parole · probation · hearing
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, crime, guilty
- justicecourtroom, trials, retributive justice, courts, gavel
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, warden, cellmate
- prisonsinmates, cells, penitentiary, guards, Alcatraz
- secteur publicpolice, justice, tribunal, musee, douane
- captivitycaptive, detained, incarcerated, confinement, jail
prisonfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · release · liberation · emancipation · free world
prisonfreedom
Absence of constraint
paradise · heaven · liberation · open road · wide open spaces
- prison cellLocked room for inmates
- prison breakEscape from custody
- in prisonConfined for crimes
- prison sentenceMandated period of incarceration
- prisoner of warDetained military personnel
- take no prisonersPursue victory without mercy
prisoner, imprison, imprisoned, imprisonment, prisons, prisoners, imprisoning, prison guard, imprisons