state prison
Felons' long-term facility
A state prison is a correctional facility operated by a state government for people convicted of serious crimes, typically felonies.
Distinguished from federal prisons (which hold those convicted of federal crimes) and local jails (which hold people awaiting trial or serving short sentences): He was sentenced to five years in state prison.
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- correctionalAimed at rehabilitation
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- gen popStandard prison housing
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
cells · cell block · bars · guards · sentenced · life sentence · felony · incarceration · doing time · hard time · yard · lockdown · convicted · jumpsuit · razor wire · block · solitary · death row
- California governmentlegislature, executive branch, judicial branch, governor, lieutenant governor
- Prison Memoirsdoing time, behind bars, hard time, escape stories, wrongful conviction
- state buildingsstatehouse, capitol, governor's mansion, rotunda, legislative chamber
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, warden, cellmate
- prisonsinmates, cells, penitentiary, guards, Alcatraz
- California PrisonsSan Quentin, Alcatraz, correctional facilities, death row, cell block
state prisonfederal prison
National incarceration facility
county jail · military prison · city jail · juvenile detention
state prisonfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · free world · civilian life · open society · home
state prisonsanctuary
Protected sacred space
refuge · shelter · rehabilitation center · community center · public housing
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