visiting room
Guest reception area
A visiting room is a space in a prison, jail, or similar institution where inmates can meet with family, friends, or legal counsel.
The term implies controlled access and supervision—visitors and prisoners sit across tables or speak through glass partitions: They talked for an hour in the visiting room.
Also called a visitation room.
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- inmateConfined facility resident
- glassTransparent solid from sand
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
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- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- psych wardspsychiatric hospital, psych ward, mental ward, locked ward, padded cell
- asylumsinsane asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental institution, psychiatric hospital
- detention facilitiesjail, prison, cells, holding cell, inmates
visiting roomcell
Basic unit of life
prison cell · solitary confinement · isolation cell · the hole · detention cell
visiting roomsolitary confinement
Isolated imprisonment in cell
isolation ward · seclusion room · padded cell · lockup · oubliette
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