women's prison
Ladies' correctional facility
A women's prison is a correctional facility that houses female inmates.
These institutions are far less common than men's prisons, reflecting the smaller female prison population.
Women's prisons appear frequently in entertainment—the "women in prison" genre trades on fantasies of confined female sexuality: She starred in several women's prison films in the 1970s.
- incarceratedConfined in prison
- locked upConfined or secured
- doing timeServing a prison sentence
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- cellsBasic biological units
cell block · bars · behind bars · correctional · facility · guards · jumpsuit · visitation · phone privileges · conjugal visit · good behavior · sentence · lockdown · yard · bunks · warden · Orange Is the New Black · commissary
- prisonsinmates, cells, penitentiary, guards, Alcatraz
- women's spacessorority house, convent, nunnery, maternity ward, lactation room
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, warden, cellmate