A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, and slammer, is...

Sednaya Prison (Arabic: سجن صيدنايا, romanized: Sijn Ṣaydnāyā), nicknamed the "Human Slaughterhouse" (المسلخ البشري), was a military prison and death...

Prison Break is an American crime drama television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox. The series revolves around two brothers: Lincoln Burrows (Dominic...

Mezzeh prison (Arabic: سجن المزة) is a now-defunct Syrian prison overlooking the capital, Damascus. Mezzeh (also transcribed as al-Mazzah, el-Mezze etc...

maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain...

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment performed during August 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment...

Tadmor prison (Arabic: سجن تدمر) was located in Palmyra (Tadmor in Arabic) in the deserts of eastern Syria approximately 200 kilometers northeast of Damascus...

Prison Break is a 2005–2017 American TV serial drama Prison break may refer to: Prison breakout, a prison escape Prison Break: The Final Break, a 2009...

Adra Prison (Arabic: سجن عدرا) was a prison in Syria, on the northeast outskirts of Damascus. Political prisoners are held in the prison, along with a...

Prison camp may refer to: Internment (concentration camp or internment camp) Federal prison camp, low-security facility among those on list of U.S. federal...

The fifth and final season of Prison Break (also known as Prison Break: Resurrection) is a limited event television series and a revival of the original...

Pri­son Break is an American serial drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on August 29, 2005, and finished its fifth season on May...

This is a list of characters in the American television series Prison Break. The characters are listed alphabetically by their last name or by the name...

A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt. Until the mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses)...

46°48′47″E / 24.449°N 46.813°E / 24.449; 46.813 (Al-Ha'ir Prison) Al-Ha'ir Prison (Arabic: سجن الحاير), also known as al-Hayer al-Hayar or al-Haer...

list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): Alabama...

private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies...

13°11′07″E / 52.52111°N 13.18528°E / 52.52111; 13.18528 Spandau Prison was a former military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin (present-day...

Prison Planet may refer to: "Escape from the Prison Planet", a song by Clutch from the album Clutch Prison Planet, a 2008 album by the East Coast Avengers...

Prison slang is an argot used primarily by criminals and detainees in correctional institutions. It is a form of anti-language. Many of the terms deal...

Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum-security prison for men operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision...

The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum, was a prison (carcer) with a dungeon (oubliette) located in the Comitium...

Changi Prison Complex, often known simply as Changi Prison, is a prison complex in the namesake district of Changi in the eastern part of Singapore. It...

Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west-southwest...

A prison furlough is an authorized temporary release granted to a prison inmate. Prisoners on furlough may be allowed to leave unescorted, but, if accompanied...

The second season of Prison Break, an American serial drama television series, commenced airing in the United States on August 21, 2006, on Mondays at...

A military prison is a prison operated by a military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, unlawful combatants, those whose...

The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...

His Majesty's Prisons (Her Majesty's Prisons in the case of a female monarch) is the name given to prisons in the United Kingdom, as well as some in Australia...

people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. The United States has the largest known prison population in the world. It has 5% of the...