Definition of prison
Nouns
a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
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- prison house
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Newgate
a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902
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bastille
a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
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chokey, choky
British slang (dated) for a prison
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nick
(British slang) a prison
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panopticon
a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
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state prison
a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.
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correctional institution
a penal institution maintained by the government
a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
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- prison house
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situation, state of affairs
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
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