Prison
A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. Prisons conventionally are institutions authorized by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war. A prison system is the organizational arrangement of the provision and operation of prisons.
See also
- List of prisons
- Private prisons
- County jails
- Remand
- Penal colony
- Penology
- Prison abolition movement
- False imprisonment
- Prisons in the United States
- Life imprisonment
- Panopticon
- Penal labour
- Prison education
- Penal reform
- Prison Sexuality (Sodomy and sexual abuse in prison)
- Borstal
- Anton Praetorius in 1613 was one of the first to describe the terrible situation of the prisoners and to protest against torture.
- Alcatraz Island
- House arrest
- Community service
- Prison conditions
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