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prisonnoun a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodythe ongoing debate whether drug users should go to prison bastille, big house(slang), bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, clink(slang), cooler, coop, guardroom, hock, hold, hoosegow, jail, jailhouse, joint(slang), jug, lockup, nick(British slang), pen, penitentiary, pokey(slang), quod(British slang), slam, slammer, stir(slang), stockade, tolbooth(Scottish) bull pen, cage, cell, hole, tankblock, wardglasshouse(British), guardhouse, hulk(s)concentration camp, gulag, labor camp, prison camp, stalag, work campdungeon, keep, oubliettereformatory, reform school, training school outside the act of confining or the state of being confinedthe view that prison does nothing to cure the criminal—if anything, it makes him worse captivity, confinement, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment bondage, enslavement, servituderestraint, restrictionarrest, capture, entrapmentcustody, detainer, detainment, detention, house arrest emancipation, liberation, manumission, redemption, releasefreedom, independence, liberty in the 12th century |