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prisonsnounpl. of prison a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodythe ongoing debate whether drug users should go to prison bastilles, big houses(slang), bridewells, brigs, calabooses, cans, clinks(slang), coolers, coops, guardrooms, hocks, holds, hoosegows, jailhouses, jails, joints(slang), jugs, lockups, nicks(British slang), penitentiaries, pens, pokeys(slang), quods(British slang), slammers, slams, stirs(slang), stockades, tolbooths(Scottish) bull pens, cages, cells, holes, tanksblocks, wardsglasshouses(British), guardhouses, hulksconcentration camps, gulags, labor camps, prison camps, stalags, work campsdungeons, keeps, oubliettesreformatories, reform schools, training schools outsides 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 captivities, confinements, immurements, impoundments, imprisonments, incarcerations, internments bondages, enslavements, servitudesrestraints, restrictionsarrests, captures, entrapmentscustodies, detainers, detainments, detentions, house arrests emancipations, liberations, manumissions, redemptions, releasesfreedoms, independences, liberties |