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1. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
   - jail, jailhouse, gaol [Brit], clink, slammer, poky, pokey
    
2. A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
   - prison house
    
3. A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
   - prison house

1. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
   - imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol [Brit], put away, remand
    
2. Confine as if in a prison
   - imprison

Derived forms: prisons, prisoning, prisoned

Type of: confine, correctional institution, detain, situation, state of affairs

Encyclopedia: Prison