Related Words for prison

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jail
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Noun
penitentiary
xx/xx
Noun
prisoner
/xx
Noun
gaol
x/
Noun
incarceration
xxx/x
Noun
imprison
x/x
Verb
inmate
/x
Noun
confinement
x/x
Noun
jailhouse
/x
Noun
gulag
/x
Noun
parole
x/
Noun
probation
x/x
Noun
warden
/x
Noun
warders
/x
Noun
jailers
/x
Noun
reformatory
x/xxx
Noun, Adjective
correction
x/x
Noun
convicts
/x
Noun
detention
x/x
Noun
workhouse
/x
Noun
penal
/x
Name
exile
/x
Noun
stockade
/x
Noun
captivity
x/xx
Noun
sentenced
/x
Verb
hospital
/xx
Noun
lockup
/x
Noun
criminal
/xx
Noun
correctional institution
x/xxxx/x
Name, Name
house of detention
//x/x
Phrase, Noun
correctional facility
x/xxx/xx
Name, Name
cell
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Noun
concentration camp
xx/x/
Phrase, Noun
solitary confinement
/xxxx/x
Phrase, Noun
prison camp
/x/
Phrase, Noun
police station
x//x
Phrase, Noun
black hole
//
Name, Name, Verb
penal colony
/x/xx
Name, Name
retention
x/x
Noun
bastille
/x
Name
house arrest
/x/
Phrase, Noun
hole
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Noun
facility
x/xx
Noun
camp
/
Noun
death camp
//
Phrase, Noun
house of correction
//x/x
Phrase, Noun
asylum
x/x
Noun
big house
//
Name, Name
death row
/x
Phrase, Noun
joint
/
Noun
reform school
x//
Phrase, Noun
compound
/x
Noun
institution
xx/x
Noun
dungeon
/x
Noun
lockdown
/x
Noun
block
/
Noun
crib
/
Noun
hell
/
Noun
bailey
/x
Name
precinct
/x
Noun
sanctuary
/xxx
Noun
guardhouse
/x
Noun
orphanage
/xx
Noun
cage
/
Noun
quarantine
/xx
Noun
boob
/
Noun
roundhouse
/x
Noun
home
/
Noun
shelter
/x
Noun
seclusion
x/x
Noun
limbo
/x
Noun
coop
/
Noun
sanatorium
/x/xx
Noun
icebox
/x
Noun
chapel
/x
Noun
cloister
/x
Noun
commissary
/xxx
Noun
lock
/
Noun
dispersal
x/x
Noun
infirmary
x/xx
Noun
house of refuge
//x/
Phrase, Noun
cemetery
/xxx
Noun
station
/x
Noun
counter
/x
Noun
chain gang
//
Phrase, Noun
hock
/
Noun
insane asylum
x/x/x
Phrase, Noun
panopticon
/xxx
Noun
furnace
/x
Noun
site
/
Noun
cooler
/x
Noun
room
/
Noun
halfway house
///
Phrase, Noun
newgate
/x
Adjective, Name
riot
/x
Adverb
broke
/
Adjective
committal
x/x
Noun
madhouse
/x
Noun
notebooks
/x
Verb
languishing
/xx
Verb
gallows
/x
Noun
overcrowding
/xxx
Verb
infamous
/xx
Adjective
felons
/x
Noun
notorious
x/xx
Adjective
leavenworth
/xx
Name
escapes
x/
Noun
provost
/x
Adjective
keeper
/x
Noun
get
/
Adjective
rot
/
Verb
loathsome
/x
Adjective
stint
/
Noun
dank
/
Adjective
storming
/x
Noun
carted
/x
Verb
release
x/
Noun
armory
/xx
Noun
arrest
x/
Noun, Verb
attica
/xx
Name
bad
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
bar
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
barrack
/x
Noun, Verb
blockhouse
/x
Noun
brig
/
Noun, Verb
brothel
/x
Noun
bully
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bunker
/x
Noun, Verb
centre
/x
Noun, Verb
chain
/
Noun, Verb
chino
/x
Name
civil
/x
Adjective, Name
clink
/
Noun, Verb
college
/x
Noun
confine
x/
Verb, Noun
conscript
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
corrective
x/x
Adjective, Noun
county
/x
Noun, Adjective
crime
/
Noun, Verb
custodial
x/xx
Adjective
custody
/xx
Noun
deadly
/x
Adjective, Adverb
deprivation
xx/x
Noun
detained
x/
Noun
detainee
xx/
Noun
dismal
/x
Adjective
dockyard
/x
Noun
dutch
/
Name, Adjective, Verb
easement
/x
Noun
encampment
x/x
Noun
entrapment
x/x
Noun
establishment
x/xx
Noun
factory
/xx
Noun, Adjective
fortress
/x
Noun, Verb
freedom
/x
Noun
french
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
gendarmerie
/xxx
Noun
graveyard
/x
Noun
guard
/
Noun, Verb
industrial
x/xx
Adjective, Name
inside
x/
Adverb, Noun, Adjective
internment
x/x
Noun
ips
/
Noun, Adjective
ives
/
Name
liberty
/xx
Noun
monastery
/xxx
Noun
monastic
x/x
Adjective, Noun
monk
/
Noun, Verb
offender
x/x
Noun
pen
/
Noun, Verb
penalty
/xx
Noun
pokey
/x
Noun, Adjective
possession
x/x
Noun, Verb
punish
/x
Verb
punishment
/xx
Noun
remand
x/
Noun, Verb
scary
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
servitude
/xx
Noun
slam
/
Noun, Verb
state prison
//x
Phrase, Noun
stir
/
Verb, Noun
stretch
/
Noun, Verb
term
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
time
/
Noun, Verb
wall
/
Noun, Verb
ward
/
Noun, Verb
wrong
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
aisle
/
Noun
closet
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
oh
/
Noun, Verb
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb
maypole
/x
Noun, Verb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
save
/
Verb, Noun
girly
/x
Adjective, Noun
cloth
/
Noun
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
breakeven
/xx
Verb, Noun, Adjective
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
pidgin
/x
Noun
stovepipe
/x
Noun, Verb
headlines
/x
Noun