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prison
Synonyms and Antonyms of prison
- the 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, tank
glasshouse [British], guardhouse, hulk(s)
concentration camp, gulag, labor camp, prison camp, stalag, work camp
- the view that prison does nothing to cure the criminal—if anything, it makes him worse
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