A prison is a place of incarceration, where convicted criminals are punished for their crimes, and where counseling, retraining and work opportunities are provided in order to correct or rehabilitate their criminal behaviors.
A prison is not a jail or a detention facility (generally where people who have not been convicted of any crime are "detained").
Prison(s) or The Prison(s) may also refer to:
Film and television Prison (1949 film), a Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman Prison (1987 film), an American film directed by Renny Harlin The Prison (2017 film), a South Korean film Prison: First & Last 24 Hours, a 2015–2016 British television documentary series Prisons (film), a 2024 Finnish action film directed by Esa Jussila "The Prison", an episode of Armchair Cinema
Music The Prison: A Book with a Soundtrack, an album by Michael Nesmith, 1974 Prisons (album), by Eyes of Fire, 2006 "Prison" (Natalia Gordienko song), 2020 "Prison", a song by Tom Robinson, 1985 The Prison, a 1929–30 cantata composed by Ethel Smyth
Other uses The Prison (novel), a 1968 novel by Georges Simenon Qaid Khana (), a 1942 short story collection by Ahmed Ali Prisons F.C., a Tanzanian football club Imaginary Prisons, or simply Prisons, a series of 18th-century prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
See also En prison, a roulette term False imprisonment, a crime in common law Prison Oval, a Jamaican stadium Prison rock, pessimistic genre of Chinese rock music Prison Song (disambiguation) Spirit prison, in Latter-day Saints beliefs, a place in the spirit world Spirits in prison, one of the Christian concepts about the afterlife