| NOUN | state | prison house, prison | a prisonlike situation |
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| artifact | prison house, prison | a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment |
| Meaning | A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement. | |
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| Synonym | prison | |
| Broader | situation, state of affairs | The general state of things |
| Spanish | prisión | |
| Catalan | presó | |
| Meaning | A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment. | |
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| Synonym | prison | |
| Instances | Newgate | A former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780 |
| Parts | cellblock, ward | A division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) |
| Narrower | bastille | A jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) |
| chokey, choky | British slang (dated) for a prison | |
| nick | (British slang) a prison | |
| panopticon | A circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station | |
| state prison | A prison maintained by a state of the U.S. | |
| Broader | correctional institution | A penal institution maintained by the government |
| Spanish | cárcel, penitenciaría, prisión | |
| Catalan | presó | |
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