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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.

Contents

• Film and television
• Music
• Other uses
• See also

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), an upcoming Finnish action film directed by Esa Jussila

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
• 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

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