- prison, prison house - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
--1 is a kind of correctional institution
--1 has parts: cellblock, ward
--1 has particulars:camp; chokey, choky; college; panopticon; state prison - prison, prison house - a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
--2 is a kind of situation, state of affairs