Prison | Mean of prison in English Dictionary

/ˈprɪzn̩/

• Noun
• a building where people are kept as punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court
1. a state/federal prison
2. The state plans to build two more prisons.
3. He was in prison at the time.
4. If caught, they're all going to prison.
5. She was sent/sentenced to prison for robbery.
6. He was released from prison.
7. He's scheduled to get out of prison next month.
8. a prison cell
9. a prison guard
10. an investigation into prison conditions
11. an overhaul of the prison system
12. prison reform
13. the prison population
14. an eight-year prison sentence/term
15. prison time [=the time someone spends in prison]
• a place or situation from which you cannot escape
1. Her marriage became a prison to her.