Prison and Punishment

• administration segregation
• amnesty
• bastinado
• behind bars
• big house
• bilboes
• black hole
• break
• brig
• cage
• calaboose
• can
• cangue
• capital punishment
• captive
• cat-o’-nine-tails
• cell
• cellblock
• chain gang
• chair
• city hotel
• clemency
• clink
• commitment
• commute
• con
• concentration camp
• condemned
• confinement
• conjugal visit
• convict
• cooler
• coop
• correctional institution
• count
• county jail
• death penalty
• death row
• debtor’s prison
• detention facility
• dime
• do time drunk tank
• dungeon
• electric chair
• electrocution
• ex-con
• execution
• executioner
• false imprisonment
• firing squad
• fish
• slogging
• gas chamber
• gibbet
• guillotine
• hack
• hanging
• hangman
• hitch
• holding cell
• hole
• house arrest
• house of correction
• house of detention
• incarceration
• injection
• inmate
• inside
• jacket
• Jack Ketch
• jail
• jailbird
• jailer
• jailhouse lawyer
• joint
• jug
• keeper
• kite
• knout
• lam
• lifer
• life sentence
• lockdown
• lynching
• man
• maximum-security prison
• medium-security prison
• mittimus
• mule
• nickel
• on ice
• oubliette
• pardon
• parole
• parolee
• pen
• penal
• penal colony
• penal institution
• penitentiary
• pillory
• poky
• political prisoner
• population
• POW
• prison
• prisoner
• prisoner of war
• prison riot
• probation
• protective
• custody
• punishment
• punk
• quarter
• rack
• rat
• recidivism
• reformatory
• reform school
• rehabilitation
• reprieve
• segregation
• sentence
• serve time
• shakedown
• short time
• slammer
• solitary confinement
• stir
• stockade
• stocks
• street
• tank
• tar and feather
• time
• torture
• trusty
• turnkey
• up the river
• violate
• warden
• warder
• ward of the state
• water torture
• whipping
• work camp
• work farm
• yard
• yardbird
• yard hack