History Main / NoPrisonSegregation

* Played with in ''Film/SuicideSquad'' and ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''. Belle Reve houses both men and women (and whatever Weasel is), but unlike most super prisons in media, its shown that they're kept in separate wings much like real prisons are, and for cases like Harley Quinn, are kept secluded in their own cell away from everyone else. Still, when it comes time to go out on their mission in the first film, Harley is brought in with the men and proceeds to change right in front of all of them, and in the sequel, when recruiting Ratcatcher 2, Waller brings Peacemaker and Bloodsport with her into the female wing, where ''they'' get oogled and cat-called by the women.

* Whenever they get arrested, the various villains and criminals in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' are seen in the same prisons together with other people, regardless if they're men, women, children, or even non-human characters.

* ''Film/MinorityReport'' has convicts stored in vertical tubes set into the lobby floor. New inmates and those being released are routed through this lobby. Convicts are stacked four to a tube, regardless of sex. They don't move much, as they're kept in a coma-like state using neuro-suppression devices, colloquially called "halos".

* The treatment of UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} inmates is a ''very'' touchy subject based on jurisdiction. In most countries, trans people are incarcerated in the prison of their biological sex even if they've been living and presenting as their target gender for years. As one might imagine, trans women in men's prisons are ''very'' often victims of rape. However, there is a small but increasing number of countries that incarcerate trans persons in prisons of their target gender if they are legally recognized as such.

** Which, unfortunately, has sometimes led to the opposite problem occurring.

In RealLife, modern prisons prefer to have separate facilities for male, female, and juvenile inmates (which are also divided by gender), with no combinations thereof for prisoner safety. This includes concerns over PrisonRape, conflicts over potential romantic partners, and minimizing the chance of inmates becoming pregnant (a logistical nightmare even ''with'' separate women's prisons). Many works of fiction tend to ignore these potential issues, and instead depict inmates of different genders and/or ages in prisons who shouldn't legally be allowed to stay together.

* Green Dolphin Street Prison from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' is seemingly unisex, having both male and female inmates sharing the same facility, altough the dorms are still segregated by gender.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': [[TheAlcatraz Impel Down]] is apparently co-ed. As with soldiers and pirate crews, [[MenAreTheExpendableGender all the incidental inmates are male]], but Catarina Devon was held on Level Six and characters speculated Nico Robin was being sent there during the Enies Lobby arc (which wasn't the case, but not because of her gender). This is setting aside a sizable portion group of the prisoners being [[DragQueen newkama]] whose leader [[GenderBender can change their sex at will]], but appear to all be assigned male.

* In both the [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]] and the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, prisons meant to hold supervillains appear to house all manners of people by default. DC's [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Blackgate]], [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad Belle Reve]] and [[ComicBook/TheFlash Iron Heights]], as well as Marvel's Ryker's Island and the Raft are all mixed. Although, DependingOnTheWriter, prisoners might be kept in separate wings based on gender, or contained in their cells full-time.

** {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The Dent Act allows the Gotham Department of Corrections to make exceptions to gender segregation on a case-by-case basis. They put Catwoman in Blackgate Prison with the men because she has a history of escaping from women's prisons, including once as a juvenile.

* Pictured above is the Kyln in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', a massive space prison that holds people of different genders and species. This makes sense, given that it needs to hold everything from tree-people to humans -- a simple male/female divide would probably not work. And, as Rocket explains, the guards are there to keep them from escaping, but nobody in charge cares what the inmates do to each other.
* ''Film/MinorityReport'' has convicts stored in vertical tubes set into the lobby floor. New inmates and those being released are routed through this lobby. Convicts are stacked four to a tube, regardless of gender. They don't move much, as they're kept in a coma-like state using neuro-suppression devices, colloquially called "halos".

* Zigzagged with the PenalColony in ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars''. There are three sections: One male only, one female only, and one unisex. Part of the requirements for moving from the single gender sections to the unisex section is agreeing to be sterilized so that the guards don't have to worry about children complicating the resource needs of a prison planet dependent on external food drops.

* On Earth Shin in ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', prisons are communal and are not segregated by gender or age. Because family values are serious business in Shin, in some cases a prisoner's family will live with them during their sentence.

* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'': Dylan and Rommie are charged with sedition and sent to a PrivateProfitPrison where all prisoners regardless of gender or species are allowed to roam freely inside the facility. They learn that prisoners actually have children who are born and spend their entire lives inside the prison, which they justify by saying that criminal behavior is hereditary.

* ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Emerald City has a deliberately racially diverse (though not gender diverse) population as part of an experiment with prison rehabilitation. This is basically a plot device given the disproportionate African American populace of real prisons.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Downplayed in series VIII. The Tank takes prisoners regardless of gender, and there is a lot of mixing between men and women, however individual cells have either men or women inmates. With the exception of Kryten and Kochanski's cell, as the space corps decides the gender of inmates based on their genitalia.

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' features Avril Mead, who was [[ContrivedCoincidence conveniently]] found guilty of flying an unidentified aircraft during wartime operations on the very day that war was declared against the Kingdom of Erusia. She is sent to the 444th Osean penal unit because she's a great aircraft mechanic. Every other prisoner in the 444th is a male pilot, but her gender is a complete non-issue.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'', the ''Mansfield Break'' story zig-zags this with the titular Mansfield Prison. There isn't any gender separation, so male and female guards and prisoners are in the same cell blocks. However, there is segregation in that normal, healthy prisoners are kept in a separate cell block from the Infected, who suffer from the terminal disease Oripathy.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': A ship that's a mobile prison is the location where Jack is picked up. It's a privately-run prison that houses dangerous inmates as long as someone pays for them to be kept there. Some are kept in cells, others (such as Jack) are kept in [[HumanPopsicle cryostasis]]. Given the number of different aliens kept there, and the fact that some of them have biotic powers, it makes sense to not bother trying to segregate by gender, though if you talk to Jack she'll confirm that prison rape is a huge threat (though she had too frightening of a reputation for most of them to bother her). A male prisoner talks euphemistically about sexual assault, saying they would take one's "pride", suggesting gender was not a barrier to assault in that prison anyway.

** The prison rig which houses the Earth benders is not divided by gender or age.

* Arkham in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', although as mentioned in the comics section technically a mental asylum, is mixed-gender. In episode "Joker's Wild" is seen how the television room is shared by immates of both gender (Joker even makes unwanted flirtings with Ivy).

* The treatment of UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} inmates is a ''very'' touchy subject based on jurisdiction. In most countries, trans people are incarcerated in the prison of their birth sex even if they've been living and presenting as their target gender for years. As one might imagine, trans women in men's prisons are ''very'' often victims of rape. However, there is a small but increasing number of countries that incarcerate trans persons in prisons of their target gender if they are legally recognized as such.

* In both the [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]] and the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, prisons meant to hold supervillains appear to house all manners of people by default. DC's [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Blackgate]], [[Franchise/SuicideSquad Belle Reve]] and [[Franchise/TheFlash Iron Heights]], as well as Marvel's Ryker's Island and the Raft are all mixed. Although, DependingOnTheWriter, prisoners might be kept in separate wings based on gender, or contained in their cells full-time.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': The Phantom Zone is a pocket dimension that has long been used as a prison, to prevent very powerful villains from escaping back into our world. There's only one Phantom Zone, so anyone who needs to be kept there goes to the same place. However, while the inmates can communicate, being intangible they cannot physically interact with one another in the Zone.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/FlatDreams'', Bil is imprisoned in the Infinetentiary. Not only does the prison house both male and female prisoners, Bill is even assigned a female cellmate-- Pyronica.

[[caption-width-right:350:What kind of hellhole keeps men, women, and [[CivilizedAnimal raccoons]] in the same place?]]]]

* The only actual coed prisons to exist to date were: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Center,_Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Center,_San_Diego Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonthong_Prison Phonthong Prison]].

* The only actual coed prisons to exist to date were: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Center,_Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Center,_San_Diego Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonthong_Prison Phonthong Prison].

* In ''Videogame/{{Arknights}}'', the ''Mansfield Break'' story zig-zags this with the titular Mansfield Prison. There isn't any gender separation, so male and female guards and prisoners are in the same cell blocks. However, there is segregation in that normal, healthy prisoners are kept in a separate cell block from the Infected, who suffer from the terminal disease Oripathy.

* Notably {{Averted}} in ''{{WesternAnimation/Young Justice}}'' in Belle Reve, a maximum security metahuman prison. Aside from the inhibitor collars individually designed to neutralize each metahuman inmate and the massive floor-mounted machine guns pointing into every common area, it functions much like a normal prison. A multi-villain plan to spring a massive jailbreak required ice villains Icicle Jr., Captain Cold, and Mr. Freeze to enter the male wing and Killer Frost to enter the female wing, so they could work together from both sides.

* Zigzagged with the PenalColony in ''Literature/BannerOfTheStars''. There are three sections: One male only, one female only, and one unisex. Part of the requirements for moving from the single gender sections to the unisex section is agreeing to be sterilized so that the guards don't have to worry about children complicating the resource needs of a prison planet dependent on external food drops.

* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'': The Fun Dungeon, a building originally established in the episode "Funishment", was meant to be used to punish both male and female Trolls, and it overloads with them in the episode's climax part before finally being left unused. In "Party Crashed", the Party Crashers also kept Poppy (female) and Branch (male) together in the dungeon upon capturing them.

* Pictured above is the Kyln in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', a massive space prison that holds people of different genders and species. This makes sense, given that it needs to hold everything from tree-people to humans -- a simple male/female divide would probably not work.

* ''Literature/Worldwar''. The Race invade Earth in the midst of World War 2, and imprison their human captives together regardless of what side they are on. In China that means the Chinese massacre the now unarmed Japanese captives.