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* Early in Book 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the four members of the Red Lotus get one of these each. Each one is tailor made to restrict their abilities. [[spoiler:The cells worked for over 15 years and even then they only failed because their leader gained Air Bending, through what was basically a miracle.]]

* The Rubber Prison in ''VideoGame/BugFables'' is a prison maintained by the Ant Kingdom inside an [[MouseWorld old tire]] in Bugaria's Metal Sea. On top of only being accessible by boat, many of the halls are blocked off by multiple locked doors that require elaborate steps to open. When the Wasps take over the Rubber Prison, they release many of the inmates to impede Team Snakemouth.

* In ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 4'', Stage 2, Police Precint, takes place in a prison. In this stage, Axel, Blaze, Floyd, and Cherry have been arrested by the police and once they break out, they have to fight both the prison guards and members of the Syndicate. The boss of the stage is the Commissioner, whom they fight in his office.

-->--''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' has the Vindicare Prison. A place where those who break TheMafia law, are kept in a comatose state in liquid PeopleJars for eternity. Only known people to escape are [[MagnificentBastard Mukuro]] and his group. However, it is shown that someone on the outside can negotiate someone out through a deal.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Tartarus]], a prison designed to contain supervillains. It has a rather impressive track record, considering that this is a world without any conveniently available PowerNullifier, [[HellholePrison but it certainly violates a long list of human rights and Geneve conventions]]. Its most high-profile prisoner, [[BigBad All for One]] is kept immobilized with his brainwaves and heart rate monitored at all times. His cell is bare, except for the guns that will automatically kill him if his heartrate ever increases or he so much as ''considers'' escaping.

[[caption-width-right:350:Heh, yeah, good luck with that.]]

* The Stronghold supervillain prison in the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' TabletopRPG.

Extra-dangerous prisoners are sent to the Stone Ward, where they are [[TakenForGranite petrified]] for the duration of their stay. ''Incredibly'' dangerous prisoners get sent to the Deep Ward, which lies at the bottom of a frictionless pit accessed through a single cableless elevator, and is kept in complete darkness at all times (relying on the dwarf guards' ability to see in the dark). Each cell in the Deep Ward is a {{Tailor Made Prison}} with features such as [[AntiMagic magic negation]], sound negation or indestructible walls... and some of the inhabitants are petrified too, just for good measure.
* Corregidor in ''TabletopGame/{{Infinity}}''.
* The Buckner Ridge Correctional Facility in the ''Lockdown'' supplement for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' serves this role with a combination of powered guards and power nullification technology.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''
** Sigil's prison is simply called The Prison, and it's ''very'' secure. (It was also where the Mercykillers, the group in charge of corrections, made their headquarters in the city.) The Mercykillers have an even more secure prison for the ''worst'' criminals called The Vault in Carceri. (How secure is it? Let me put it this way, Carceri is what planar beings call the place that mortals from the Prime Material Plane call Tartarus. Yep, the very same place where the Titans are locked up). And if a criminal does something where the Lady of Pain herself has to intervene (which is rare; she only does so if someone does something that catches her attention, like trying to let the gods into Sigil, trying to worship her, or causing so much unrest and chaos that people no longer feel safe) there are the Mazes, dimensional labyrinths that she imprisons transgressors in. Essentially, this is a life sentence of solitary confinement, but there is a way out; it's just very difficult to fine. (Note that this is considered the ''lenient'' sentence. Offenders who catch her in a bad mood are flayed alive by her shadow, an act which leaves the target DeaderThanDead.)
** The Splat book ''Fiendish Codex II: Hordes of the Abyss'' mentions the 73rd layer of the Abyss, the Wells of Darkness. This place contains many inky, black pools of thick liquid, each one a TailorMadePrison for a very powerful and destructive demon or EldritchAbomination that was sealed here by a Demon Lord, god, or group of gods. The most dangerous prisoner here is Apep, the King of Serpents who once daily challenged the [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian god Ra]] on his journey through the Twelve Hours of Night. Security is maintained by demonic zombies called bodaks, and some of the wells have additional guards. (In Apep's case, it's a bigger than average blackstone gigant, one of the most powerful golems known.) Escape is possible from this place, either through intervention from the gods or the [[JuryOfTheDamned Lords of Woe]], but it's only happened four times in the eons-long history of the place. Surprisingly, the bodaks do not bother mortals or normal residents of the Abyss who only make brief visits (after one to four hours, you've overstayed your welcome, and they try to kill you) and some people do come here, though they can only leave if they drop off a prisoner ("leave behind incapacitated" counts as dropping off, thankfully for any less-than-godly entities). Either they're servants of a prisoner who are foolish enough to think escape is possible or who try to ease his suffering with sacrifices, or they're a group who try to perform a ritual to communicate with a prisoner. Many of them are incredibly ancient, and know dark secrets which they are willing to share - [[DealWithTheDevil for a price.]]

* There's quite a few in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', with the two most famous (out-of-universe, at least) being the Dark Eldar [[WretchedHive city of Commorragh]] and the Dark Angels' flying fortress monastery "The Rock". [[CrapsackWorld It should tell you something]] that both of these places are associated more with ColdBloodedTorture than actual imprisonment...
* In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'', the city of Marienburg has "Rijker's Island", an Expy of the RealLife Riker's Island in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. But much, much tougher.

** When an anomaly cannot be carried away and stored in a prison cell, usually when [[EldritchLocation it's a big, scary and weird place]], they build walls around it and estabilish a facility there.

** The Foundation also has prisoners called D-Class, normal humans that are used in experiments with the [=SCPs=], most of them die or worse because [[{{Main/RedShirt}} dying for science is part of their job]], they are also straight up sacrificed when necessary, most of the D-Class personnel are criminals that were sentenced to death anyway. Traitors to the Foundation or people from groups who use or create anomalies for their own selfish goals can also be arrested and used as D-Class.

** The SCP Foundation is also responsible for [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse storing dangerous items]] that have magical/supernatural properties but are not sentient, these items are often classified "Safe", they may be still dangerous but can be just stored in a box and are harmless if no one touches them, they avoid using those items for their personal goals, but sometimes they weaponize them or even use them to lock away other [=SCPs=], which get the special "Thaumiel" classification, research sometimes reveal these objects were in fact sentient, lifting them to "Euclid".

** The SCP Foundation is also responsible for [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse storing dangerous items]] that have magical/supernatural properties but are not sentient, these items are often classified "Safe", they may be still dangerous but can be just stored in a box and are harmless if no one touches them, they avoid using those items for their personal goals, but sometimes they weaponize them or even use them to lock away other [=SCPs=], which get the special "Thaumiel" classification.

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** Level 1 is mostly a normal floor, though the highlight of Level One is the "Crimson Hell," a forest within the prison made up entirely of bladed "saber trees" and "needle grass." Prisoners are forced into it, being cut up at every turn and every step, giving the forest its trademark red color, all the while being chased by poisonous insects and AxeCrazy prison guards. To add to the sadism the only way out is a pit located within the Crimson Hell, which leads to ''Level Two''. This was where Buggy was kept until the mass-escape, and it wasn't so bad for him, because he simply couldn't be hurt by the hazards here due to his Devil's Fruit power; for some reason, the guards never noticed that.

** Level 4, the "[[EvilIsBurningHot Hell of Scorching Flames]]", is even hotter than Level Three (in fact, it's the heat from this level that keeps the above one hot), as a gigantic "Lake of Blood" is kept boiling hot at all times, which prisoners are dropped into regularly. Other prisoners are used to keep wood on the fire at all times, where they face the risk of getting into a fight and being thrown into the "Lake".
** Level 5, the "[[EvilIsDeathlyCold Hell of Freezing Cold]]", is the [[JustForPun polar]] opposite of previous level, with below freezing temperatures and wolves that are so vicious, they actually preyed upon Level Two's beasts when they were initially introduced there, forcing their relocation. The prisoners kept here have given up on escape and rebellion completely, as they all stay locked in their freezing cells waiting to die.

** To make this even worse, criminals go through a ritual when they first arrive where they're bathed in boiling water, which disinfects them and renders them completely free of germs and other microorganisms. (This is called "baptizing" by the guys who are in charge, likely a sick idea of a joke.) Luffy is the only inmate known to escape this, as he was an intruder who had been poisoned and was not expected to survive longer than twenty-four hours. (Note that while the ritual is known to be agonizing, there are stories of incredibly tough inmates like Portgas D. Ace, Jinbe and Crocodile, who were able to withstand it without even flinching.)

** To highlight just how bad this prison is, one need only look at the two successful attempts to escape it. The only self-escapee had to ''cut off his feet'' and use his rare power of flight to escape. Luffy's break-''in'' and escape with 241 other prisoners was only possible because of the assistance and chaos of the entire populations of levels 5, 5.5 and 6, Buggy, Mr. 3, and the timely intervention of the Blackbeard Pirates, one of the strongest crews in the world.

** The Foundation also has prisoners called D-Class, normal humans that are used in experiments with the [=SCPs=], most of them die or worse because [[{{Main/RedShirt}} dying for science is part of their job]], they are also straight up sacrificed when necessary, most of the D-Class personnel are criminals that were sentenced to death anyway. Traitors to the Foundation or people who used or created anomalies for their own selfish goals can also be arrested and used as D-Class.

** The Foundation also has prisoners called D-Class, normal humans that are used in experiments with the [=SCPs=], most of them die or worse because [[{{Main/RedShirt}} dying for science is part of their job]], most of the D-Class personnel are criminals that were sentenced to death anyway.

** Although the Foundation actually has ethics and an Ethics Committee, to make sure the Foundation maintains their goal of protecting the world instead of taking over it, and to prevent unnecessary cruelty, anomalies that are [[BenevolentMonsters harmless or friendly]] and are there just for being a threat to normalcy, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength or didn't]] [[PowerIncontinence do bad stuff]] [[WalkingWasteland on purpose]], can still have a decent life in prison, have comfort, make requests and sometimes even freedom to leave their cells and roam the facilities, and there are SCPs that work for the Foundation.