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6	->''"I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun\
7	I fought the law, and the law won.\
8	I fought the law, and the law won.\
9	I needed money 'cause I had none.\
10	I fought the law, and the law won."''
11	-->-- '''The Bobby Fuller Four''', "I Fought the Law"
12
13	The jail. The nick. The cooler. The joint. The slammer. You get the gist.
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15	If a show is set in Prison, the wardens and/or guards usually contain at least one DrillSergeantNasty, and there is a prevalence of gang violence, drug abuse, and {{Prison Rape}}. Due to the need to present the setting as extremely violent, dangerous and chaotic, shows set primarily in prison, such as ''Series/{{Oz}}'', will frequently use RedShirt characters.
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17	See PrisonTropes and CrimeAndPunishmentTropes for tropes that frequently come into play in stories featuring prisons.
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19	!!Prison as the main setting:
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21	[[foldercontrol]]
22
23	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
24	* ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland''
25	* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean''
26	* ''Manga/{{Nanbaka}}''
27	* ''Manga/{{Rainbow Nisha Rokubou No Shichinin}}''
28	[[/folder]]
29
30	[[folder:Comic Books]]
31	* ''Comicbook/BitchPlanet'' is another science fiction version.
32	* ''ComicBook/HardTime''
33	* "Harry 20 on the High Rock" in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''
34	* ''ComicBook/PrisonPit''
35	[[/folder]]
36
37	[[folder:Film]]
38	* ''Film/TheBigHouse''
39	* ''Film/BirdmanOfAlcatraz''
40	* ''Film/{{Brubaker}}''
41	* ''Film/CoolHandLuke''
42	* ''Film/Destroyer1988''
43	* ''Film/EscapeFromAlcatraz''
44	* ''Film/{{Fortress 1992}}''
45	* ''Film/TheGreenMile''
46	* ''Film/Jailbait2014''
47	* ''Film/TheLastCastle''
48	* ''Film/LetsGoToPrison''
49	* ''Film/TheLongestYard''
50	* ''Film/TheMustang''
51	* ''Film/PardonUs'' -- Creator/LaurelAndHardy in a loose comic remake of ''Film/TheBigHouse''
52	* ''Film/{{Prison}}''
53	* ''Film/ReformSchoolGirls''
54	* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''
55	* ''Film/{{Skidoo}}''
56	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''
57	[[/folder]]
58
59	[[folder:Literature]]
60	* ''Literature/TimeSpike'' by Creator/EricFlint and Marilyn Kosmatka, which is loosely connected with his ''[[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo Ring of Fire]]'' series. A modern American maximum-security prison, as well as several other groups, are moved back in time to the Cretaceous Era.
61	[[/folder]]
62
63	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
64	* ''Series/{{Alcatraz}}'', with the flashback half of the show being set in the eponymous prison.
65	* ''Series/BadGirls''
66	* ''Series/{{Capadocia}}''
67	* ''Series/{{Colditz}}''
68	* ''Series/DeadBoss''
69	* ''Series/HogansHeroes''
70	* ''Series/LockedUp''
71	* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''
72	* ''Series/{{Oz}}''
73	* ''Series/{{Porridge}}'' which ran considerably against type, being a sitcom with relatively little violence. Episodes focusing instead on surviving institutional life, characters and friendship.
74	* ''Series/PrisonBreak''
75	* ''Series/PrisonerCellBlockH''
76	* ''Series/TheSlammer''
77	* ''Series/{{Tenko}}''
78	* ''Series/{{Wentworth}}''
79	* ''Series/WithinTheseWalls''
80	* ''Series/WomenInPrison''
81	[[/folder]]
82
83	[[folder:Video Games]]
84	* ''VideoGame/{{Diacrisis}}'' is set in Excillar Supermax Security Penitentiary, which houses murderes, mob bosses, and the like.
85	* ''The Chronicles of Riddick: VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay'' is based on escaping a prison.
86	* ''VideoGame/{{Sanitarium}}'': A great game based on escaping from a loony bin.
87	* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'' is a third-person shooter that takes place on a prison... that gets attacked by monsters.
88	* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' had you breaking ''into'' a high security prison, Nova Prospekt. To do this you had to storm a fortified beachfront, run past several machine gunners, scale a steep cliff face and shoot down a pair of gunships just to make it inside. According to another character, this was ''easier'' than breaking out. Once inside, the largely empty Nova Prospekt turned out to be pretty eerie.
89	** The ''Riot Act'' mod is about a prisoner breaking out of Nova Prospekt during the break-in mentioned above.
90	* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': The entire game is set in the titular insane asylum/prison. Fortunately, it's varied enough to be entertaining the whole way through.
91	* ''VideoGame/PrisonArchitect'' puts you in charge of building and maintaining your own private prison [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou for profit]]. You can make a humane prison that [[VideoGameCaringPotential takes care]] of the inmates' wellbeing and works on rehabilitating them. Or you [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential can]] make a HellHolePrison.
92	* ''VideoGame/TheEscapists'' and ''The Escapists 2'' mostly take place in prisons.
93	* ''VideoGame/TakeNoPrisoners'' takes place in a PenalColony called the Bradley Correctional Institute, where the inmates have been converted into mindless mutants. You'll need to infiltrate the facility and get out alive.
94	[[/folder]]
95
96	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
97	* ''VisualNovel/LuckyDog1'' until the main cast breaks out.
98	[[/folder]]
99
100	[[folder:Webcomics]]
101	* ''Webcomic/TheLydianOption'' is a sci-fi comic set on an asteroid prison run by a species that incarcerates criminals for every offense, no matter how minor.
102	* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' features a deadly reality show with prisoners (and a few volunteers) as the contestants, taking place on a space station that provides (among other things) the prison complex the players are being held in.
103	[[/folder]]
104
105	[[folder:Web Original]]
106	* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version three has a jailhouse/prison/military stockade as one of the locations, frequently used as shelter by the students. So far it's one of the least bloody locations on the island, with only one person having died there. V3 characters Brad Kavanagh and Eduardo Trinidad-Villa are also mentioned as having spent time in juvenile hall, Brad on (false) murder charges, and Eduardo on assault charges. Brad was released when the real killer came forward and his case was overturned, but Eduardo served his entire sentence.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:Western Animation]]
110	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}''
111	[[/folder]]
112
113	!!Prison is frequently used as a set:
114
115	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
116	* ''Manga/OnePiece'' (Impel Down arc.)
117	[[/folder]]
118
119	[[folder:Comic Books]]
120	* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:IQ Squared and Pronto]] end up here at the finish.
121	* ''ComicBook/TheOutsideCircle'': [[TheProtagonist Pete]] is first sent to Edmonton Maximum Security Prison, and then transferred to Drumheller Medium Prison so he can take part in the "In Search Of Your Inner Warrior" Program.
122	* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad''. The Squad is based in a prison when not out on missions.
123	[[/folder]]
124
125	[[folder:Literature]]
126	* Multiple books by Creator/JodiPicoult, including ''Literature/ThePact'', ''Literature/VanishingActs'', and ''Change of Heart''.
127	[[/folder]]
128
129	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
130	* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''
131	* ''Series/BreakoutKings''
132	* ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' and the derivatives
133	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' (season three)
134	* ''Series/RedDwarf'' (series eight)
135	* ''Series/TheShield'' (season four)
136	* ''Series/TheSopranos'' (season six, minor appeareances in the rest)
137	* ''Series/TheWire'' (season two, more briefly in season three and still more briefly in season 4)
138	[[/folder]]

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