Definition of Prison

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Prison

A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.

To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

To bind (together); to enchain.

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Prison Quotations

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

Prison Translations

prison in Dutch is nor, kerker, gevangenis
prison in Latin is claustrum, carcer
prison in Norwegian is fengsel

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