Prison
Pris´on
PRISON. A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the
sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are
judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the
sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison. 6 John. R. 22.
2. An illegal prison is one not authorized by law, but established by
private authority; when the confinement is illegal, every place where the
party is arrested is a prison; as, the street, if he be detained in passing
along. 4 Com. Dig. 619; 2 Hawk. P. C. c. 18, s. 4; 1 Buss. Cr. 378; 2 Inst.
589.
To dream that you are in prison,
signifies that you are being censored and not allowed to express yourself.
Misfortune will haunt you.
To dream that someone else is in prison,
signifies an aspect of yourself that you are unable to express freely.
To dream that you or someone is released from prison,
denotes that you need to make major changes to your waking life.
Eventually,
you will overcome your misfortune. *
Please also see Jail.
POW camp,
bastille,
big house,
black hole,
borstal,
borstal institution,
bridewell,
calaboose,
can,
cell,
chokey,
clink,
concentration camp,
condemned cell,
confine,
confinement,
constrain,
cooler,
death cell,
death house,
death row,
detention,
detention camp,
dungeon,
federal prison,
forced-labor camp,
gaol,
glasshouse,
guardhouse,
hoosegow,
house of correction,
house of detention,
immure,
incarcerate,
industrial school,
intern,
internment camp,
jailhouse,
jug,
keep,
labor camp,
lockup,
maximum-security prison,
minimum-security prison,
oubliette,
pen,
penal colony,
penal institution,
penal settlement,
penitentiary,
pokey,
poky,
prison camp,
prisonhouse,
quod,
reform school,
reformatory,
slammer,
sponging house,
state prison,
stir,
the hole,
tollbooth,
training school
prison - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
prison - a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement