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Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house..

Oubliette :: Oubliette (n.) A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall..

Grating :: Grating (n.) A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent..

Incarcerate :: Incarcerate (a.) Imprisoned.

Dietary :: Dietary (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc..

Captive :: Captive (n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another..

Marshalsea :: Marshalsea (n.) The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household..

Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power..

Coroner :: Coroner (n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred..

Felony :: Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment..

Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..

Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.

Emprison :: Emprison (v. t.) See Imprison.

Justification :: "Justification (n.) The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification..

Panopticon :: Panopticon (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen..

Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast..

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

Calaboose :: Calaboose (n.) A prison; a jail.

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..

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