PRISON

[noun] - a building where criminals are forced to live as a punishmentConditions in the prison are said to be appalling. [C]It was a maximum-security prison (= intended to be especially difficult to escape from). [C]It was somehow obvious that he had spent time in prison. [U]She went to/was sent to prison for six months. [U]He was given a long prison sentence for robbing a bank.Prison warders have threatened to go on strike.Prison also refers to the time that someone spends inside a prison as a punishment.Prison hadn't changed him at all.A prison is also a situation or relationship from which it is difficult to escape.She felt that her marriage had become a prison.A prison camp is a place where people, usually prisoners of war or political prisoners, are forced to stay.He was captured by enemy forces and sent to a prison camp for the rest of the war.