Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| barracoon | an enclosure or barrack formerly used for temporary confinement of slaves or convicts. |
| borstal borstall | an establishment for the detention of young adult delinquents. |
| bridewell | a house of correction, a jail. |
| bullpen | a pen for a bull; a similar enclosure for prisoners. |
| calaboose | a prison, jail. [Sp. calabozo, dungeon]. |
| carceral | of or relating to prisons. |
| cellblock | a group of prison cells. |
| chokey choky | (coll.) a prison. CHOKY is also an adjective: tending to choke or suffocate > CHOKIER, CHOKIEST. |
| clink | (coll.) prison. |
| cooler | (coll.) a prison. |
| coprisoner | a fellow-prisoner. |
| disprison | to let loose from prison, to set at liberty. |
| dungeon | an undergroud prison; (verb) to confine in a dungeon. |
| dungeoner | a gaoler. |
| durance | imprisonment. |
| endungeon | to shut up in a dungeon. |
| engaol | to put in gaol. |
| gaol | a prison; (verb) to put in gaol. |
| gaolbreak | an escape from gaol; (verb) to escape from gaol > GAOLBREAKING, GAOLBROKE, GAOLBROKEN. |
| gaolless | without a gaol. |
| glasshouse | a military detention barracks. |
| guardhouse | a building for the accommodation of a military guard, and where prisoners are confined. |
| guardroom | a room having the same function as a guardhouse. |
| gulag | the system of political prisons and forced labour camps in the USSR. |
| hoosegow hoosgow | (US sl.) a prison, jail. [Sp. juzgado, judgment]. |
| imprison | to confine in a prison. |
| imprisonment | the act of imprisoning. |
| incarcerate | to put in prison. |
| intern | to confine esp. during a war. |
| jail | a prison; (verb) to put in jail. |
| jailable | as in a jailable offence. |
| jailbreak | an escape from jail; (verb) to escape from jail > JAILBREAKING, JAILBROKE, JAILBROKEN. |
| jailbreaker | one who escapes from jail.. |
| jailhouse | a prison. |
| jailless | without a jail. |
| juvie | a juvenile detention centre. |
| katorga | penal servitude, hard labour, esp. in the labour camps of Stalin. |
| laogai | in China, a forced labour camp > LAOGAIS. [LAOdong GAIzao, labor + reform]. |
| lockdown | confinement of prisoners to their cells all day. |
| lockup | a cell for locking up prisoners. |
| massymore | a subterranean prison. |
| oflag | a German prison camp for officers. |
| oubliette | a dungeon with an opening only at the top. |
| panopticon | a prison in which all prisoners can be watched from one point. |
| penitentiary | in N. American, a prison. |
| pokey poky | (coll.) jail. POKY is also an adjective: cramped: POKIER, POKIEST; POKILY. |
| postprison | after release from prison. |
| prison | a place of confinement; (verb) to imprison. |
| prisoner | one that is imprisoned. |
| prisonment | (Shakesp.) imprisonment. |
| prisonous | (Dickens) of or like a prison. |
| quad quod | (coll.) prison; (verb) to imprison. |
| reformatory | a penal institution to which especially young or first offenders are committed for training and reformation. |
| roundhouse | a constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. |
| slammer | (coll.) prison. |
| stalag | a German camp for prisoners of war. |
| stir | (coll.) prison. |
| supermax | denoting the highest level of jail security. |
| sweatbox | a narrow box or cell in which a prisoner is placed for punishment. |
| tolbooth tollbooth | in Scotland, a town hall, a prison. |
| tronk | (S. Afr.) jail. |
| unprison | to take or deliver from prison. |