History Main / ImplicitPrison

* ''FanFic/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiDuo'': In order to keep them safe from Dr. Hishki, Nikora gathers all seven Mermaid Princesses and declares that they're forbidden to leave the Pearl Piari for any reason until the threat has passed. It doesn't take long for the group to sneak out, and after Nikora has a talk with Maki over it and is nearly captured by Hishki's minions herself, she relents as long as they be careful and watch their backs.

* Sunnyside Daycare from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3,'' in that toys donated there are locked up, required to stay, and security is tight to deter inmates from escaping.

* Kale, in ''Film/{{Disturbia}}'', is under house-arrest with the corresponding ankle bracelet when finds that the neighbor may have more sinister hobbies.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' Sirius is forced to stay in the house he ran away from as a teenager since the Ministry of Magic is hunting for him and has already shown that they will sentence him to a [[FateWorseThanDeath Dementor's Kiss]] without trial the moment they get their hands on him. While the family that abused him is all dead and gone their portraits and Kreacher still spout their xenophobic rhetoric constantly and drive him a bit mad; noticeably he only seems to start mixing up Harry with his father after being stuck in the house for months.
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'':
** Two characters connected to the kidnapping of Amily meet this fate at the end of ''Changes''. [[spoiler:Tobias Marchand]] is "assigned" to a chronicler's post at a border Guard station, the posting is specifically referred to as lifetime house arrest. A Healer who worked for the kidnappers is sent to be the resident Healer at a prison for the rest of his life.
** In ''Brightly Burning'', an insane woman guilty of attempted murder is sentenced to be bricked up in a hermit's cell for the rest of her life. (Misses LockedAwayInAMonastery status because she doesn't take vows. However, her family is still required to make the usual "gift" to the religious order for her care.)
* In the first Time of Troubles flashback in the ''Literature/{{Deverry}}'' novels, the surviving women of the Wolf clan seek sanctuary in a temple. The head of the Boar clan, which had slain all the men and most of the soldiers of the Wolf, declined to break sanctuary, but left a squad of men with enough supplies to last them for a month or more waiting on the only road leading away from the temple to capture the women if they try to leave. This lasts until some survivors of the Wolf war band attack and kill the besieging squad.

* The Girls' Working School in ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' is described as ''worse'' than many prisons -- the only reason it's not one is because, even in Nugganite Borogravia, the actions that get girls sent there aren't actually ''crimes''.
-->But if you rebelled, or were merely dangerously honest, or had the wrong kind of illness, or were not wanted, or were a girl who liked boys more than the old women thought you should and, worse, were not good at counting... then the School was your destination.

* The waiting areas in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]" are specifically ''not'' prisons ... but step over the line that marks the edge of the area, and "you're a dead man".

* Dragon historian Jin Jae-Hoon is imprisoned in one of these in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. More specifically, his prison is Seoul -- as in ''an entire city.'' Since the Dragon need him around to serve as their chronicler, he can spend his time anywhere within the city limits but attempting to leave will only result in the [[WarriorMonk Silent Monks]] being sent out to retrieve him; plus, the Dragon are [[TheChessmaster masters of predicting and manipulating events]], so there's no point in running anyway. By now, Jae-Hoon's adjusted to his incarceration, and spends his days lounging in the foyer of the Kumiho Hotel, listening to the music and reviewing his notes until someone asks him a question.

* Beacon Academy itself becomes this for Roman Torchwick and [[spoiler:Headmaster]] Jaune Arc in ''FanFic/ProfessorArc'', given there's still a lot of Atlesian military forces outside. Both are still technically wanted men since they escaped military custody, though popular opinion is beginning to push for the charges to be thrown out, since they were pivotal in repulsing Cinder's vast attack on Vale.
* ''FanFic/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiDuo'': In order to keep them safe from Dr. Hishki, Nikora gathers all seven Mermaid Princesses and declares that they're forbidden to leave the Pearl Piari for any reason until the threat has passed. It doesn't take long for the group to sneak out, and after Nikora has a talk with Maki over it and is nearly captured by Hishki's minions herself, she relents as long as they be careful and watch their backs.
* ''Fanfic/TheRedemptionOfHarleyQuinn'': At the end, Harley is allowed to be trained to become a PTSD psychiatrist, and Poison Ivy is allowed to be her domestic partner, but their criminal records still stand. From now on, every single aspect of their lives will be monitored by law enforcement, and will never have any real freedom or privacy (except in bed). Furthermore, Harley will never be allowed to contact her twin daughters, whose adoptive parents can seal up her status as their birth mother. Harley doesn't mind any of this as long as she gets to help people, and Ivy doesn't mind either just as long as Harley's happy.

-->-- '''Judge Claude Frollo''', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', to Esmeralda regarding her decision to seek sanctuary at the Notre Dame Cathedral.

* The waiting areas in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]'' are specifically ''not'' prisons ... but step over the line that marks the edge of the area, and "you're a dead man".

* [[PlayerCharacter Sam's]] situation in ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' can be compared to this. When he's unconcious, the staff of [=BRIDGES=] puts a pair of cufflinks (a small computer that locks around the wrist like a pair of cuffs) on him. They constantly monitor his location and vitals, even when he showers or sleeps, and it seems like they are constantly recording audio. He can't take them off himself and requires a permission from a higher ranking member of BRIDGES (like Deadman or Mama). The cuffs seem very sturdy and nigh unbreakable, and can withstand the temperature and humidity of a hot spring. They serve multiple purposes, like a map or a hacking device, but it still seems like they were put on him first and foremost to make sure he won't escape before he completes his mission. Sam lampshades his situation a couple of times, asking the BRIDGES staff if he's a prisoner (to what they answer avoidantly) and likens the cufflinks to actual handcuffs.
* Dragon historian Jin Jae-Hoon is imprisoned in one of these in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. More specifically, his prison is Seoul - as in ''an entire city.'' Since the Dragon need him around to serve as their chronicler, he can spend his time anywhere within the city limits, but attempting to leave will only result in the [[WarriorMonk Silent Monks]] being sent out to retrieve him; plus, the Dragon are [[TheChessmaster masters of predicting and manipulating events]], so there's no point in running anyway. By now, Jae-Hoon's adjusted to his incarceration, and spends his days lounging in the foyer of the Kumiho Hotel, listening to the music and reviewing his notes until someone asks him a question.

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-->-- '''Judge Claude Frollo''', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', to Esmeralda regarding her decision to seek sanctuary at the Notre Dame Cathedral.

* The cathedral from Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' and most adaptations, including [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Disney's,]] in that Esmeralda goes there to avoid Frollo, and in order to avoid arrest has to stay in that building, until Quasimodo decides to help her get past the guards.

-->-- '''Judge Claude Frollo''', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''

* ''Fanfic/TheRedemptionOfHarleyQuinn'': At the end, Harley is allowed to be trained to become a PTSD psychiatrist, and Ivy is allowed to be her domestic partner, but their criminal records still stand. From now on, every single aspect of their lives will be monitored by law enforcement, and will never have any real freedom or privacy (except in bed). Furthermore, Harley will never be allowed to contact her twin daughters, whose adoptive parents can seal up her status as their birth mother. Harley doesn't mind any of this as long as she gets to help people, and Ivy doesn't mind either just as long as Harley's happy.

Supertrope to LockedAwayInAMonastery. Compare DeadlyEnvironmentPrison, where the danger is the surrounding environment itself rather than the authorities and the prison nature of the location is usually more explicit. See also GildedCage. Also compare {{Hikikomori}}, where the confinement is self-imposed.

-->-- '''Judge Claude Frollo''', ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''

* The cathedral from Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' and most adaptations, including [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Disney's,]] in that Esmeralda goes there to avoid Frollo, and in order to avoid arrest has to stay in that building, until Quasimodo decides to help her get past the guards.

* When the Yorkist King Edward IV was defeated, during the Wars of the Roses, his Queen Elizabeth Woodville fled into sanctuary with her daughters at Westminster Abbey. Supporters of the Lancastrian King Henry VI held the capital around the abbey, as well as the machinery of government. Her son (who would've been Edward V) was born there, and King Edward IV wasn't presented with his heir until he won back his throne months later.
** This only worked for women. Edmund Beaufort, the Duke of Somerset, tried hiding in an abbey. [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim The Yorkists stormed it, dragged him out, and beheaded him.]]

Supertrope to LockedAwayInAMonastery. Compare DeadlyEnvironmentPrison, where the danger is the surrounding environment itself rather than the authorities and the prison nature of the location is usually more explicit. See also GildedCage.

Supertrope to LockedAwayInAMonastery. Compare DeadlyEnvironmentPrison, where the danger is the surrounding environment itself rather than the auhtorities and the prison nature of the location is usually more explicit. See also GildedCage.

* Julian Assange of Wikileaks, threatened with extradition from the UK to Sweden to face rape charges, sought diplomatic asylum in London's Ecuadorian embassy in 2012, claiming his arrest warrant was merely an excuse to have him extradited to the USA to face politically-motivated espionage charges (and thus potentially the death penalty). As of 2018, he's still there, and numerous stories have leaked of the long seclusion having a negative effect on his health, and on the sanity of both Assange and the embassy staff. He and his supporters have outright described his (technically voluntary) confinement as "imprisonment".

* Tedd, in ''Film/Delirium2018'',, is similarly confined to his deceased father's house for a month after his release, forbidden to leave the property, obliged to entertain his parole officer at any time of day, and subject to a daily check-in where he must get to the ringing telephone within 10 rings to state his name and have his picture taken.

* Julian Assange of Wikileaks, threatened with extradition from the UK to Sweden to face rape charges, sought diplomatic asylum in London's Ecuadorian embassy in 2012, claiming his arrest warrant was merely an excuse to have him extradited to the USA to face politically-motivated espionage charges. As of 2018, he's still there, and numerous stories have leaked of the long seclusion having a negative effect on his health, and on the sanity of both Assange and the embassy staff. He and his supporters have outright described his (technically voluntary) confinement as "imprisonment".

* The Village from ''Series/ThePrisoner''.

Supertrope to LockedAwayInAMonastery. Compare DeadlyEnvironmentPrison, where the danger is the surrounding environment itself rather than the auhtorities and the prison nature of the location is usually more explicit.

Supertrope to LockedAwayInAMonastery. DeadlyEnvironmentPrison is this trope for places actually intended to be prisons.

Supertrope to LockedAwayInAMonastery.

In modern usage, this trope can be explicitly judicial or more a matter of political control. House arrest (a common punishment for juveniles and a sentence pronounced by actual courts of law) and not being allowed to leave the city (because there is a pending court procedure involving you) are examples of the former. Whenever the government of a country doesn't allow its citizens to travel abroad, or at least significantly limits their possibility to do so (a notable example was EastGermany) would fall under the latter category. Of course, some of the judicial uses of this are for political "offences".