History Main / ImplicitPrison

* 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 starts comparing Harry to his father as if he should behave like his dad after being stuck in the house for months.

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* The "Sanctuary Communities" of ''FanFic/TheRoadToCydonia'', if the evil government agency decides you need "sanctuary" you will be placed in one and never allowed to leave...ever.
* In the epilogue of ''FanFic/TheVow'', [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is forced to live secretly in the Shan Palace, the home of [[spoiler:his wife]] Lady Lianne. This is her way of using her noble's right to condemn him on her lands for his crimes as she sees fit, and while a secret life inside the borders of her palace is a form of imprisonment, it's still more merciful than whatever any other authority of China would inflict on him. While it takes time for [[spoiler:Shen]] to accept this unappealing course of life, he has at the very least [[spoiler:his wife and son]].

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* Marnie is under a year's house arrest with an electronic tracking bracelet limiting her to the eponymous hundred feet in ''Film/OneHundredFeet'' after serving two years in an actual prison.

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* Two characters connected to the kidnapping of Amily meet this fate at the end of ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar 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 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.

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* 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.

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* In MarvelComics "Decimation" event, the Xavier Institute was called a "Haven" for remaining mutants, but was really an internment camp for them.

* [[LockedAwayInAMonastery Religious houses are occasionally used this way]] in the ''{{Deryni}}'' works:

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* In the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' series, there is an asylum for insane nobles. It is also used to get rid of nobles who are in someone else's way, but can't be killed without causing political trouble.

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->"You've chosen a magnificent prison, but it is a prison nonetheless; take one step outside, and you're mine."

* The Village from ''ThePrisoner''.

* 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.

* Two characters connected to the kidnapping of Amily meet this fate at the end of ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar 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.

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

* 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.

Note that this portrayal often revolves around the idea that "confined against will" is equivalent to prison, even if the living conditions aren't as bad as they would be at a prison. The old saying that "[[GildedCage a gilded cage is still a cage]]" acknowledges the idea of a prison being a prison, no matter how comfortable, and there is some overlap of the GildedCage with this trope.

* The cathedral from 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.

* ''DoctorWho'': The waiting areas in "[[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".

-->- Judge Claude Frollo from ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame.''

Basically, a setting is treated as equivalent to prison in many ways, even if it does not explicitly call itself a prison. It is often a place of "refuge" that for all intents and purposes is a prison. Often, this means there is some threat just outside the refuge itself.

* In Marvel Comics "Decimation" event, the Xavier Institute was called a "Haven" for remaining mutants, but was really an internment camp for them.

* [[LockedAwayInAMonastery Religious houses are occasionally used this way]] in the {{Deryni}} works:

* The Village from ThePrisoner.
* The waiting areas in ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/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".

* During the Wars of the Roses, when the Yorkist King Edward IV was defeated, 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.

* The "Sanctuary Communities" of ''The Road To Cydonia'', if the evil government agency decides you need sanctuary you will be placed in one and never allowed to leave...ever.

* Religious houses are occasionally used this way in the {{Deryni}} works:

** As part of ''The King's Justice'', Kelson [[RoyalDecree decrees]] that Caitrin Quinnell, the Mearan Pretender, will [[LockedAwayInAMonastery live out her life in a convent]].

** As part of ''The King's Justice'', Kelson [[RoyalDecree decrees]] that Caitrin Quinnell, the Mearan Pretender, will live out her life in a convent.