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* MindPrison: Imprisonment in a MentalWorld or VirtualReality.

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* MindPrison: Imprisonment in a MentalWorld or VirtualReality.a virtual reality.
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* PrisonerPerformance: Inmates put on a theatrical performance or other live entertainment in prison.
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* PrisonersLastMeal: The last meal a prisoner on DeathRow eats before their execution.
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* PrisonLevel: A Video Game level that takes place in a prison, whether it is to escape or break someone out.

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** TradingBarsForStripes: A convicted criminal decides to serve in the military to avoid a prison sentence, or to earn their freedom.



* ChainGang: Multiple prisoners literally chained together while laboring.



** PossessiveParadise: A luxurious place that actively prevents you from leaving.



* InPrisonWithTheRogues: The hero is locked up in the same prison alongside vengeful criminals they previously put behind bars.



** SentencedToDownUnder: When colonial-era {{UsefulNotes/Australia}} was used as a penal colony by the UsefulNotes/BritishEmpire.



* PossessiveParadise: A luxurious place that actively prevents you from leaving.



** WorkingOnTheChainGang: Convict laborers are chained together while doing work.



** InPrisonWithTheRogues: The hero is locked up in the same prison alongside vengeful criminals they previously put behind bars.


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* SentencedToDownUnder: When colonial-era {{UsefulNotes/Australia}} was used as a penal colony by the UsefulNotes/BritishEmpire.


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* TradingBarsForStripes: A convicted criminal decides to serve in the military to avoid a prison sentence, or to earn their freedom.


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* WorkingOnTheChainGang: Convict laborers are chained together while doing work.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[CardboardPrison A rare glimpse of Gotham's prisoners actually in their cells.]]]]




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[[caption-width-right:350:Their methods vary, but their goal is the same: incarceration.\\
(Clockwise from top left: [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]], [[Film/MinorityReport Halo Prison]], [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Azkaban Prison]], [[Film/{{Blindness}} Asylum Prison)]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Their methods vary, but their goal is the same: incarceration.\\
(Clockwise from top left: [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]], [[Film/MinorityReport Halo Prison]], [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Azkaban Prison]], [[Film/{{Blindness}} Asylum Prison)]]]]
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* RodentCellmates: A prisoner, lacking better options, befriends rats.

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The Big House. The Slammer. The Pen. The Clink. The Hoosegow. The Pokey. The Calaboose. Call it what you will, stories set in prisons have their own set of tropes attached to them.

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The Big House. The Slammer. The Pen. The Clink. The Hoosegow. The Pokey. The Calaboose. Call it what you will, stories set in jails and prisons have their own set of tropes attached to them.
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Also see EscapeTropes, ARestrainedIndex, ThisIndexIsStuck, and SealedIndexInACan.
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* LockedUpTropes
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* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: Someone has been ThrownDownAWell and left to die there, usually through starvation.
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* ArtisticLicensePrison: Prison doesn't work that way in real life.

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Also see EscapeTropes, ARestrainedIndex, and SealedIndexInACan.

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* PrisonRiot: Mass violence in a prison, usually involving a [[MobWar fight between rival gangs]], or the inmates rebelling against the guards.

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* PrisonRiot: Mass violence in a prison, usually involving a [[MobWar [[GangWar fight between rival gangs]], or the inmates rebelling against the guards.
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* PrisonRiot: Mass violence in a prison, usually involving a fight between rival gangs, or the inmates rebelling against the guards.

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* PrisonRiot: Mass violence in a prison, usually involving a [[MobWar fight between rival gangs, gangs]], or the inmates rebelling against the guards.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: A small area cut off from the rest of the world.
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* TheWallAroundTheWorld: The whole world is the prison, or rather, the prison is the whole world, as least as far as the prisoner(s) know.
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* WidelySpacedJailBars: An incarcerated person is kept in a cell with the bars wide enough that they could easily escape by slipping through the bars if they so choose.
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* PanopticonOfSurveillance: A means of watching all prisoners at once.
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* GirlInTheTower: A female (usually a princess) is imprisoned in a tall tower.

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* GirlInTheTower: A female character (usually a princess) is imprisoned in a tall tower.
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* DesiresPrisonLife: When a character finds imprisonment appealing in and of itself.
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* ExtranormalPrison: A prison that is specially designed to contain people or beings who have [[MagicAndPowers superhuman]] [[StockSuperpowers abilities]].

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* ExtranormalPrison: A prison that is specially designed to contain people or beings who have [[MagicAndPowers superhuman]] [[StockSuperpowers superhuman abilities]].
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* ChainGang: Multiple prisoners literally chained together while laboring.
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* NoPrisonSegregation: Convicts are housed together regardless of their differences.
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* NoPrisonSegregation: Prisons contain male, female and juvenile prisoners in fiction and to a lesser extent real life.
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* NoPrisonSegregation: Prisons in fiction contain male, female and juvenile prisoners.

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* NoPrisonSegregation: Prisons in fiction contain male, female and juvenile prisoners.prisoners in fiction and to a lesser extent real life.
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* NoPrisonSegregation: Prisons in fiction contain male, female and juvenile prisoners.
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* ImprovisedImprisonment: A character is held prisoner by amateurs, in a place not intended to hold prisoners.

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