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Noun: prison house
  1. A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
    - prison
     
  2. A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
    - prison

Derived forms: prison houses

Type of: correctional institution, situation, state of affairs

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