Prison
A prison, also known as a prison house, jail, or penitentiary, was one of several forms of punishment after committing a crime in which an individual was incarcerated and deprived of various personal freedoms. A prison used for short periods of confinement was known as a jail. Prisons aboard starships and starbases were known as brigs or holding cells, which were typically used as short-term prisons, or for the containment of unprocessed fugitives. 

Klingon philosophy indicated that, if taken prisoner, a Klingon should kill himself rather than be held prisoner, unless there were enemies to fight or hope of escape. ()

Tuvok once opined that if all species were as enlightened as Vulcans, there would be no need for prisons. ()

Prison systems 
During a bizarre social experiment in 2268, during which Federation historian John Gill turned the Ekosian society into a replica of Nazi Germany, a security prison was established in the Ekosian capitol known as the Chancellery Detention Center. Here, members of the Zeon resistance movement were taken and tortured for information. ()

At one point prior to 2369, Quark was able to get Durg released from a Cardassian prison. ()

The Argrathi Authority used prisons that were, in reality, interactive programs that created an artificial reality filled with memories of things that never actually happened, modeled to fit each offender's personality. The Argrathi used this form of punishment as they found it more efficient and more effective than maintaining an extensive prison system. ()

The Dominion converted an ultritium mine, located on an asteroid, into a prison that was later referred to as Internment Camp 371. This conversion included the addition of a dome and the consolidation of the mining barracks, where each formerly had its own life support system embedded in the walls. ()

The Mokra Order had a detention facility in the north-east-corner of a city on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. The prison was subterranean and equipped with a force field which could not be penetrated by sensors. Several soldiers guarded the prisoners who were held in small cells equipped with force field which could shock anyone who tried to escape. ()

As part of a bluff to the con artist Dala, Tuvok described the prisons of the Telsians as barely habitable, with inmates often dying of malnutrition, and torture and disease both being commonplace. ()

Types of prisons 
 Brig
 Cryostatic prison
 Internment camp
 Labor camp
 Penal colony
 Prison ship
 Reorientation center
 Stockade

Other prisons 
 Akritirian maximum security detention facility
 Chancellery Detention Center
 Kran-Tobol prison
 Tarahong detention center

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