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Prison on Fire (监狱风云)
Prison on Fire (監獄風雲, Gaam yuk fung wan) is a 1987 Hong Kong prison action drama directed by Ringo Lam, written by Nam Yin, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Roy Cheung; released 13 November 1987 by Cinema City, it won Lam the Asia-Pacific Best Director award and spawned a 1991 sequel.
Prison on Fire II (监狱风云II逃犯)
Prison on Fire II (监狱风云II逃犯, Gam yuk fung wan II: To fan) is a 1991 Hong Kong prison drama directed by Ringo Lam, starring Chow Yun-fat as inmate Chung Tin-ching, who escapes jail to see his orphaned son.
Prison Playbook (슬기로운 감빵생활)
Prison Playbook (슬기로운 감빵생활, Wise Prison Life) is a 2017 tvN Korean drama directed by Shin Won-ho, starring Park Hae-soo as a star pitcher imprisoned before his major league debut; 16 episodes, streamed on Netflix and HBO Max.
Prison Policy Initiative
Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), a non-profit, non-partisan US research and advocacy group founded in 2001 by Peter Wagner in Western Massachusetts, known for Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie, the prison gerrymandering campaign, and FCC prison phone rate victories.
Prison rape
Prison rape is sexual violence against incarcerated people by inmates or staff. Key facts: U.S. PREA of 2003, NIS-4 2023-24 rate 4.1%, pooled meta-analytic prevalence 12.4%, 5% grant penalty.
Prison rape in the United States
Prison rape in the United States covers sexual victimization of incarcerated people by inmates or staff. PREA (2003) mandates BJS statistics; surveys report 2.0-4.5% prevalence, allegations rising from 7,575 (2012) to 18,884 (2018).
Prison reform
Prison reform: efforts to change how prisons are built, run, and used, from John Howard's 1774 reforms and the 1779 Penitentiary Act to modern rehabilitation, solitary confinement limits, and alternatives to incarceration.
Prison School (監獄学園)
Prison School (監獄学園, Kangoku Gakuen) is a Japanese school comedy manga by Akira Hiramoto, serialized from 2011 to 2017, about five boys imprisoned after peeping into the girls' bath.
Prison sexuality
Prison sexuality covers sexual relationships, identities, coercion, and regulation among incarcerated people, including Sykes's deprivation framework, gay-for-the-stay behavior, PREA, conjugal visits, and LGBTQ+ incarceration disparities.
Prison ship
Prison ships, or prison hulks, are decommissioned vessels moored as floating prisons. Britain's convict hulks began with the 1776 Act and Duncan Campbell's Justitia, held prisoners awaiting transportation, and lasted about 80 years in England.
Prison slang
Prison slang is the informal vocabulary of incarcerated people, spanning slang, jargon, argot, and cant. It varies by institution and region, marks in-group status, and has been documented since Vaux's 1819 flash-language dictionary.
Prison uniform
Prison uniform: standardized clothing issued to incarcerated people for identification, escape prevention, and control. Includes Australian convict 'magpie' uniforms, 1820s New York stripes, Nazi camp striped uniforms, and Mandela Rules standards.
Prison warden
Prison warden: the chief executive officer of a prison, also called superintendent, institutional head, or prison manager. Holds final authority over custody, security, staff, and budget; role shifted from rehabilitation overseer to complex manager since 1975.
Prison–industrial complex
Prison-industrial complex (PIC): term for the network of government, private corporations, and institutions with interests in incarceration, in use since the 1970s. Includes private prisons holding about 8% of US prisoners, prison labor, and abolitionist critiques.
Prisoner
Prisoner: a person deprived of liberty and held in custody, also called inmate, detainee, or incarcerated person. Covers legal definitions, prisoners' rights, prison culture research, and prison slang.
Prisoner (British TV series)
The Prisoner (1967–1968), British ITV/ITC allegorical spy-science fiction series of 17 episodes created by and starring Patrick McGoohan as Number Six, abducted after resigning to The Village, filmed at Portmeirion, Wales; distinct from the Australian soap Prisoner and the Sky thriller.
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner (overseas title Prisoner: Cell Block H) is an Australian soap opera set in the fictional Wentworth women's prison, created by Reg Watson, airing 692 episodes on Network Ten 1979–1986, rebooted as Wentworth in 2013.
Prisoner 951
Prisoner 951 is a four-part BBC factual drama (premiered 23 November 2025) about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's six-year imprisonment in Iran and husband Richard Ratcliffe's campaign, starring Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes; distinct from the Australian soap Prisoner and The Prisoner.
Prisoner exchange of 966
The prisoner exchange of 966 (فداء الأسرى) was a redemption of Arab captives from Byzantine hands, carried out in AH 355 (966 CE) and releasing thousands of Arab prisoners.
Prisoner in the Vatican
Prisoner in the Vatican: the self-declared status of the popes from Pius IX to Pius XI after Italy captured Rome on 20 September 1870, refusing to recognize Italian authority or leave the Vatican until the Lateran Treaty of 11 February 1929 created Vatican City.
Prisoner of war
Prisoner of war (POW): a captured combatant in an international armed conflict protected by the 1949 Third Geneva Convention. Covers who qualifies, humane-treatment guarantees, ICRC visiting and tracing roles, release and repatriation rules, and unlawful combatant debates.
Prisoner of War (2025 film)
Prisoner of War (2025) is a WWII martial arts action thriller directed by Louis Mandylor, starring Scott Adkins as captured British officer James Wright forced to fight in a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines; released September 19, 2025 by Well Go USA.
Prisoner security categories in the United Kingdom
Prisoner security categories in the UK (A, B, C, D for adult men in England and Wales) classify prisoners by escape risk, harm if they escaped, and threat to prison control, after the 1966 Mountbatten Report following the George Blake escape.
Prisoner-of-war camp
Prisoner-of-war camp: a facility for holding enemy armed forces members captured in international armed conflict, governed by the Third Geneva Convention (1949). About 8 million POWs in WWI and 35 million in WWII; ICRC-monitored, preventive detention ending in repatriation.
Prisoner's dilemma
The prisoner's dilemma is a two-person game where each player is better off defecting, though both would gain by cooperating; Flood and Dresher devised it at RAND around 1950.
Prisoners (2013 film)
Prisoners is a 2013 American thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal as a father and detective clashing over a child abduction.
Prisoners from the Front
Prisoners from the Front is an 1866 oil painting by Winslow Homer depicting Union general Francis Channing Barlow confronting three captured Confederate soldiers; it established his reputation.
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Prisoners of the Ghostland is a 2021 post-apocalyptic samurai-Western action film, Sion Sono's English-language debut, starring Nicolas Cage as Hero, a bank robber in an explosive booby-trapped suit sent to rescue Sofia Boutella's Bernice from the Ghostland wasteland.
Prisoners of War (חטופים) (TV series)
Prisoners of War (חטופים, Hatufim) is an Israeli Channel 2 drama by Gideon Raff, 24 episodes in two seasons (2010, 2012), about three soldiers held 17 years in Lebanon; it was Israel's highest-rated drama and the format basis for Showtime's Homeland.
Prisoners of war in World War II
Prisoners of war in World War II: millions of combatants captured by Germany, Japan, and the Allies under the 1929 Geneva Convention, with sharply divergent outcomes, from relatively benign Western-Allied captivity to more than 3 million Soviet POW deaths.