List of prisons
This article provides a list of prisons by country.
A
Australian Capital Territory
- Alexander Maconochie Centre
- Periodic Detention Centre
New South Wales
- Bathurst Correctional Centre
- Brewarrina Centre
- Broken Hill Correctional Centre
- Cessnock Correctional Centre
- Cooma Correctional Centre
- Defence Force Correctional Establishment
- Dillwynia Women's Correctional Centre
- Emu Plains Correctional Centre
- Glen Innes Correctional Centre
- Goulburn Correctional Centre
- Ivanhoe Correctional Centre
- John Morony Correctional Complex
- Junee Correctional Centre
- Kirkconnell Correctional Centre
- Lithgow Correctional Centre
- Long Bay Correctional Centre
- Mannus Correctional Centre
- Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre
- Mid North Coast Correctional Centre
- Mulawa Correctional Centre
- Oberon Correctional Centre
- Parklea Correctional Centre
- Silverwater Correctional Centre
- St Heliers Correctional Centre
- Tamworth Correctional Centre
- Wellington Correctional Centre
Northern Territory
- Alice Springs Correctional Centre
- Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre
- Berrimah Prison
- Darwin Correctional Centre
- Don Dale Youth Detention Centre
- Wildman River Wilderness Work Camp
Queensland
- Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre
- Brisbane Correctional Centre
- Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre
- Capricornia Correctional Centre
- Lotus Glen Correctional Centre
- Maryborough Correctional Centre
- Numinbah Correctional Centre
- Palen Creek Correctional Centre
- Southern Queensland Correctional Centre
- Toowoomba Prison
- Townsville Correctional Centre
- Wolston Correctional Centre
- Woodford Correctional Centre
South Australia
- Adelaide Pre-Release Centre
- Adelaide Remand Centre
- Adelaide Women's Prison
- Cadell Training Centre
- Mobilong Prison
- Mount Gambier Prison
- Port Augusta Prison
- Port Lincoln Prison
- Yatala Labour Prison
Tasmania
- Ashley Youth Detention Centre
- Hobart Remand Centre
- Launceston Remand Centre
- Mary Hutchinson Women's Prison
- Risdon Prison Complex
Victoria
- Acheron Boys Home
- Beechworth Correctional Centre
- Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
- Fulham Correctional Centre
- HM Prison Barwon
- HM Prison Dhurringile
- HM Prison Langi Kal Kal
- HM Prison Loddon
- HM Prison Tarrengower
- Hopkins Correctional Centre
- Marngoneet Correctional Centre
- Melbourne Youth Justice Centre
- Metropolitan Remand Centre
- Port Phillip Prison
- Turana Youth Training Centre
- Ravenhall Prison
Western Australia
- Acacia Prison
- Albany Regional Prison
- Bandyup Women's Prison
- Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre
- Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women
- Broome Regional Prison
- Bunbury Regional Prison
- Casuarina Prison
- Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison
- Greenough Regional Prison
- Hakea Prison
- Karnet Prison Farm
- Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility
- Pardelup Prison Farm
- Roebourne Regional Prison
- Wandoo Reintegration Facility
- West Kimberley Regional Prison
- Wooroloo Prison Farm
B
- Carandiru Penitentiary - In 1992, the prison was the site of the Carandiru massacre.
- Presidente Bernardes Provisional Readaptation Center - inspired by the Supermax standards, although prisoners can only stay there for a maximum of 2 years.
- Catanduvas Federal Penitentiary - also based on the Supermax standards. It is the first federal prison in Brazil, designed to receive prisoners deemed too dangerous to be kept in the states' prison systems.
- Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary - It houses the most dangerous prisoners in the country, as Fernandinho Beira-Mar, the Colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía and bicheiro João Arcanjo.
- Presidio of Ahu
C
Bío Bío Region
- Chillán Public Prison, Chillán
- El Manzano, Concepción
Los Ríos Region
- Isla Teja Prison, Valdivia
- Complejo Penitenciario de Valdivia, Valdivia
Santiago Metropolitan Region
- Ex Penitenciaría de Santiago, Santiago
- San Miguel Prison, Santiago
- Santiago Public Prison, Santiago
- List of prisons in Anhui
- List of prisons in Beijing
- List of prisons in Chongqing
- List of prisons in Fujian
- List of prisons in Gansu
- List of prisons in Guangdong
- List of prisons in Guangxi
- List of prisons in Guizhou
- List of prisons in Hainan
- List of prisons in Hebei
- List of prisons in Heilongjiang
- List of prisons in Henan
- List of prisons in Hong Kong
- List of prisons in Hubei
- List of prisons in Hunan
- List of prisons in Inner Mongolia
- List of prisons in Jiangsu
- List of prisons in Jiangxi province
- List of prisons in Jilin
- List of prisons in Liaoning
- List of prisons in Ningxia
- List of prisons in Qinghai
- List of prisons in Shaanxi
- List of prisons in Shandong
- List of prisons in Shanghai
- List of prisons in Shanxi province
- List of prisons in Sichuan
- List of prisons in Tianjin
- List of prisons in the Tibet Autonomous Region
- List of prisons in Xinjiang
- List of prisons in Yunnan
- List of prisons in Zhejiang
[Macau]
- Coloane Prison - opened 1990
- Central Prison - closed 1990
- Ka Ho Prison - opened 2014
County prisons
- Zagreb
- Gospić
- Pula
- Šibenik
- Osijek
- Rijeka
- Split
- Varaždin
- Bjelovar
- Dubrovnik
- Karlovac
- Požega
- Sisak
- Zadar
State prisons, penitentiaries and prison hospitals
- Glina
- Lepoglava
- Lipovica-Popovača
- Požega
- Turopolja
- Valtura
- Zagreb prison hospital
Former regime prisons and penal colonies
- Goli otok
- Sv. Grgur
D
- Blegdamsvej Prison
- Copenhagen Police Headquarters Prison
- Horsens Statsfængsel
- Horserød camp
- Institution of Herstedvester
- Nytorv Prison
- State Prison in Jyderup
- State Prison in Møgelkær
- State Prison in Nyborg
- State Prison in Renbæk
- State Prison in Ringe
- State Prison at Sdr. Omme
- State Prison at Søbysøgård
- State Prison in Vridsløselille
- State Prison of Central Jutland
- State Prison of East Jutland
- State Prison of Kragskovhede
- Vestre Prison
E
- Isla Isabela
- Prison 1, Quito
- Scorpion Prison
- Tora Prison
- Wadi el-Natrun Prison
- Nakura, Dahlak Archipelago
- Ämari Prison, Ämari
- Fat Margaret, Tallinn
- Haapsalu Castle
- Harju Gate, Tallinn
- Harku Prison, Harku
- Jägala concentration camp, Jägala
- Klooga concentration camp, Klooga
- Lasnamäe Prison, Tallinn
- Maardu Prison, Maardu
- Murru Prison, Rummu
- Pagari street, Tallinn
- Pärnu Prison, Pärnu
- Patarei Prison, Tallinn
- Tallinn Prison, Tallinn
- Tartu Prison, Tartu
- Toompea Castle, Tallinn
- Vaivara concentration camp, Vaivara
- Viljandi Prison, Viljandi
- Viru Prison, Jõhvi
- Võru Prison, Võru
F
- former Helsinki County Prison or Katajanokka Prison, so called "Nokka" or "Skatta"
- Sörnäinen Prison, so called "Sörkka", Helsinki
- Turku Prison
- Hämeenlinna Prison, Hämeenlinna
- Oulu Prison, Oulu
- Riihimäki Prison, Riihimäki
- Sukeva Prison, Sonkajärvi
- Konnunsuo Prison, Konnunsuo, Lappeenranta
- Pelso Prison, Vaala
- The Bastille, Paris '
- Château d'If, Marseille '
- Bagne of Toulon
- Clairvaux Prison
- Fleury-Mérogis Prison
- Fresnes Prison, Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, near Paris
- La Santé Prison, Paris
- Leandro Prison, Montpellier
G
- Brandenburg-Görden Prison
- Ebrach Abbey
- Hohenasperg
- Hoheneck women's prison
- Landsberg Prison
- Spandau Prison, Berlin
- Stammheim Prison
- Werl Prison, Werl
- Nsawam Prison
- Kumasi Prison
- Ho Prison
- Sunyani Prison
- Korydallos Prison, Korydallos
- Ioannia Prison, Ioannia
- Komotini Prison, Komotini
- Corinth Prison, Corinth
- Thessaloniki Prison, Thessaloniki
- Larissa Prison, Larissa
- Nafplio Prison, Nafplio
- Neapolis Prison, Neapolis
- Tripoli Prison, Tripoli
- Chania Prison, Chania
- Chios Prison, Chios
- Kos Prison, Kos
- Amfissa Preventorium For Prisoners, Amfissa
H
- Állampusztai Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Állampuszta
- Balassagyarmati Fegyház és Börtön, Balassagyarmat
- Budapesti Fegyház és Börtön, Budapest
- Fiatalkorúak Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézete, Tököl, Szirmabesenyő, Kecskemét
- Kalocsai Börtön, Kalocsa
- Márianosztrai Fegyház és Börtön, Márianosztra
- Nagyfai Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Algyő-nagyfa
- Pálhalmai Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Dunaújváros-pálhalma
- Sátoraljaújhelyi Fegyház és Börtön, Sátoraljaújhely
- Sopronkőhidai Fegyház és Börtön, Sopronkőhida
- Szegedi Fegyház és Börtön, Szeged Csillagbörtön / Star Prison
- Tiszalöki Országos Büntetés-végrehajtási Intézet, Tiszalök
- Váci Fegyház és Börtön, Vác
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