Prison

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, usually as punishment for various crimes.
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  • Type: Prison
  • Description: place in which people are, for legal reasons, physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms
  • Also known as: “gaol”, “jail”, “penitentiary”, “pokey”, “prison”, “slammer”, and “South Central Regional Jail”
  • Address: 1001 Centre Way, Charleston, WV 25309

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ivydale and Ruthdale.

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Hamlet
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Prison

Latitude
38.31056° or 38° 18′ 38″ north
Longitude
-81.71007° or 81° 42′ 36″ west
Elevation
961 feet (293 metres)
Open location code
86CW876Q+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 221122403
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­prison
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­prison
Geo­Names ID
8086448
Wiki­data ID
Q40357
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Prison” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “tronk”
  • Afrikaans: “Tronk”
  • Akan: “aban koko”
  • Albanian: “burg”
  • Albanian: “burgje”
  • Albanian: “burgu”
  • Albanian: “Burgu”
  • Arabic: “السجن”
  • Arabic: “سجن”
  • Aragonese: “Cachola”
  • Aragonese: “Casa d’a galera”
  • Aragonese: “Garchola”
  • Aragonese: “Garlocha”
  • Aragonese: “Gayola”
  • Aragonese: “Prisión”
  • Armenian: “բանտ”
  • Armenian: “Բանտ”
  • Asturian: “cárcel”
  • Asturian: “Cárcel”
  • Asturian: “cárcele”
  • Asturian: “centru penitenciariu”
  • Asturian: “prisión”
  • Aymara: “Mutüwi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həbsxana”
  • Basque: “espetxe”
  • Basque: “Espetxe”
  • Basque: “gartzela”
  • Basque: “kartzela”
  • Basque: “presondegi”
  • Belarusian: “вязьніца”
  • Belarusian: “турма”
  • Belarusian: “Турма”
  • Bengali: “কারাগার”
  • Bengali: “জেল”
  • Bosnian: “zatvor”
  • Bosnian: “Zatvor”
  • Breton: “Toull-bac’h”
  • Bulgarian: “Затвор”
  • Burmese: “အကျဉ်းထောင်”
  • Catalan: “centre penitenciari”
  • Catalan: “presó”
  • Catalan: “Presó”
  • Catalan: “presons”
  • Cebuano: “Bilanggoan”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەندیخانە”
  • Cherokee: “ᏗᏓᏍᏚᏗ”
  • Chinese: “Kaⁿ-ga̍k”
  • Chinese: “囹圄”
  • Chinese: “牢獄”
  • Chinese: “监牢”
  • Chinese: “监狱”
  • Chinese: “監獄”
  • Chuvash: “Тĕрме”
  • Croatian: “Zatočeništvo”
  • Croatian: “Zatvor”
  • Croatian: “Zatvori”
  • Czech: “nápravně výchovné zařízení”
  • Czech: “nápravné zařízení”
  • Czech: “šatlava”
  • Czech: “vězení”
  • Czech: “věznění”
  • Czech: “věznice”
  • Czech: “Věznice”
  • Czech: “žalář”
  • Danish: “fængsel”
  • Danish: “Fængsel”
  • Danish: “forbedringshus”
  • Danish: “tugthus”
  • Dutch: “cachot”
  • Dutch: “cellenhuis”
  • Dutch: “gevang”
  • Dutch: “gevangenis”
  • Dutch: “Gevangenis”
  • Dutch: “penitentiaire inrichting”
  • Dutch: “stadsgevangenis”
  • Dutch: “strafgevangenis”
  • Dutch: “strafinrichting”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سجن”
  • Erzya: “Умория”
  • Esperanto: “malliberejo”
  • Esperanto: “Malliberejo”
  • Esperanto: “prizono”
  • Estonian: “Rootsi kardinad”
  • Estonian: “vangla”
  • Estonian: “Vangla”
  • Faroese: “Fangahús”
  • Faroese: “Fongsul”
  • Fe'fe': “Nd??ten?”
  • Finnish: “Nuorisovankila”
  • Finnish: “Rangaistuslaitos”
  • Finnish: “vankila”
  • Finnish: “Vankila”
  • French: “contexte carcéral”
  • French: “établissement pénitentiaire”
  • French: “geôle”
  • French: “gnouf”
  • French: “milieu carcéral”
  • French: “pénitentiaire”
  • French: “prison”
  • French: “Prison”
  • French: “prisons”
  • Galician: “cadea”
  • Galician: “caldeiro”
  • Galician: “cárcere”
  • Galician: “centro penal”
  • Galician: “centro penitenciario”
  • Galician: “Centro penitenciario”
  • Galician: “penal”
  • Galician: “presidio”
  • Galician: “prisión”
  • Gan Chinese: “牢監”
  • German: “Gefangenensammelstelle”
  • German: “Gefangenensammelstellen”
  • German: “Gefängnis”
  • German: “Gefängnisse”
  • German: “GeS”
  • German: “GeSs”
  • German: “Haftanstalt”
  • German: “Haftanstalten”
  • German: “Hochsicherheitsgefängnis”
  • German: “Hochsicherheitsgefängnisse”
  • German: “Justizvollzugsanstalt”
  • German: “Justizvollzugsanstalten”
  • German: “JVA”
  • German: “JVAs”
  • German: “Kittchen”
  • German: “Knast”
  • German: “Knasts”
  • German: “Strafanstalt”
  • German: “Strafanstalten”
  • German: “Strafvollzugsanstalt”
  • German: “Strafvollzugsanstalten”
  • Greek: “κατάστημα κράτησης”
  • Greek: “στενή”
  • Greek: “σωφρονιστικό κατάστημα”
  • Greek: “φυλακές”
  • Greek: “φυλακή”
  • Greek: “Φυλακή”
  • Gujarati: “કારાગૃહ”
  • Gujarati: “જેલ”
  • Haitian: “kote yo met moun ki pagen libète”
  • Haitian: “prizon”
  • Hausa: “Gidan Yari”
  • Hebrew: “בית אסורים”
  • Hebrew: “בית כלא”
  • Hebrew: “בית סוהר”
  • Hebrew: “כלא”
  • Hindi: “कारागार”
  • Hindi: “कारागृह”
  • Hindi: “कैदखाना”
  • Hindi: “जेल”
  • Hungarian: “börtön”
  • Hungarian: “fegyház”
  • Hungarian: “Fegyház”
  • Icelandic: “fangelsi”
  • Icelandic: “Fangelsi”
  • Icelandic: “tukthús”
  • Ido: “Karcero”
  • Iloko: “Pagbaludan”
  • Inari Sami: “faŋgâl”
  • Inari Sami: “kiddâgâs”
  • Indonesian: “bui”
  • Indonesian: “kurungan”
  • Indonesian: “lapas”
  • Indonesian: “Lembaga pemasyarakatan”
  • Indonesian: “Lembaga Permasyarakatan”
  • Indonesian: “penjara”
  • Indonesian: “Penjara”
  • Irish: “príosún”
  • Irish: “Príosún”
  • Italian: “carcere”
  • Italian: “casa circondariale”
  • Italian: “casa di reclusione”
  • Italian: “galera”
  • Italian: “istituto di pena”
  • Italian: “penitenziario”
  • Italian: “prigione”
  • Italian: “Prigione”
  • Japanese: “刑務所”
  • Japanese: “牢”
  • Japanese: “牢屋”
  • Japanese: “牢獄”
  • Japanese: “獄”
  • Japanese: “監獄”
  • Javanese: “Kunjara”
  • Javanese: “Pakunjaran”
  • Kabyle: “Takurmut”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರಾಗೃಹ”
  • Kashmiri: “جیل”
  • Kashmiri: “قٲد خانہٕ”
  • Kashubian: “prëzón”
  • Kazakh: “Абақты”
  • Kazakh: “Зындан”
  • Kazakh: “Лабақты”
  • Kazakh: “Түрме”
  • Kikuyu: “Kũherethu(njera)”
  • Kirghiz: “Түрмө”
  • Korean: “감방”
  • Korean: “감옥”
  • Korean: “교도소”
  • Korean: “교화소”
  • Korean: “구치소”
  • Korean: “소년교도소”
  • Korean: “형무소”
  • Kurdish: “girtîgeh”
  • Kurdish: “Girtîgeh”
  • Latin: “Carcer”
  • Latvian: “cietums”
  • Latvian: “Cietums”
  • Lingala: “Bolóko”
  • Literary Chinese: “牢獄”
  • Lithuanian: “kalėjimai”
  • Lithuanian: “kalėjimas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalėjimas”
  • Lithuanian: “kalinys”
  • Lombard: “Preson”
  • Lule Sami: “fáŋŋgagoahte”
  • Lule Sami: “giddagis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bing”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kittchen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Klemmes”
  • Luxembourgish: “Prison”
  • Luxembourgish: “Prisong”
  • Macedonian: “затвор”
  • Macedonian: “Затвор”
  • Malay: “jel”
  • Malay: “kurungan”
  • Malay: “penjara”
  • Malay: “Penjara”
  • Malay: “rumah pasung”
  • Malay: “tempat tahanan”
  • Malay: “تمڤت تاهنن”
  • Malay: “جيل”
  • Malay: “رومه ڤاسوڠ”
  • Malay: “ڤنجارا”
  • Malay: “کوروڠن”
  • Malayalam: “ജയിൽ”
  • Maltese: “ħabs”
  • Manchu: “ᡤᡳᠨᡩᠠᠨᠠ”
  • Maori: “Whare herehere”
  • Marathi: “कारागृह”
  • Marathi: “तुरुंग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kaⁿ-ga̍k”
  • Minangkabau: “Kandang situmbin”
  • Minangkabau: “panjaro”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “حبس”
  • Nepali: “कारागार”
  • Nepali: “कारावास”
  • Nepali: “जेल”
  • Northern Frisian: “suart hool”
  • Northern Sami: “giddagas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Botsfengsel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “fengsel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fengsler”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “fengsel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fengsel”
  • Norwegian: “Fengsel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Preson”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “prison”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܒܘܫܝܐ”
  • Ossetian: “ахæстон”
  • Paiwan: “rusung”
  • Panjabi: “ਜੇਲ੍ਹ”
  • Persian: “زندان”
  • Polish: “więzienie”
  • Polish: “zakład karny”
  • Polish: “Zakład karny”
  • Portuguese: “cadeia”
  • Portuguese: “Cadeia”
  • Portuguese: “cárcere”
  • Portuguese: “Cárcere”
  • Portuguese: “casa de correção”
  • Portuguese: “Casa de correção”
  • Portuguese: “casa de detenção”
  • Portuguese: “Casa de detenção”
  • Portuguese: “Casas de correção”
  • Portuguese: “estabelecimento prisional”
  • Portuguese: “penitenciaria”
  • Portuguese: “penitenciária”
  • Portuguese: “Penitenciária”
  • Portuguese: “presidio”
  • Portuguese: “Presidio”
  • Portuguese: “presídio”
  • Portuguese: “prisão”
  • Pushto: “محبس”
  • Quechua: “Carcel”
  • Quechua: “Cárcel”
  • Quechua: “Hatun wichqay wasi”
  • Quechua: “Karsil”
  • Quechua: “Prision”
  • Quechua: “Prisión”
  • Quechua: “Prison”
  • Quechua: “Samk’ay wasi”
  • Quechua: “Samkay wasi”
  • Quechua: “Sank’ay wasi”
  • Quechua: “Wichq’ay wasi”
  • Quechua: “Wichqay wasi”
  • Romagnol: “chérzar”
  • Romanian: “închisoare”
  • Romanian: “Închisoare”
  • Romanian: “penitenciar”
  • Romanian: “pușcărie”
  • Romanian: “unitate de detenție”
  • Russian: “зона”
  • Russian: “исправительное учреждение”
  • Russian: “казённый дом”
  • Russian: “каталажка”
  • Russian: “кутузка”
  • Russian: “место заключения”
  • Russian: “место отбытия наказания”
  • Russian: “нары”
  • Russian: “пенитенциарий”
  • Russian: “пенитенциарное учреждение”
  • Russian: “темница”
  • Russian: “тюрьма”
  • Russian: “Тюрьма”
  • Samogitian: “Kalėnīs”
  • Scots: “Preeson”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Prìosan”
  • Serbian: “затвор”
  • Serbian: “Затвор”
  • Serbian: “Тамница”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “zatvor”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zatvor”
  • Shan: “ၶွၵ်ႈ”
  • Shan: “ထွင်ႇ”
  • Sicilian: “càrciara”
  • Sicilian: “càrciri”
  • Sicilian: “càrzara”
  • Sicilian: “càrzari”
  • Sicilian: “Càrzari”
  • Sicilian: “casa circunnariali”
  • Sicilian: “priggiòni”
  • Sindhi: “جيل”
  • Sinhala: “බන්ධනාගාර”
  • Skolt Sami: “tuʹrmm”
  • Slovak: “nápravno-výchovné zariadenie”
  • Slovak: “nápravnovýchovný ústav”
  • Slovak: “ústav na výkon trestu odňatia slobody”
  • Slovak: “väzenie”
  • Slovak: “väznica”
  • Slovak: “Väznica”
  • Slovenian: “arest”
  • Slovenian: “ječa”
  • Slovenian: “kazen zapora”
  • Slovenian: “kazenska ustanova”
  • Slovenian: “kazenski zavod”
  • Slovenian: “kaznilnica”
  • Slovenian: “keha”
  • Slovenian: “popravna ustanova”
  • Slovenian: “ustanova za izvrševanje kazenskih sankcij”
  • Slovenian: “zapor”
  • Slovenian: “Zapor”
  • Slovenian: “zaporna kazen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زیندان”
  • Spanish: “cárcel”
  • Spanish: “carcelario”
  • Spanish: “carcelazo”
  • Spanish: “carcelería”
  • Spanish: “carceles”
  • Spanish: “cárceles”
  • Spanish: “centro de detención”
  • Spanish: “centro de reclusión”
  • Spanish: “centro penitenciario”
  • Spanish: “chirona”
  • Spanish: “encarcelado”
  • Spanish: “institución penitenciaria”
  • Spanish: “penitenciaria”
  • Spanish: “penitenciaría”
  • Spanish: “presidio”
  • Spanish: “prisión”
  • Spanish: “Prisión”
  • Spanish: “prisiones”
  • Spanish: “reclusorio”
  • Spanish: “talego”
  • Spanish: “trena”
  • Spanish: “trullo”
  • Spanish: “tumbero”
  • Swahili: “Gereza”
  • Swedish: “anstalt”
  • Swedish: “Anstalt”
  • Swedish: “fängelse”
  • Swedish: “fängelsen”
  • Swedish: “fängelser”
  • Swedish: “fängelset”
  • Swedish: “fängsla”
  • Swedish: “fängslad”
  • Swedish: “fångvårdsanstalt”
  • Swedish: “kriminalvårdsanstalt”
  • Tajik: “Маҳбас”
  • Tamil: “சிறைச்சாலை”
  • Tatar: “төрмә”
  • Telugu: “కారాగారం”
  • Telugu: “కారాగారము”
  • Telugu: “చెరసాల”
  • Telugu: “జైలు”
  • Telugu: “సెంట్రల్ జైలు”
  • Thai: “คุก”
  • Thai: “ทัณฑสถาน”
  • Thai: “เรือนจำ”
  • Tibetan: “གོ་ར་”
  • Turkish: “cezaevi”
  • Turkish: “Cezaevi”
  • Turkish: “dam”
  • Turkish: “hapis”
  • Turkish: “hapishane”
  • Turkish: “kodes”
  • Turkish: “mahbes”
  • Turkish: “mahpus”
  • Turkish: “mahpushane”
  • Tuvinian: “Домзак”
  • Ukrainian: “буцегарня”
  • Ukrainian: “в’язниця”
  • Ukrainian: “В’язниця”
  • Ukrainian: “тюрма”
  • Ukrainian: “хурдига”
  • Upper Sorbian: “jastwo”
  • Upper Sorbian: “kłóda”
  • Urdu: “قید خانہ”
  • Uzbek: “Turma”
  • Venetian: “prezon”
  • Venetian: “Prezon”
  • Veps: “türm”
  • Vietnamese: “Khám tù”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngục”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà đày”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà giam”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà lao”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà ngục”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà pha”
  • Vietnamese: “nhà tù”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà tù”
  • Vietnamese: “Trại giam”
  • Vietnamese: “Tù”
  • Walloon: “Cadje”
  • Walloon: “Piole”
  • Walloon: “Prijhon”
  • Walloon: “Yoyo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Prisohan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Prisuhan”
  • Wayuu: “Kaatset”
  • Welsh: “carchar”
  • Welsh: “Carchar”
  • Western Armenian: “Բանտ”
  • Western Frisian: “finzenis”
  • Western Frisian: “Finzenis”
  • Western Frisian: “Penitinsjêre Ynrjochting”
  • Western Panjabi: “جیل”
  • Wu Chinese: “牢监”
  • Wu Chinese: “监狱”
  • Yiddish: “טורמע”
  • Yiddish: “תפיסה”
  • Yue Chinese: “監獄”
  • “Kalėnīs”
  • “tomo pi poki jan”

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