Prison Tropes

The Big House. The Slammer. The Pen. The Clink. The Hoosegow. The Calaboose.

Call it what you will, but stories set in prisons have their own set of tropes attached to them.


 * The Alcatraz
 * Birdcaged
 * Boxed Crook
 * Breaking Out the Boss
 * Captivity Harmonica
 * Cardboard Prison
 * Chained Heat
 * Consulting a Convicted Killer
 * Conveniently Cellmates
 * Epiphanic Prison
 * Gaol Time
 * Get Into Jail Free
 * Gilded Cage
 * Girl in The Tower
 * Girls Behind Bars
 * Great Escape
 * Had to Come To Prison To Be A Crook
 * Hellhole Prison
 * Implicit Prison
 * Institutional Apparel
 * Jail Bake
 * The Jailer
 * Lockdown
 * Locked Away in A Monastery
 * Locked in The Dungeon
 * Luxury Prison Suite
 * Man in The Iron Mask
 * Might As Well Not Be in Prison At All
 * The Old Convict
 * Passive Rescue
 * Penal Colony
 * POW Camp
 * Pounds Are Animal Prisons
 * Prison
 * Prison Episode
 * Prison Riot
 * Prisons Are Gymnasiums
 * Prison Ship
 * Punishment Box
 * Self-Restraint
 * Shipped in Shackles
 * Tailor-Made Prison
 * Trojan Prisoner
 * Tunnel King
 * What Are You in For
 * Working On the Chain Gang
 * You All Meet in A Cell