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** The Big House (again built by S.H.I.E.L.D.) seems to solve the problem in a unique way. Dr Hank Pym used his expertise of size alteration technology to shrink the otherwise normal prison - with the inmates in it - into the size of a model about 20’ square. Even if the ant size inmates try to escape, where would they go? To make it doubly difficult to escape, they put the model-size prison itself in the brig on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, meaning it is by extension about 6 miles above the ground. Still, a breakout still occured when [[She-Hulk]] visited on behalf of the Avengers and was given a tour. A group of inmates led by the Mad Thinker managed to escape by leaping on to her and hiding in her hair the way lice would. While the villains were quickly apprehended, the embarrassing public nature of the escape caused the Big House to closed down.
*** Later, Pym expanded on the idea by designing a similar prison, with interactions by human guards kept as a minimum, security filled mostly by [[Ant-Man]]'s insect friends, the small number of human guards wearing duplicates of his helmet. The prison is still in use (only one inmate, Titania, has been stated), and was named the Lang Memorial Penitentiary (in honor of Scott lane, the second Ant-Man), sometimes jokingly nicknamed the Ant Farm. For now, this place has averted this Trope, but… [[Tempting Fate| give them time...]]
** Crossmore Prison is Great Britain's answer to this. It actually has a pretty decent record as such; for example, they were able to successfully hold the Professor Xavier when he was possessed by the Shadow King, and they were able to nab Vixon in a sting by paying her to break out the Juggernaut when he was held there.<ref>Juggernaut would later escape after [[Loki (comics)|Loki]] broke him out.</ref> There have been some unfortunate incidents though; possibly the worst occured in one story had the imprisoned assassin Arcane manage to construct some [[Killer Robot]]s (the Loonies, he called them) while [[Might as Well Not Be in Prison At All| still behind bars]], siccing them on [[Captain Britain]].
* "Prison 42", nicknamed "Fantasy Island" by its inmates, debuted in ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]''. It's located in another dimension, accessible only by certain teleporter systems, secure and heavily coded. Many superheroes unwilling to register with the government were locked up there, and were indeed its first inmates. It was supposed to be the final answer to the Cardboard Prison. Naturally, the anti-registration heroes on the outside engineered a mass jailbreak...
** To be fair, many remained there after that and were only freed when Blaastar invaded.
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