Total institutions

thumb|A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum 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. They may also be used to house those awaiting trial (pre-trial detention). Prisons serve two primary functions within the criminal-justice system: holding people charged with crimes while they await trial, and confining those who have pleaded guilty or been convicted to serve out their sentences

thumb|Sharabai Monastery (Himachal Pradesh) A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities (as cenobites) or alone (as hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a num

camp in which people are imprisoned or confined, commonly in large groups, without trial

thumb|upright=1.2|Ladies of Caubul|Kabul (1848 lithograph, by James Rattray) showing unveiling in [[zenana areas.]]

concentration camps operated by Nazi Germany

thumb|300px|Late 18th century barracks from the reign of George III, [[Edinburgh Castle, Scotland]] Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word 'soldier's tent', but today barracks are usually permanent buildings. The word may apply to separate housing blocks or to complete complexes, and the plural form often refers to a single structure and may be singular in construction.

thumb|Former Jewish orphanage in Berlin-Pankow thumb|Sofianlehto Orphanage from 1930 in Helsinki, Finland

school where some or all students live on campus

hospital treating serious mental disorders

thumb|Boers|Boer women and children in a British concentration camp in South Africa (1899–1902)|270x270px Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement rather than confinement after having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities. The word internment is also occasionally used to desc

detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment

residential school system

site for the containment of combatants captured by their enemy in time of war

form of enclosed place of work and residence

system of camps used to deport Ukrainians into Russia

institution where people with mental illness were confined

residential treatment center school in Chicago, Illinois, United States