Prison

A public building for the confinement .or safe custody of persons, whether as a punishment imposed by the law or otherwise In the course of the administration of justice. See Scarborough v. Thornton, 9 Pa. 451; Sturtevant v. Co.m., 158 Mass. 598, 33 N. E. 648; Pen. Code N. Y. 1903, § 92.

— Prison bounds. The limits of the territory surrounding a prison, within which an imprisoned debtor, who is out on bands, may go at will. See Gaol.

— Prison-breaking. The common-law offense of one who, being lawfully in custody, escapes from the place where he is confined, by the employment of force and violence. This offense is to be distinguished from "rescue," (q. v.,) which is a deliverance of a prisoner from lawful custody by a third person. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 1065.