pris·on 
(prĭzən)
(prĭzən)n.
1. A place for the confinement and punishment of persons convicted of crimes, especially felonies.
2. A state of imprisonment or captivity: years spent in prison.
3. A place or condition of confinement or restriction: felt his job had been a prison.
tr.v. pris·oned, pris·on·ing, pris·ons
To confine in or as if in a prison; imprison.
[Middle English, from Old French, alteration (influenced by Old French pris, taken) of Latin prēnsiō, prēnsiōn-, a seizing, from *prehēnsiō, from prehēnsus, past participle of prehendere, to seize; see ghend- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]