Prisons

A prison, also known as a jail (or, according to Miss Piggy, also known as the big house, squealer, slammer, or the joint) is a facility in which prisoners are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. 
A common media trope is to depict prisoners behind bars in black-and-white striped uniforms with matching pillbox hats.
==Prisoners==
Wontkins jail.jpg|Wontkins is jailed for not drinking Wilkins Coffee in the Wilkins Coffee "Jailhouse" spot.
Dean-317b.jpg|Rowlf dreams he is in prison and Jimmy Dean joins him to sing "The Prisoner's Song" in a 1966 episode of The Jimmy Dean Show.
PrionserJim.jpg|The Man is put in jail (and eventually ) in Time Piece.
Wizardofid-04.jpg|The Spook is shown in jail in The Wizard of Id pilot.
104-13.jpg|Ruth Buzzi plays a military prisoner who is interrogated in episode 104 of The Muppet Show.
Patrol514.jpg|Various criminals, suspects and other characters are put in the station's holding cell in the "Bear on Patrol" sketches on The Muppet Show.
StatlerWaldorfJail.jpg|Statler and Waldorf are imprisoned in their balcony for 20 years in The Muppet Show episode 414.
GMC-PiggyPrision.png|Miss Piggy is arrested and held in one of Her Majesty's prisons after being framed for stealing Lady Holiday's necklace in The Great Muppet Caper.
Fragglerockrock.jpg|The Fraggles are imprisoned by the Gorgs and stand trial in the Fraggle Rock episode "Wembley and the Gorgs."
Hohoho.jpg|Mokey is imprisoned by the Cave Fraggles in the Fraggle Rock episode "Fraggle Wars."
NoisyneighborsJail.jpg|The babies' imaginations run wild as they fear Officer Carruthers will put them in jail for being too loud in the first episode of Muppet Babies.
Jailbirds.jpg|The babies appear as jailbirds during the "Jailbirds" song in the Muppet Babies episode "Kermit Goes to Washington."
EarlJail.jpg|Earl Sinclair goes to jail ("The Big House") for copyright infringement in the Dinosaurs episode "Georgie Must Die."
MCC-Prisoner.jpg|One-Eyed Jack is shown sitting in a jail cell on Christmas day in The Muppet Christmas Carol (echoing Scrooge's earlier line about where the poor should go, "Are there no prisons? Are there no poorhouses?")
DogCityJail.jpg|Ace Hart is charged with dognapping and put behind bars before being taken to the electric doggy bed in the Dog City episode "In Your Dreams."
PirateJail.jpg|Polly, Clueless and Mad Monty are locked up in the brig of the Hispaniola after torturing Gonzo and Rizzo in Muppet Treasure Island.
3058l.jpg|Telly imagines himself going to court and being thrown in prison in Episode 3058.
Rudman-GrouchJail.jpg|A Grouch (David Rudman) in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.
GrouchlandJail.png|The residents of Sesame Street are locked up in the Grouchland Jail in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.
RatJail.jpg|Rizzo's time with the rats in the C.O.V.N.E.T. lab in Muppets from Space parodies many prison movie tropes.
AnimalPrisonerOfLove.jpg|In 2001, as part of The Muppet Show’s 25th anniversary line of products, Nanco released a Valentine's Day plush toy of Animal as a "Prisoner of Love" (dressed in a striped prison uniform and chained to a heart). 
PepeJail.jpg|Pepe is said to have escaped from jail in the world in which Kermit was never born in a deleted scene from It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie.
FuzzyPack1920 13.jpg|The Muppets are thrown in jail in a deleted scene from The Muppets.
TheMuppets-TheFuzzyPack-Teaser-DannyTrejo.jpg|Danny Trejo appears as a fellow-detainee to the Muppets in jail in a deleted scene from The Muppets.
KermitGulag.jpg|Various prisoners, including Kermit the Frog, Prison King, Big Papa, and Danny Trejo, in Gulag 38B in Muppets Most Wanted.
ConstantineJail.jpg|Constantine appeared behind bars at Disney's Hollywood Studios in August 2014.
MuppetHauntedMansionTrailer (40).jpg|The ghost of Cousin Huet (Danny Trejo) is still imprisoned in Muppets Haunted Mansion even though the caretaker expresses that "we all know you didn't do it."
==Honorable Mentions==
* Jim Henson's experimental film The Cube examines the nature of freedom and being trapped with a man being trapped inside a cube.
* The Labyrinth from the film of the same name, includes oubliettes, dark pits or dungeons meant to trap and contain people to be forgotten.
* Meteora considers the Christmas package she was in to be a prison before Rugby Tiger convinces her otherwise in The Christmas Toy.
* Before Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats perform "Gonna Rock You to Sleep," Irvine rattles her cup against her crib bars, calling out for a lawyer as if she's in prison.
* Stiller the Elf worries about going to prison after losing The Christmas Counter-Downer in Elmo's Christmas Countdown, listing various synonyms for "jail."
*The Netflix series Orange is the New Black (which is about a women's prison) was parodied on Sesame Street, swapping the prison setting for a school.
==Wardens and guards==
* Peggy Aitchison as the prison guard in The Great Muppet Caper
* Grouch Jailer and Grouch Cop as personnel of the Grouchland Jail in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
* Officer Ethel as the jail attendant in The Muppets deleted scene
* Nadya (the warden) and Ivan (the guard) of Gulag 38B in Muppets Most Wanted
==Songs about prison==
* "The Big House" from Muppets Most Wanted
* "Fraggle Rock Rock" from Fraggle Rock
* "Jailbirds" from Muppet Babies
* "The Prisoner's Song" from The Jimmy Dean Show
* "Stop" (unused song) for The Great Muppet Caper
==See also==
* Sesame Street Goes to Prison
* Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration
* Devices of death and torture
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