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• A person incarcerated in a prison, jail or similar facility
  • Federal inmate, a person convicted for violating a federal law in the United States
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  • Political prisoner, someone held in prison for their ideology
• Operation Inmate, World War II bombardment of Japanese bases in the Caroline Islands

Contents

• 1 TV and film
• 2 Music
• 3 Literature
• 4 See also

TV and film

• The Prisoner, a 1967 UK television series starring Patrick McGoohan.
  • Its main character, usually addressed in the series as "Number Six"
  • The Prisoner (video game), a 1980 computer game based upon the series
  • Prisoner 2, a 1982 computer game based upon the series
  • The Prisoner (2009 miniseries), a remake of the 1967 series
• Prisoner (TV series), an Australian soap opera that ran from 1979 to 1986, also known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK and the USA
• "Prisoners" (Stargate SG-1), an episode in the second season of Stargate SG-1
• Prisoner 345, a 2006 documentary film about Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj, who has been detained at the United States detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay detention camp since 2002
• The Prisoner (1923 film), a 1923 film featuring Boris Karloff
• The Prisoner (1955 film), a 1955 film starring Alec Guinness
• Island of Fire, a Hong Kong film starring Jackie Chan, also known as The Prisoner
• The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, a 2007 documentary

Music

• Prisoner (album), by singer-actress Cher released in 1979
• "The Prisoner" (song), an Iron Maiden song inspired by the 1967 TV series, from their 1982 album The Number of the Beast
• "Prisoners", a song by The Vapors on the Canadian release of their 1980 album New Clear Days
• "The Prisoner", a song by British singer-songwriter Howard Jones on his 1989 album Cross That Line
• "Prisoner" (Jeffree Star song), a 2009 single by Jeffree Star off his album Beauty Killer
• The Prisoner (album), by jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, a 1969 album released on Blue Note records
• The Prisoners, a mod revival British band.

Literature

• Prisoner 24601, the number assigned to Jean Valjean, the main character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables
• The fifth volume of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, which is entitled La Prisonnière (The Prisoner)
• The Prisoner, a short story found in The Soft Voice of the Serpent by South African author Nadine Gordimer
• Eddie Dean, a character in The Dark Tower Series referred to as "The Prisoner" in a prophecy.

See also

• Prisoner's dilemma
• Detention (imprisonment)
• Convict
• Inmate telephone system
• Corrections officer

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