Prison vs. Borstal — What's the Difference?

A prison, also known as a jail or gaol (dated, British, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up or remand center is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment.

A Borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India, such a detention centre is known as a Borstal school.

A place for the confinement and punishment of persons convicted of crimes, especially felonies.

(UK) A way up a hill in the South Downs.

A state of imprisonment or captivity

(historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.

A place or condition of confinement or restriction

Any institution which provides education to young offenders.

To confine in or as if in a prison; imprison.

A British reform school for youths between 16 and 22.

A place or institution where people are held against their will, especially for long-term confinement of those awaiting trial or convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

A British reform school for youths between 16 and 22

(uncountable) Confinement in prison.

Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.

(transitive) To imprison.

A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.

To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

To bind (together); to enchain.

A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement