Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by function]
8. institutional buildings

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment
4. Built Complexes and Districts
5. complexes
6. complexes by function
7. detention complexes

Narrower term/s

• jails (buildings)[+]
  • gaols
  • dungeons (jails)
• prisons (buildings)[+]
  • [prison buildings by form or function] [+]
    • open prisons
    • debtors' prisons [+]
      • compters
    • maximum-security prisons
    • minimum-security prisons
    • medium-security prisons
    • penitentiaries (buildings)
  • [prison buildings by administration] [+]
    • federal prisons (buildings)
    • state prisons (buildings)
    • military prisons (buildings)
• ergastula
• reformatories (buildings)[+]
  • detention centers [+]
    • juvenile justice centers [NP]
• workhouses (buildings)
• lockups
• juvenile justice centers [NP]
• houses of correction (buildings)

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for buildings or groups of buildings in which people accused or convicted of breaking the law may be confined and which may or may not attempt some form of reform or rehabilitative correction of offenders.