Also, as katrin points out, psychiatric wards tend to be very prisonlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [US versus Them] Reference

Through its prisonlike bars, the elevator provided a good view of each floor as it slowly rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing in the Dark]

He recoiled at the prisonlike bars, the clanging metal doors, and the strict rules about coming and going.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Con Man Who Caused a War'] Reference

To my left were the vast buildings of the prisonlike projects and to my right were the empty warehouse streets of the canal area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Double Life is Twice as Good] Reference

Against the woolly mist it looked cold and prisonlike; it was attached to the original part of the abbey, which clung like an appendage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

But life behind high walls sounds as much prisonlike as privileged - Mubarak's hardly preparing to go snorkeling or gambling, the main diversions here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where is Egypt's Hosni Mubarak?] Reference

One contemporary newspaper account described the prison and jail complex, known as the Rhode Island State Prison, as "gruesome ... of all prisons the most prisonlike in outward show, dreary to see, dreary in history.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Providence Prison] Reference

Kidd was held in prisonlike conditions for 16 days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Modern routine work without diversion was a treadmill, prisonlike existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desired Woman] Reference

I was bit surprised you keep them behind razor wires and armed guards and enforce prisonlike rules on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

He knew also that if the flood caught him there between those prisonlike walls he would be drowned like a rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Boy at Hilltop] Reference

Instead, U.S. officials detained Silewa for eight months in overcrowded, prisonlike conditions until his asylum case was processed.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

You'll also be given control of Delta-Six, an amnesiac trapped inside a prisonlike hospital, whose past is inextricably linked to Odin's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

For some, the discouragement is so great they lose their enthusiasm altogether or must settle for a small garden within a prisonlike compound.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community] Reference

The facilities are expected to be less prisonlike, offering freer movement for detainees, fewer pat-downs and better access to legal resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Overall, the facilities are expected to be less prisonlike, offering freer movement for detainees, fewer pat downs and better access to legal resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [detnews.com - Autos Insider] Reference

The film chronicles the ACLU's successful legal challenge to the prisonlike conditions at a Texas detention center where immigrant children and their families were held.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACLU online newsroom] Reference

In Indonesia, says Mr. Manne, refugees are detained "in appalling, dangerous, often prisonlike conditions" while they wait, sometimes for up to nine years, to be resettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference

ICE wants to create a less-restrictive environment for those who are low risk and not criminals, but those with criminal histories or who are otherwise a danger will remain in prisonlike settings, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

It also permitted authorities to hold certain suspects -including US citizens like Kidd - in harsh, prisonlike conditions to facilitate coercive interrogations without Miranda warnings or access to a lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

ICE wants to create a less restrictive environment for those who are low-risk and are not criminals, but those with criminal histories or who are otherwise a danger will remain in prisonlike settings, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

To get here, he fled death threats in Iraq in 2005, crossed many borders, worked endless dirty jobs, walked for days through Mexico to Tijuana, and spent eight months in prisonlike conditions at detention centers in San Diego.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Currently, asylum-seekers and immigrants awaiting deportation proceedings are mostly held in prisonlike facilities with razor wire, jail-style uniforms and armed guards even though many have never been convicted of a crime and are not considered a threat.    From Wordnik.com.  [detnews.com - Autos Insider] Reference

It could end confinement in prisonlike facilities - complete with razor wire, jail-style uniforms, armed guards and partitions that prevent physical contact with loved ones - for those who have never been convicted of a crime and are not considered a threat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

The film, co-produced and co-directed by Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda and produced by Marcy Garriott, chronicles the ACLU's successful legal challenge to the prisonlike conditions at a Texas detention center where immigrant children and their families were held.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union] Reference

ICE Director John Morton announced last year that the agency would make detention facilities less prisonlike because immigrant detainees are being held on civil immigration charges, not criminal offenses, though it was unclear at the time what changes would be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [detnews.com - Autos Insider] Reference

Called the Sanction, Treatment, Assessment and Revocation Transition program, or START, the regimen is intended to be in a prisonlike setting where errant probationers can get a sampling of life behind bars while also receiving therapy to help them succeed in society.    From Wordnik.com.  [billingsgazette.com] Reference

ICE Director John Morton announced last year that the agency would make detention facilities less prisonlike because immigrant detainees are being held on civil immigration charges, not criminal offenses, though it was not clear at the time what changes would be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

Our happiness is kept from us by prisonlike schools and meaningless jobs, un (der) employment and untreated physical and psychological ailments, by political leaders who scare the votes out of us and corporate "persons" that buy up all the resources that have been created and defined by our labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet] Reference

In contrast, Dylan’s bed, furniture, and wall looked positively prisonlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything but the Truth] Reference

Last year, the fest’s debut featured two nights headlined by Radiohead and many other impressive bands, but also endless lines for food, pain-in-the-ass ferry and parking problems and what lots of people thought were draconian restrictions on beer drinkers (small, prisonlike drinking pen, five-beer maximum).    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Festival Economics] Reference

From prisonlike cellars unwholesome and drear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Vol. IV] Reference

From the street, it looks almost prisonlike.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

An equestrian statue of one of the Georges rises at the east corner; Morley's Hotel, where Americans get poor fare and enormous charges, with the privilege of fancying themselves quite as good as the queen, on the left; the dead walls of Northumberland House, with their prisonlike aspect, and the mounted lion, his tail high in air, and quite as rigid as the Duke's dignity, in front; the opening that terminates the Strand, and gives place to Parliament street, at the head of which an equestrian statue of Charles the First, much admired by Englishmen, stands, his back on Westminster; the dingy shops of Spring Garden, and the Union Club to the right; and, towering high over all, Nelson's.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference