PRISON

A public building for the confinement or safe custody of persons, whether as a punishment imposed by the law or other• wise in the course of the administration of justice. See Scar borough v. Thornton, 9 Pa. 451; Sturtevant v. Com., 158 Ma . 598, 33 N. E. 648; Pen. Code N. Y. 1903, I 92. -Prison bo-ds. The limits of the territory surrounding a prison, within which an impria- [s. 946]