Bible Verses About Prisons: Often bound with fetters

if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife; for he had married her.