Bible Verses About Prisons: State

Yosef's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept; and there he was in the prison.

At that, Tzidkiyahu the king gave the order, at which they committed Yirmeyahu to the guards' quarters and gave him daily a loaf of bread from the Bakers' Street, until all the bread in the city had been used up. Thus Yirmeyahu remained in the guards' quarters.