Bible Verses About Prisons: State

And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.