Bible Verses About Prisons: Often used severity

When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.