Bible Verses About Prisons: State

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.