Bible Verses About Prisons: Often used severity

When Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon, and unto the cells, then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days,

And now, hearken, I pray thee, my lord, O king, let my supplication fall, I pray thee, before thee, and cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I die not there.'

who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.