0 a place where criminals are kept as a punishment -- cárcel
1 a place criminals are kept to be punished -- prisión [ feminine, singular ]
These people are taken into prison without proper documentation or proper charges being made.
We also think that prison is not the right place for young people.
Then there are the conditions in police stations and prisons.
Prisoners sentenced to caning are detained in prison without any idea of when their punishment will be carried out.
They are now serving 20 years in prison.
The situation in these prisons is indescribable.
We tried to visit them in prison but were not allowed in.
The first is that we should give more importance to alternative penalties to prison.