Prisoner (disambiguation)

"Inmate" redirects here. For British rock band, see The Inmates.

A prisoner is someone incarcerated in a prison, jail or similar facility.

Prisoner or The Prisoner may also refer to:

• Prisoner of war, a soldier in wartime, held as by an enemy
• Political prisoner, someone held in prison for their ideology
• Operation Inmate, World War II bombardment of Japanese bases in the Caroline Islands

TV and film

• The Prisoner, a 1967 UK television series starring Patrick McGoohan
  • Its main character, usually addressed in the series as Number Six
  • The Prisoner (video game), a 1980 computer game based upon the series
  • The Prisoner (2009 miniseries), a remake of the 1967 series
• Prisoner (TV series), an Australian soap opera that ran from 1979 to 1986, also known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK and the USA and "Caged Women" in Canada
• "Prisoner" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2005 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• "Prisoners" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• The Prisoner (1923 film), a 1923 film featuring Boris Karloff
• The Prisoner (1955 film), a 1955 film starring Alec Guinness
• Island of Fire, a 1991 Hong Kong film starring Jackie Chan, also known as The Prisoner
• The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, a 2007 documentary
• Prisoners (film), a 1981 American-New Zealand drama film

Music

Albums:

• Prisoner (Cher album), a 1979 album by Cher
• Prisoner (The Jezabels album), a 2011 album by Australian band The Jezabels
• The Prisoner (album), a 1969 album by Herbie Hancock

Songs:

• "Prisoner" (Dokken song), 1987
• "Prisoner" (Jeffree Star song), 2009
• "Prisoners", a song by The Vapors on the Canadian release of their 1980 album New Clear Days
• "The Prisoner" (George Baker song), 1970
• "The Prisoner" (Howard Jones song), 1989
• "The Prisoner" (Iron Maiden song), 1982
• The Prisoners, a mod revival British band

Literature

• Prisoner 24601, the number assigned to Jean Valjean, the main character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables
• The fifth volume of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, which is entitled La Prisonnière (The Prisoner)
• The Prisoner, a short story found in The Soft Voice of the Serpent by South African author Nadine Gordimer
• Eddie Dean (The Dark Tower), a character in The Dark Tower Series referred to as "The Prisoner" in a prophecy

See also

• Prisoner's dilemma
• Detention (imprisonment)
• Convict
• Inmate telephone system
• Prison officer