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A Prison Ship is a penitentiary, correctional facility, or jail that typically moves under its own power (though some prisoner transports or jail vessels have to be towednote Historically, jail ships were often old, outdated ships that were converted into floating jails.). Often featured to highlight the questionable moral standards of the villains or enemy force, the heroics of protagonist in withstanding the cramped conditions, a setting for a prison story, or to add movement and interest to what would otherwise be a static setting. It's also an easy way to set up The Alcatraz; in the middle of the ocean or in space, there's nowhere to escape to. For the purposes of this trope there are two types of Prison Ship: The Prison Transport: this modestly-sized vessel is either designed or modified to transport prisoners between facilities, not hold them permanently. The transport spaceship in Pitch Black is not an example as it had only one prisoner strapped in; the rest of the occupants were paying passengers. Conversely the prison transport in the Lexx miniseries would count because his divine shadow is just that thorough. In fiction, there are often depictions of criminal gangs ambushing or hijacking the prison transport to free their comrades, or to capture a rival gang leader who they want to "deal with". The Jail Ship: often a setting in and of itself, this large vessel is usually purpose built to hold prisoners permanently, often for unscrupulous deeds committed outside of the jurisdiction. Jail ships include those that are mobile under their power and old demobilized ships that are no longer fit for military use, and which have been converted to become floating jails (they are kept at a dock). Jail spaceships need to be large enough for cells (or stasis pods with life-support equipment if the prisoners are in Human Popsicle mode), guard quarters, guard stations, food preparation facilities, recreational areas, an infirmary, and so on. As well, they need some self-defense capacities to protect the Prison Ship from attackers who hope to free their comrades. Despite the name of the trope, it covers any mobile jail or prison transport, including trains and transport planes. Not to be confused with Shipping between prisoners. |
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Wonder Woman (1987): The Sangtee Empire has large vessels dedicated to the transport of prisoners, specifically non kreel and non-natives caught within the borders of their Empire who are then enslaved and shipped off to prison planets to mine. They're called slave ships by both the Empire and the rebels. | |
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An episode of Samurai Jack involved Jack and his friend Ashi exploring an alien prison spaceship that crashed on Earth. The only surviving prisoner is a weird monster named Lazarus-92, which apparently killed all the other inmates, guards, and crew members of the ship. | |
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Arrow. In the Season 2 flashbacks, a lot of the action takes place on the Amazo, a converted freighter used to hold subjects for the Mad Science experiments of Dr. Anthony Ivo. He needs a ship because he's simultaneously searching islands in the North China Sea for a lost World War 2 submarine carrying the only known pure sample of the Super Serum he's researching. After being captured on the island of Lian Yu, Oliver Queen meets his future ally Anatoli Knyazev in one of the cells. | |
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One episode of Star Trek: Enterprise had Captain Archer and Trip aboard one of these. The other criminals launched an escape and killed the guards, forcing them to make themselves useful to the criminals in order to survive. | |
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In both the original and the remake of Roots, Mandinka warrior in training Kunta Kinte is brought aboard a slave ship where he has to endure three long months inside the cargo hold during the Middle Passage. Although he starts a revolt in an attempt to kill any unnecessary crewmen, and keep the rest alive to sail them back to Africa, the uprising fails, and he and the rest of the Africans are brought to the Maryland coast, where they are bought by numerous plantation owners and Kunta ends up in John Weller's plantation. | |
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Rayman 2: The Great Escape: There's also The Buccaneer, the robot pirates' mobile headquarters and prison ship. | |
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Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando has one the Flying Lab on Planet Aranos, which later gets used as a prison ship for the heroes. | |
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Zoids: The Marvel UK version follows the story of the survivors of a human Prison Ship which crashed on what they think is an uninhabited planet but is in fact Zoidstar, former capital of the Zoidaryan Empire. | |
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The premise of Seven Days is the use of technology from the crashed Roswell UFO to develop Time Travel. In one episode, one of the inventors finally translates the markings on the ship and finds out that it is a prison transport. Unfortunately, the Grey prisoner has just escaped and is hell-bent on paying the humans back for putting him in a coma. | |
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In the Cowboy Bebop episode "Black Dog Serenade", one such ship gets hijacked by prisoners. | |
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Power Rangers/Super Sentai: In Mirai Sentai Timeranger, the villains hijack a prison ship and name themselves after it. Power Rangers Dino Charge has Sledge controlling a prison ship which carries Monsters of the Week. |
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One episode of The Mandalorian has the main character take a job with other mercenaries to free an ally from a New Republic prison transport. | |
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Doc Savage: The Fortress of Solitude opens on a Soviet prison ship transporting prisoners to The Gulag. Evil Genius Jon Sunlight orchestrates a mutiny among the prisoners and they hijack the ship. This does not go so well, as none of the prisoners kmow how to operate a ship and they wind up running aground in the Arctic circle. | |
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Power Rangers Dino Charge has Sledge controlling a prison ship which carries Monsters of the Week. | |
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The heroes of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) truly get to know one another aboard Kyln, a prison space station where they're sent after getting into trouble on Xandar. | |
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Over half of Death Troopers takes place on one, until the main characters have to run from the zombies to the larger spaceship it is docked on to. Then they encounter even more zombies. | |
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Both series of Battlestar Galactica had a prison ship among the ragtag fleet. The original series had the Prison Barge, a ship used to hold prisoners of various kinds, including prisoners of war. Baltar organizes an escape from the ship along with various characters arrested or captured in previous episodes. The re-imagined series had a prison ship called the Astral Queen which held common criminals as well as noted terrorist Tom Zarek. It was a prison transport but after the attacks the prisoners were stuck in tiny cells for months before anybody even noticed/cared. When the fleet needed laborers for dangerous duties mining water ice on a frozen moon, Zarek negotiated the partial release of the prisoners as a condition of their being used as grunt labor. The prisoners were given their former prison ship as their new home among the fleet. |
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On the Navy skill-building path at the beginning of System Shock 2, one of the missions you can select therein is the UNN Pierce, which plays this straight. According to the debriefing, said prison escort apparently had a mercenary on board, disguised as a prisoner. | |
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On Red Dwarf, the ship itself serves a secondary purpose as a prison transport ship. Apparently only a few people are aware of that floor. Unfortunately the prisoners are reconstructed along with the crew in Series 8, and the main cast wind up incarcerated with them. | |
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In The Dark Knight a ferry transporting prisoners from Gotham to the mainland is rigged to explode by the Joker, with the detonator on board another ferry full of civilians while the prison ship has the detonator for the civvies. He threatens to blow them both up if one doesn't pull the trigger before midnight. Neither of them blow up. | |
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In Freelancer, Liberty Police, Inc. have prison ships in the Texas system above Planet Houston, the LPI Huntsville and the LPI Sugarland. These are type II prison ships: while called ships in the game, they hold prisoners rather than merely transporting them, act more like space stations in function, and resemble Weighted Storage Cubes in appearance. | |
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Intergalactic: Ash is put on the prison transport Hemlock with other female prisoners. They're headed to an offworld penal colony when some of the prisoners manage to break out, hijack the ship and escape. It continues to be their means of transportation afterward. | |
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In Mirai Sentai Timeranger, the villains hijack a prison ship and name themselves after it. | |
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The Matthew Hawkwood novel Rapscallion is set, in part, on the British prison hulks being used to hold POWs during the Napoleonic Wars. | |
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Farscape: had many a episode set inside one, poignant considering Moya was one before the pilot episode. And half her crew in said pilot were escaped prisoners. | |
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A Stargate SG-1 episode centers on the team finding a crashed prison transport, unfortunately they don't figure out what it was until the prisoners trick them into helping them fight the surviving guards. | |
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An early episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender has a Fire Nation prison shipyard, a massive oil-derrick-like construction built way out in deep water. It serves as a Tailor-Made Prison for Earthbenders, as there is nothing for them to manipulate, unlike in a traditional prison where they could work with the literal ground beneath their feet. | |
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Iron Heights, a prison that traditionally holds The Flash's enemies appears in Batman: Arkham Knight, reimagined as an airship that crashes into the waters outside of Gotham and had captured Killer Croc for the purpose of experimenting on him and other inmates. | |
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Over the first few books in the X-Wing Series we hear talk of Lusankya, the Empire's secret prison and brainwashing facility, but only later is it revealed to be the Lusankya, a Super Star Destroyer. Even after the pounding it takes in The Bacta War there's enough left to salvage, and the New Republic captures and makes use of it until the New Jedi Order, where it goes out in a proper blaze of glory for Operation Emperor's Spear. | |
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Mass Effect 2 has a sequence set on the prison ship Purgatory, a privately-run jail holding the type of prisoners planetary governments don't want in their prisons. The warden also makes some extra cash by threatening to release the inmates in the systems it passes through unless the locals cough up free supplies. Real nice guys, the Blue Suns. Unfortunately for them, their leader makes the decision to try and capture Shepard* You know, the same Commander Shepard who shot their way across the galaxy, shot a Reaper in the face, was spaced and killed before burning up in orbit, woke up angry and proceeded to shoot their way out of the lab they woke up in, and were in the process of shooting their way across the Terminus systems to the Collectors and hold them for ransom... which results in Shepard shooting their way to the prison ship's resident Tyke Bomb... which results in said Tyke Bomb being release from cryo and going on a Biotics-and-rage-fueled rampage through the ship that ultimately ends with said prison ship being destroyed. | |
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In Phantasy Star Online, an incarnation of Dark Force Faiz was locked away in a giant Prison Ship in the center of Ragol. | |
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Batman: In Gotham, Blackgate Prison (located on an island in the harbour) has used a modified barge as overflow housing for less dangerous prisoners. Cluemaster once planned a mass breakout that involved cutting the barge loose and having it picked up by modern-day pirate Cap'n Fear. | |
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In FTL: Faster Than Light, you can come across a slaver ship whose crew will either gladly sell you one of their slaves or attack you if you don't hand them over one of your crewmembers. Put enough dents in their hull and they may decide to give you a slave for free insteadnote Accepting gets you a slave that ultimately has freedom, but the slavers get to continue being slavers. Refusing forces you to blow up their ship, stopping their slaver ways, but killing all their slaves too. Make your choice. Smugglers hiding in Space Clouds and the Rebel transport ships may also turn out to be a prisoner transport, as do several other ships if you kill their crew without destroying the hull. | |
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Traveller Adventure 1 The Kinunir. The Kinunir class starship Gaesh was converted into a Prison Ship and used to hold Imperial political prisoners. | |
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The airplane in Con Air is a prison transport. | |
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Starcraft II has you mount a raid on one to rescue Raynor. To highlight Mengsk's asshattery, he orders the ship to selfdestruct with Kerrigan on it... without informing the ship's crew. | |
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Red vs. Blue: In the season 13 premiere, Locus and his partner Felix hijack a UNSC prison ship to recruit followers. | |
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In Man of Steel, General Zod and co. are stored in a prison ship in another dimension. | |
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The Escapists 2: Air Force Con is an enormous Boeing jet that serves as a prison meant for only one person - you.note The escape sequence reveals it's going to Fort Tundra. The HMS Orca is an enormous ocean-going ship with prison cells. You aren't allowed anywhere outside. If you go outside, the guards will beat you to unconsciousness. The USS Anomaly is a space station which serves as a prison. |
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An alternate Cave Johnson in the Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative is captain of one of these. | |
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In X-Men: The Last Stand, the government imprisons Mystique in a special mobile prison built on a semi-trailer that is constantly moving; thereby making it harder for the Brotherhood to locate her and stage a rescue. | |
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The X-Men: The Animated Series featured a two-part episode with a "Spirit-drinker" that Lady Deathstrike accidentally released from an alien Prison Ship. | |
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has you starting off in one. | |
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Lost in Space episode "Condemned of Space". The Robinsons encounter a computer-controlled prison ship with criminals kept in Harmless Freezing cryogenic suspension. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "The Inmates of Summer," SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally board a prison ship and believe it to be a summer camp. To lift the other prisoners' morale, SpongeBob writes a musical play for them to perform for "amusement and inspiration." | |
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Warhammer 40,000's Imperium of Man has the dreaded Black Ships, each ferrying tens of thousands of psykers conscripted as per government policy. They're all taken to Holy Terra for processing, with the strong being "sanctioned" to serve as communicators or warriors, and the rest fed to a giant psychic navigational beacon. | |
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The Tomb in Escape Plan turns out to be an anchored tanker off the coast of Morocco. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Doomsday", the Doctor discovers that the Genesis Ark was a prison ship built by the Time Lords during the Last Great Time War. Being of Time Lord origin, it's Bigger on the Inside and contains a small army of Daleks. | |
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The original cast of Blake's 7 (with one exception, introduced later) were all prisoners on a spaceship transporting them to a penal planet. | |
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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: During the "Catastrophe Con" arc, Aphra is imprisoned by the Imperials on Accresker Prison, which is a unique spin on this trope. It's actually the hulks of several ships magnetically strapped together and tugged around by a Star Destroyer, whose prisoners are press-ganged to act as expendable boarding parties whenever the Imperials raid a new ship. The prisoners aren't even restrained or placed into cells, since escape is impossible — the ship pulling it is connected only through long cables, none of the component ships has so much as anything useful for building a functioning vessel left in it, and the prison never even approaches planets. | |
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Von Ryan's Express is set on a train being used to transport allied POWs from Italy to Germany. The prisoners escape and hijack the train. | |
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The original series had the Prison Barge, a ship used to hold prisoners of various kinds, including prisoners of war. Baltar organizes an escape from the ship along with various characters arrested or captured in previous episodes. | |
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The re-imagined series had a prison ship called the Astral Queen which held common criminals as well as noted terrorist Tom Zarek. It was a prison transport but after the attacks the prisoners were stuck in tiny cells for months before anybody even noticed/cared. When the fleet needed laborers for dangerous duties mining water ice on a frozen moon, Zarek negotiated the partial release of the prisoners as a condition of their being used as grunt labor. The prisoners were given their former prison ship as their new home among the fleet. | |
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The eponymous Amistad is a slaver ship. | |
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Ratchet & Clank (2010): Ratchet gets sent to one of these in Issue #2 "Friends with Benefits" after being captured by Artemis Zogg. | |
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The Dred Chronicles are set on a prison ship called Perdition, in permanent orbit in an isolated system. It's where the Conglomerate dump people who they judge beyond any attempt at rehabilitation, and it's largely lawless — there are no cells and no human guards. There are deadly robotic sentries which keep prisoners from getting too close to anything deemed too sensitive, but they don't interfere in gang warfare or non-lethal degradation of conditions. | |
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The 90s action game, Skeleton Krew for the Amiga is set in one of these, where a viral outbreak turns every prisoner onboard into savage, bloodthirsty mutants. You assume one of three commandos assigned to investigate the outbreak and find out an Evilutionary Biologist is behind the incident. | |
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Unreal has you start out on a crashed prison transport named the "Vortex Rikers". | |
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Star Wars Legends: In Dark Empire, Luke ends up imprisoned in a "dungeon ship" especially designed to hold Jedi. | |
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The Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" concerns a prison ship to Australia. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. In "Repentence", Voyager is briefly converted into a prison ship when they rescue the crew and inmates of another prison ship conveying the inmates to their execution. This leads to the inevitable Anvilicious Debate Of The Week on the ethics of capital punishment and racial profiling, and the equally inevitable Crisis of the Week when the Force Field Doors fail when the power goes out during a prison breakout. | |
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In Kur of Gor Tarl finds himself on a prison planet, an artificial satellite of Gor dubbed the "Prison Moon" by the inhabitants of Gor even though they don't know that it's a prison. He is the only prisoner in the entire place at the start of the book. | |
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Fortress 2: Re-Entry: The new prison is revealed to be a satellite orbiting the Earth. | |
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