The Place of the Prison in the Bible

‘What does the Bible say about prisons?’, appears, at first glance, to be a question that, we could only charitably grant, has a relatively niche interest. It would be an understandable response to assume that this question only has relevance for the diminishing numbers of people who read these texts devotionally, and even then, it is hardly a central hermeneutical lens through which to consider their tradition.