Prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Film setting: This category is for films whose story, action, and/or other environment takes place at least part in prison. Filming location: If the place where some or all of the film is produced is in a prison, use the city, county, state, or other geographical location of the prison. Film genre: For those films whose narrative elements primarily are constructed from prison elements, use Category:Prison films.