C-Dawg’s Top Ten Fictional Prisons
#10 Cold Mountain Penitentiary (The Green Mile)
#9 Fox River State Penitentiary (Prison Break)
#8 Glades Correctional Institution (Out of Sight)
#7 Citrus State Prison (The Longest Yard)
#6 Rossmore State Penitentiary (Let’s Go To Prison)
#5 Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility (Bad Boys – 1983)
#4 Road Prison 36 (Cool Hand Luke)
#3 Oswald State Correctional Facility (Oz)
#2 Glenboro State Prison (Stir Crazy)
#1 Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption)
Honorable Mention: Azkaban Prison (Harry Potter), The Charles Montgomery Burns State Penitentiary (The Simpsons), Clever Prison (Idiocracy), The Tweedy’s Chicken Farm (Chicken Run), Gateway Prison (Lock Up), Quahog Women’s State Penitentiary (Family Guy), “Tango & Cash Prison” (Tango & Cash), CryoPrison (Demolition Man), “American History X Prison” (American History X), Cell Block 4 (CB4)
There is an actual Rossmore State Prison. Although it is closed down, it is in the town of Joliet, Illinois, and was the prison that Jake Blues walked out the gate of in “The Blues Brothers”.