Military prison

There are two types: penal and confinement-oriented, where captured enemy combatants are confined for military reasons until hostilities cease [citation needed].

Canadian Forces personnel who are convicted by military courts and receive a sentence of 14 days or more are incarcerated at CFSPDB.

The facility is maintained and controlled by the British Army's Military Provost Staff (Adjutant General's Corps).

More serious offenders with longer sentences are transferred to HM Prison Service as part of their dishonourable discharge.

The United States military's equivalent to the county jail, in the sense of "holding area" or "place of brief incarceration for petty crimes" is known colloquially as the guardhouse or stockade by the United States Army and Air Force and brig by naval and marine forces.

Members of the U.S. Armed Forces are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and are convicted to confinement via courts-martial.

In the United States, differential treatment seems to be suggested, but by no means mandated, by the Founding Fathers in the Fifth Amendment to its constitution.

[9] Men sentenced to more than 10 years, are confined at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, located on Fort Leavenworth, KS.

This tier system based on sentence length differs from typical American prisons which are characterized by their level of security.

Prisoners are often kept in ad hoc camps near the battlefield, guarded by military police until they can be transferred to more permanent barracks for the duration of the conflict.

In the 19th century, written accounts of the barbaric treatment accorded prisoners on both sides during the Napoleonic and Crimean wars helped lead to the founding of the Red Cross and the promulgation of the Geneva Conventions.

The Hill (1965) was set in a British military penal camp in North Africa during World War II.

Some of the late-20th-century military novels of American writer W. E. B. Griffin make mention of the former Portsmouth Naval Prison facility.