prisonousadj.

1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. vi. 47 His son began..to be of the prison prisonous and of the street streety.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xvii. 133 Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams..had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner.

1888 J. Ashby-Sterry in Eng. Illustr. Mag. 109 Horsemonger Lane Gaol..has an impressive façade..distinctly prisonous in every line and ornamentation.

1914 G. M. A. Ives Hist. Penal Methods i. 10 The king's strong places or the larger monasteries would be prisonous enough with little alteration.

1998 R. Allen Moving Pageant iv. lxii. 167 The oppressively prisonous city and the apparently irremediable condition of its poor inhabitants cast a pall over the somewhat misleadingly titled second part of the autobiography.