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== Web Original ==
* In the ''[[SCP Foundation]]'', a lot of SCPs are contained this way, often because the only way to keep them contained is to make them not want to leave. Some well
** SCP-082 (aka Fernand the Cannibal) [[Napoleon Delusion|
** SCP-053 (“the Small Girl”) is a child suffering a curse that makes her [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|
** The Foundation is more cautious with SCP-166 (the “Teen Succubus”), but she is still given a suite with comfortable furnishings and provided with any requests she makes, within reason (such as a Bible, other books, rosary beads, and occasional use of a telephone to call the nuns at the convent who raised her as a child). She’s even allowed a furlough every month, although where she goes is marked [DATA EXPUNGED]. So long as only female researchers and doctors interact with her, there is little risk.
** With SCP-343, Foundation members are told to pretty much give him whatever he wants. He claims to be God (whether true or not is debatable, but he clearly has god-like powers), and [[Self-Restraint|
== Western Animation ==
* In ''Megamind'', the main villain is in prison so often that he has turned his prison cell into this, complete with pictures, painting on the walls, sinister chair, TV and so forth.
** He ''grew up'' in that prison. First he just landed there, but then the fucked-up logic of the setting meant that as a three-year-old participating in a prison break, he was sentenced to jail time instead of being put into the foster care system.
* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''
** Taurus Bulba in the pilot episode; he connives behind the guards' backs instead of bribing them. He takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]]. His cell is capable of transforming into an executive office, complete with secretary and outside phone line. Then later on you find out he's turned the entire prison into his own flying fortress.
** Also done in one episode where Darkwing spies on a villain in a minimum security prison. There's literally no fences or walls, only a loudspeaker thanking the prisoners for not leaving.
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* John Corben, before he becomes Metallo, in the [[Diniverse|DCAU]] ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman]]'' animated series. He has what he has because he didn't rat out Lex Luthor in the first episode, and Luthor makes sure he's well taken care of... so to speak.
** When Superman needed the Parasite's help to find a bomb, the Parasite was offered a tv inside his cell in exchange for his cooperation.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer, as a prison snitch, gets things like a plasma TV, a "Snitch Life" bling chain, and even a Segway from his "Mother".
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** In another episode, when Kirk Van Houten was arrested, Chief Wiggum told him the cell he's going to wouldn't be so cold and damp as Van Houten's apartment. In fact, a normal prison cell felt like the trope for him.
* In ''[[Home Movies]]'', Brendon's class is taken on a field trip to a prison as part of a [[Scare'Em Straight]] program. However, they took them to a white collar prison, which the kids considered akin to this trope. Coach McGuirk even remarked that the cells were better than his apartment.
* ''[[Gargoyles
* The above quote is from
{{quote|'''Bonaparte Beagle:''' Oh, guard! Go pack our bags and tell the warden we've escaped for a week or so.}}
* In one episode of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', his Dad wouldn't hire cable tv, which prompted Dex into building a satellite that (illegally) brought extra channels. When the authorities learned about the fact, they blamed and arrested Dad. When Dexter's Mom went to the Precinct where Dad was taken to, she was told he could have left hours ago. Dad was then shown enjoying his cell's tv.
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** When Superman needed the Parasite's help to find a bomb, the Parasite was offered a TV inside his cell (with cable, including the premium channels) in exchange for his cooperation.
** In the episode "Where There's Smoke", Volcana was spared a regular prison and instead isolated on an island, where Superman brought her supplies (this was both for extenuating circumstances and for the protection of other inmates, given her powers); it seemed a tropical paradise, so long as she stayed put, but she clearly did not. She was later seen fighting Supergirl, and later sent to a high-security section of Stryker's Island Penitentiary.
** The Ultrahumanite has one of these in ''[[Justice League]]'', albeit
== Real Life ==
* Surprisingly enough, Adolf Hitler. After the Beer Hall Putsch he was tried for high treason and sentenced to five years in Festungshaft (literally "fortress confinement"). Festungshaft was a type of jail that excluded forced labor, featured reasonably comfortable cells, and allowed the prisoner to receive visitors almost daily for many hours. It was the customary sentence for people whom the judge believed to have had honourable, but misguided motives. While in prison, he dictated most of the first volume of ''[[Mein Kampf]]''.
* Sharashka's, special prisons in the Soviet Union's Gulag System. As seen in [[The First Circle]] they were used to coerce political prisoners with useful scientific and engineering skills. Do well enough and you'll get released. Do bad, and you get kicked down back to the normal prisons.
* A fair number of nobles ended up imprisoned like this. In the Middle Ages, the noble may be related to his captor, and nobles were held prisoner primarily to obtain a ransom. Besides, you never knew if your prisoner would one day be holding you hostage. Better to treat him well and hope he'd return the favor in the future.
* In [[Real Life]] most countries operated this as policy (i.e. you had to pay for most things and the more you paid the more you could get) up until round about the 1700 to 1800 period.
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* Although to a lesser extent than the Pablo Escobar example, Al Capone's cell during his eight-month stay at Eastern State Penitentiary was noted by the gangster as being "very comfortable." It included Oriental rugs, fine art, and a state of the art radio receiver. He couldn't keep it up in the federal prison system after his tax evasion conviction, however.
* In his memoir ''Wiseguy'' (which was adapted into the film ''[[Goodfellas]]''), Henry Hill goes into detail about the time he served at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, which was nicknamed "Mafia Manor." How comfy was it? Mobsters got their own special dorm, which was described as looking like a Holiday Inn. Mobsters were allowed to cook their own meals made from gourmet foods smuggled in ''by the guards''. Mobsters didn't have to work if they didn't want to; if they did (for the pay), they could get someone else to do it. And mobsters could use the phone whenever they wanted, and one mobster stored the drugs he was selling ''in the chaplain's safe''. The place was so nice, you couldn't even get in unless you greased the palm of the bureaucrat in charge.
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* Al Capone, finally convicted on tax related charges, began his sentence in a prison where his money and fame brought him all the finer things in life, including the ability to leave if he wanted to. Unfortunately for Al, it all came crashing down when the guards told a visiting official that he was out, but was supposed to return later. Then he was transferred to Alcatraz, had the crap beat out of him by inmates, and eventually lost his mind to dementia caused by syphillis. Which then killed him when he got out. So... [[Broken Aesop|crime doesn't pay if you have an undiagnosed case of syphillis]]
* When she was imprisoned for tax evasion, "Queen of Mean" Leona Helmsley hired and bullied fellow inmates into waiting on her hand and foot, just like when she ran her hotels. One even served as her personal secretary.
* Despite
* Brazilian former Judge Nicolau dos Santos Neto, who was arrested and convicted for embezzling funds from the building of a courtroom, is occasionally transferred from prison to house arrest on the pretence of treating a depression case.
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