Fox River Prison is a fictitious name. The series was filmed at an old prison in Joliet Illinois.
HM Prison Morwell River ended in 1997.
HM Prison Morwell River was created in 1964.
First Prison - Fox River Second Prison - Sona
Season 1 was Fox River Penitentiary at Joliet, IL and Season 3 was Sona Federal Penitentiary at Panama City.
Fox River Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois
94941 as given to Bellick in the pilot episode of "Prison Break" as Michael is processed for entry into Fox River prison.
Fox River
SING SING The prison scene was shot at Sing Sing prison in Ossining NY (on the Hudson river, about 30 miles north of New York City.)
Michael, Lincoln and 6 other men escape from FOX RIVER. They are named as the Fox River 8.
'Up the river' may have originated in New York city. When criminals were sentenced to prison, they went up the [Hudson] river to Sing Sing, the state prison in Ossining, NY.
Not intentionally, and it is not actually a prison, but the lower levels of Rikers Island (the primary jail of NYC) do flood when the East River rises.
Actor and musician Jared Leto claims to have spent some time in prison, but he never states why he was in prison. In a later interview, he states that the late actor River Phoenix once told him to lie in interviews to be more interesting when he was confronted about the prison incident.