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The phrase "a prison of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe a situation or state of being that feels confining or restrictive.
Example: "She felt trapped in a prison of her own making, unable to escape her fears and doubts."
Alternatives: "a cage of" or "a trap of".
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For others, that version of freedom is a prison of isolation and back-breaking work.
While U.S. officials continue to see this patch of scrub encircled by brilliant blue water as the perfect place to hold prisoners in a war seemingly without end, the facility has evolved into a prison of sorts for the administration.
"You're in a prison of sensory impressions.
For many, the exchange is invigorating, but for others Europe becomes a prison of alienation.
But in some respects, the Countess's Bastille — a prison of codified behavior — never fell.
Office swagger, he says, traps workers in a prison of increasingly archaic expectations.
Yet in rejecting it, he created a prison of his own.
All gardeners are in a prison of sorts during the winter.
For them, Norilsk has become a prison of another kind and another era.
In a prison, of course, the boss is the superintendent or warden.
This violence has made postwar Iraq a prison of fear for women.
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