Prison

Prisons and jails are a big part of The Elder Scrolls games. They have been included in Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. When you commit crimes you are sent to jail to pay for your crimes.

Prisons in Oblivion
When you first start the game in Oblivion you are a prisoner in the Imperial Prison which is the biggest prison in Oblivion.

There are prisons in every major city. There you can visit the prison or be sent if you commit a crime. If you are caught in the wild, you are sent to the nearest towns prison. When being sent to prison you can keep a lock pick to try and break out of prison. When breaking out of prison, you can find everything you own in a chest nearby. If you do not escape prison, but instead serve your sentence, all stolen items can be found in the same chest. Also, if you serve your sentence, your level in some skills, such as Armorer or Marksman may decrease and, at rare times, Security or Sneak will increase.

In a Dark Brotherhood quest you are sent to the Imperial Prison to kill an inmate.

Prison in Skyrim
thumb|300px|right It has been announced that you will start in prison at the start of the game. In a video Todd Howard announced that there will be different types of prisons. Evidently, in the start of the game you are in prison because you are about to be executed.

You can now escape a prison in more than one way.

When you are put in prison after commiting a crime you don’t suffer a skill decrease, but instead your progress towards the next skill level in several skills is reset to zero.