Do we already know what each of the prisons will be like? if so can someone give me a link? if not what would you like to see in a prison? I would like a prison where if you have over X amount of bounty the guards throw you in a pit to fight to the death or serious injury, which would also have unique weapons; stick, rock, decaying wood. and if you like use magic they abuse you even more. i think that would be fun.

Since the College of Winterhold is in Winterhold, and Winterhold is with the Rebels, the non-Rebel main town should have really anti-magic prisons, imo

What are you some kind of masochist? (<—I'm joking) I think they might make the prisons the same. Just as long is that the large cities have more guards, harder locks, more people in prison, much bigger prison, and more cells. Smaller towns should have less of all of those and slightly easier locks.

no they said each prison id diff. i doubt they would say that if it was just a lock thing. like at the start you are being lead to your execution so maybe a town wil kill you if you murder some1.

i remember todd saying in an interview that there are different types of prisons, and then looking like "damn i wasn't supposed to say that"

It'd be fun if they had one where you were just in a cage dangling over water, or a Ministry of Truth style building suspended from a cliff.

Different prisons might just mean there are more prisons than just one and that they are different buildings in different locations. I wouldn't hold my breath for anything more than that.

In Oblivion they had some cool prisons, like Bruma where you get a quest from a cell mate and Skingrad where you can escape through a trap door. I would expect at least a step up or two from that.

This.

Game of thrones anyone?

Extremely high mountain with a three walled cell and the back of the cell opened onto a 1000ft drop

Hey, Skyrim is like siberia.I could get put into a soviet style work camp and serve my time enemy of the state style.

I suspect the "2 different types of jails" that Todd mentioned might be a normal jail for regular crimes and a second type of prison for treasonous crimes against the Empire.

Or perhaps the second type of detainment is for prisoners of war on the field of battle. Would be nice if the civil war involves huge battles.