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Ankh-Morpork's main prison. This is the principal State facility, and as such is suppplemental to the Watch cells, and any local brigs or bridewells the various Guilds may maintain as a disciplinary measure (or in the normal run of commercial transaction, in the case of the Seamstresses).

The Tanty is fairly humanely run, and the stirabout has got named meat in it (at least once a day). In fact, run to humane liberal principles, it offers a better standard of living than most criminals would be assured of on the outside (what with fairly clean straw to sleep on, three stirabout meals a day, at least one with named meat, and dry cells into the bargain) ...

Knowing this and keen not to provoke an unseemly queue for admission, the Patrician sees to it that stays in the Tanty are fairly short and usually end quite conclusively. With a suspended sentence, one might say....

The prison gave its name to the penny dreadful crime reportage paper, the Tanty Bugle. "Gave" is probably the key word, as it is unlikely the paper pays royalties for use of the name....

The Staff:

• Mr. Bellyster, a nasty warder;
• Mr. Wilkinson, a more pleasant warder;
• Ron, who works with Mr Wilkinson
• The Warden - un-named, but evidently the Governor, answerable to Vetinari for his management of the prison;
• Mr Daniel "One Drop" Trooper, the Civic Hangman.