1. sections of a prison containing individual cells for inmates

Examples

• The maximum security cellblocks housed the most dangerous criminals.
• Guards patrolled the cellblocks every hour during the night shift.
• The new prison was designed with four separate cellblocks.
• Inmates were confined to their cellblocks during the lockdown.
• The riot began in one of the overcrowded cellblocks.
• Each of the prison’s cellblocks contained fifty individual cells.