Iron Heights Prison

"Iron Heights is better at keeping secrets than it is at keeping prisoners."

- Felicity Smoak

Iron Heights Penitentiary, commonly known as Iron Heights Prison, is a detention facility located near Keystone City. Visiting hours for the prison are between 1:30 pm and 3:45 pm on weekdays.

History
Sometime after March 18, 2000, Henry Allen was incarcerated in Iron Heights after being wrongfully convicted for the murder of his wife, Nora Allen. He was regularly visited by his son, Barry Allen, many times while serving his sentence.

Oliver Queen and Laurel Lance both visited Iron Heights for an eighth grade field trip.

In late 2012, Peter Declan was held in the prison, though he was later set free when he was acquitted of the charges placed on him.

Later that same year, Oliver was held in the penitentiary after being accused of being the vigilante, The Hood, and he subsequently took a polygraph test in an attempt to prove his innocence. He was later set free when John Diggle masqueraded as The Hood while Oliver held a party at the Queen Mansion.

In early 2013, Cyrus Vanch was formally released from Iron Heights Prison and was picked up by his girlfriend, Vivian.

Moira Queen was held here when she was charged with committing mass murder for her involvement in the Undertaking.

Many inmates including the Dollmaker and the Count escaped from Iron Heights due to the damage the damage done to the prison during the Undertaking.

After the singularity over Central City was closed by the Flash and Firestorm in mid-2015, Iron Heights opened a separate wing which could hold incarcerated meta-humans.

In late 2015, Henry Allen was released from Iron Heights after Barry received a recording of Dr. "Harrison Wells" confessing to murdering Nora.

In 2016, Damien Darhk was held in Iron Heights, until with the help of Malcolm Merlyn and Andy Diggle escaped along with many other inmates, including Michael Amar, Danny Brickwell, Noah Kuttler and Cooper Seldon. During the chaos, Damien ended up killing Laurel Lance, aka "Black Canary".

After Barry and Cisco beat the Rival, he was taken to Iron Heights and put in a cell in the meta-human wing. That night, Alchemy scolded him for his failure, and then Savitar entered the cell and killed him.

In late 2017, Ramsey Deacon, Becky Sharpe and Mina Chaytan were all incarcerated in the meta-human wing.

In early 2018, a prison breakout was attempted by Barry Allen, Becky Sharpe, Ramsey Deacon, Mina Chaytan and Sylbert Rundine. During the escape attempt Clifford DeVoe arrived and killed Warden Wolfe. He then stole the powers of the escaping bus metas and took over the body of Becky, DeVoe then escaped.

In late 2018, Peter Merkel was sent to Iron Heights' meta-human wing, where he spoke with Mark Mardon/Weather Wizard about a break out.

Possible future
In the future that Nora comes from, at some point in or before 2034, Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash became incarcerated in Iron Heights' meta-human wing, and is still serving time there in 2049.

Erased future
In the future that Barry traveled to in order to learn Savitar's identity, Caitlin (who refused to be called anything except "Killer Frost") was locked in the meta-human wing of Iron Heights, with Julian looking after her. However, since Iris's murder at Savitar's hand was prevented and Caitlin managed to regain control of her powers during the final battle against Savitar, this future presumably no longer comes to pass.

Current employees

 * Del Toro (warden)
 * Unnamed (guards)

Former employees

 * Gregory Wolfe (warden; deceased)
 * Unnamed (guards; deceased)

Current inmates

 * Claire Abbott
 * Cameron Abrams
 * "Ace"
 * Acolyte
 * Onyx Adams
 * Aglin
 * Michael Amar/Murmur
 * Ankov
 * Baker
 * Anthony Bellows
 * Lyle Bolton
 * Jason Brodeur
 * Laura Buser/Bonesy
 * Frank Cassaday/The Mirror
 * Certo
 * Zoey Clark/Prank
 * Colton
 * Lucious Coolidge/Heat Monger
 * Jon Cortez
 * Craig
 * Crosby
 * Veronica Dale
 * Jeff Deveau
 * Eric Dunn/Lead Skull
 * James Edlund
 * Sergio Espinoza
 * Alex Faust
 * Eric Frye
 * Max Fuller
 * Joe Gravano
 * Sam Hackett
 * "Hardhat"
 * David Hersch
 * Randall Hode
 * Jim Huffman
 * "Jackhammer"
 * John James
 * Jones
 * Julius
 * "King"
 * Nicholas Kotero
 * Bartek Kuranski
 * Kyle
 * Simon Lacroix/Komodo
 * Brie Larvan
 * Lonnie Machin/Anarky
 * Remi Maybelle
 * Kevin Meltzer/Chimera
 * James Midas
 * Bruno Moretti
 * Jared Morillo/Plunder
 * Mugger
 * Calvin Nico
 * Winnick Norton/The Dodger
 * Scott Notting
 * Greg Osborne
 * P. Parks
 * Warren Patel
 * "Queen"
 * Kyle Reston/Ace
 * Mrs. Reston/Queen
 * Teddy Reston/Jack
 * Rosie
 * "Skull B"
 * Martin Somers
 * Clay Stanley
 * Jason Stent
 * Marcus Stockheimer
 * Thief
 * Parker Thompson
 * Andrew Thornton
 * William Tockman/Clock King
 * Hoshaw Tolibao/Brother Hoshaw
 * Cyrus Vanch
 * Anthony Venza
 * Vivian
 * Axel Walker/The Trickster
 * Liza Warner
 * Spencer Young
 * Werner Zytle/Vertigo
 * Electric Gang
 * Most of the Cult of Savitar
 * Most of Slade Wilson's army

Meta-human wing

 * Jaco Birch/The Hotness
 * Rosa Dillon/Top
 * Adam Fells/Geomancer
 * "Goldface"
 * Mark Mardon/Weather Wizard
 * Peter Merkel/Rag Doll
 * Joseph Monteleone/Tar Pit
 * Sam Scudder/Mirror Master
 * "Shade"
 * Jeremy Tell/Double Down
 * Clive Yorkin
 * Most of Zoom's meta-human group

Former inmates

 * Cecil Adams/Count Vertigo (escaped; deceased)
 * Barry Allen (released)
 * Henry Allen (released; deceased)
 * Shawna Baez/Peek-a-Boo (meta-human wing; released)
 * Kirby Bates (released; deceased)
 * Frank Bertinelli  (released; deceased)
 * Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress (escaped)
 * Danny Brickwell/Brick (transferred to Slabside Maximum Security Prison; deceased)
 * Mina Chaytan/Black Bison (meta-human wing; deceased)
 * Edward Clariss/The Rival (meta-human wing; deceased)
 * Carrie Cutter/Cupid (recruited by A.R.G.U.S.)
 * Damien Darhk (escaped; deceased)
 * Ramsey Deacon/Kilg%re (meta-human wing; deceased)
 * Peter Declan (released; exonerated)
 * John Diggle (released)
 * Roy Harper (escaped; faked his death)
 * Joslyn Jackam/Weather Witch (escaped)
 * Vanessa Jansen* (deceased)
 * James Jesse/The Trickster (escaped)
 * Noah Kuttler/The Calculator (escaped)
 * Quentin Lance (released; deceased)
 * Brie Larvan/Bug-Eyed Bandit (released; hacked into the courts' computer system for an early release; comatose)
 * Barton Mathis/The Dollmaker (escaped; deceased)
 * Chien Na Wei/China White (recruited by A.R.G.U.S.)
 * Kyle Nimbus (escaped; legally deceased after failed execution)
 * Clay Parker (escaped)
 * Janet Petty (released; deceased)
 * Moira Queen (released; deceased)
 * Oliver Queen (released)
 * David Ratchet (escaped with Barry Allen's aid)
 * "Ripped" (escaped; decased)
 * Sylbert Rundine/Dwarfstar (meta-human wing; deceased)
 * Derek Sampson (meta-human wing; transferred to Slabside Maximum Security Prison; deceased)
 * Mark Scheffer/Shrapnel (recruited by A.R.G.U.S.; deceased)
 * Cooper Seldon (escaped; deceased)
 * Becky Sharpe/Hazard (meta-human wing; deceased)
 * Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (escaped; deceased)
 * Lewis Snart (escaped; deceased)
 * Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger (recruited by A.R.G.U.S.; currently incarcerated in Slabside Maximum Security Prison)
 * Bo Travis (deceased)

Alternate future inmates

 * Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost (meta-human wing)

Possible future inmates
Notes:
 * Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash (meta-human wing)
 * 1) It's currently unknown how or when Vanessa Jansen gained her powers; for that reason, it's unclear whether or not she was held in the meta-human wing of Iron Heights. It's also unconfirmed whether she escaped or was released.

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Trivia

 * Iron Heights Prison is designed to hold the most dangerous criminals from Star City, Central City and Keystone City.
 * The prison is effectively a revolving door for up super criminals. (Capturing and imprisoning them is basically a waste of time as they ALWAYS escape.)
 * According to Cisco Ramon, there is no prison that can hold Barry Allen, this implies that Iron Heights Prison's power-dampening tech has no effect on Barry's powers; due to him spending six months inside the Speed Force.
 * Although he stated this while Barry was in with the "regular population" until he unknowingly outed himself to the Warden who then place Barry with the rest of the meta-humans and was effected by the meta-dampeners in that section of the prison just like the rest of them.
 * An unspecified number of meta-human prisoners were sold to Amunet Black by Wolfe prior to the failed sale which led to his death; it appears that Wolfe only tried to sell Barry and the four bus metas who'd been incarcerated in the prison, rather than all the meta-humans held there, even though the official synopsis of ​ indicated that he had intended to sell all of them.
 * Since the entire deal ended up getting called off by DeVoe absorbing the powers of the bus metas present and killing warden Wolfe, it's possible that Amunet did intend to buy all the meta-humans in the prison, but simply never got the chance due to the way things worked out.

Behind the scenes

 * In the DC comics, when the Flash's enemies are arrested, they are frequently placed in Iron Heights Penitentiary.