Belle Reve Penitentiary

Belle Reve Penitentiary is a penal institution located in Belle Reve Parish. It is designed to hold the world's worst supervillains and metahumans.

All inmates are required to wear inhibitor collars, with each one designed to restrain the wearer's specific meta-ability. The walls are strong enough to withstand even Superman.

Present
On July 4, four ice villains (Mister Freeze, Icicle Jr., Killer Frost and Captain Cold) staged simultaneous attacks around the country. Frost and Cold were sent to Belle Reve, Mr. Freeze was sent to Arkham Asylum and Icicle Jr. was sent to a young offenders institution. However, Freeze petitioned to be ruled legally sane and Icicle Jr. sued to be tried as an adult, and both were subsequently transferred to Belle Reve on September 16. As a result, the Justice League sent Superboy and Miss Martian into Belle Reve undercover, posing as Tommy and Tuppence Terror, to find out what they were planning.

They discovered that the ice villains were working for Icicle Sr., and that their presence in Belle Reve was part of a plan to break out every convict in the prison. The ice villains would freeze the reinforced walls so that super strong inmates could smash them down. The breakout was thwarted by Superboy and Miss Martian, and all of the convicts were recaptured with the exception of the Riddler, who managed to escape in the confusion. The warden, Amanda Waller, was fired and replaced as warden by the former prison psychiatrist, Hugo Strange. It was subsequently revealed that the entire breakout had been a plot by Hugo Strange and Icicle Sr. to get Strange into the warden's office, on behalf of the Light.

Staff

 * Amanda Waller (former warden)
 * Hugo Strange (warden, former psychiatrist)

Guards

 * Biggitz
 * Banks
 * Cooper
 * Hart
 * Hauser
 * Ripley
 * Riker
 * Wilcox (main guard)

Known inmates

 * Abra Kadabra
 * Atomic Skull
 * Black Adam
 * Blockbuster
 * Brick
 * Captain Cold
 * Count Vertigo
 * Devastation
 * Hook
 * Icicle Jr.
 * Icicle Sr. ("Capo")
 * Killer Frost
 * Mammoth
 * Miss Martian (undercover)
 * Mister Freeze
 * Poison Ivy
 * Professor Ojo
 * Professor Ivo
 * Riddler (escaped)
 * Shimmer
 * Superboy (undercover)
 * Terror Twins
 * Ultra-Humanite

Background in other media

 * In the comics Belle Reve is still a metahuman prison, and is mainly the headquarters for the Suicide Squad.
 * This is the third adaption of Belle Reve Penitentiary. In Justice League Unlimited it again functioned as recruiting grounds for the Suicide Squad (renamed Task Force X). In Smallville Belle Reve is an asylum and was the main prison for Clark's enemies, much as Arkham Asylum was to Batman.
 * The original Belle Reve in media was as the name of the fictional Dubois family's plantation in A Streetcar Named Desire.