Iron Heights

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Iron Heights is a fictional maximum-security prison which houses the many Flash rogues and metahuman criminals of Keystone City and Central City when they end up captured. Iron Heights first appeared in Flash: Iron Heights (2001).

Located about three miles north of Keystone City, Iron Heights is known for its vicious treatment of its prisoners. Under the ruthless authority of the current warden Gregory Wolfe, a former prosecutor of St. Louis, Iron Heights has become a living "hellhole" to those in the prison. Having a personal hatred for the "supervillains", he instituted a lockdown system in the building, guards were ordered to shoot any prisoner on sight if they were trying to escape or caught outside the prison, and the prisoners were beaten on a daily basis. He also has the metahuman ability to tense up muscles, which he uses on the prisoners, guards, and even the Flash.

The metahuman and supervillain prisoners are jailed in an area known as the Pipeline. The Pipeline was the dark, dank basement of Iron Heights where the prisoners were treated under awful living conditions with little food or water. The prisoners are kept in their costumes so the guards can identify and shoot them.

Despite these harsh conditions and the ruthless warden, breakouts have occurred in Iron Heights. A riot occurred when a virus was released in the prison by Murmur, with Blacksmith help. The virus outbreak ended up killing guards and prisoners and Murmur and prisoners of the Pipeline (Weather Wizard and Girder) escaped. Gorilla Grodd also escaped when he controlled gorillas to break him loose from his confinement.