What is "doing time"

vb. (present participle of do time English)

Doing time is slang for spending time in a jail or prison.

It may also refer to:

• Doing Time, the US title of Porridge (film), a 1979 film version of the BBC sitcom
• "Doing Time", a single from the MxPx album Life in General (1996)
• Doing Time (2002 film), also Keimusho no Naka, a 2002 Japanese live-action film
• "Doing Time", an episode from the third season of SpongeBob SquarePants
• Doing Time, Doing Vipassana about the use of Vipassana meditation as a rehabilitation method in Tihar Jail, Delhi
• Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House, a 1991 documentary film
• " Doing Time with Ron Kuby", an American talk radio show syndicated by Air America Media.
• "Doing Time", a graphic novel from Back Row Comics.
• We're All Doing Time, a book by Bo Lozoff of the Prison-Ashram Project

is a 2002 film directed by Korean-Japanese film director Yōichi Sai. Based on Kazuichi Hanawa's manga, it follows the day-to-day routine of a middle-aged inmate at a low security Japanese prison.

The film uses a series of short vignettes to portray, often with understated humour, different aspects of prison life, especially the unvarying daily routines, the highly detailed rules, and the petty obsessions and minor pleasures that occupy the inmates' thoughts and conversations.

The film is based on the manga of the same name, which relates the author's experiences during a three-year prison sentence.