The following list is compiled from the Islamic Republic's official prison website, confirmed reports on specific political prisoners, and Amnesty International's 2010 report on prisoners of conscience.
- Criminal Department Detention Centre 59 in Tehran
- Army Intelligence Organization Detention Centre
- Public Places Detention Centre 60
- Defense Ministry Intelligence Department Centre, known as 64
- Police Intelligence Department Centre
- Revolutionary Guards Security Intelligence Department Centre
- Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Department Centre
- Section 209 of Evin Prison
- Criminal Investigations Detention Centre in Shahr-e Rey
- Rey Counter-Narcotics Headquarters
- The Centre at Police Station 160 in Khazaneh
- Unit 3 of Qezel-Hesar Jail in Karaj
- Kharvin Correctional Facility at Varamin, southern Tehran province
- Varamin Criminal Department detention center in southern Tehran province
- Shahriar Criminal Department detention center
- Shahriar Counter-Narcotics Headquarters detention center
- Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, southern Iran
- Bandar Abbas Prison in Hormozgan province, southern Iran
- Dastgerd Prison in Esfahan, central Iran
- Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, western Iran
- Kermanshah Central Prison, Kermanshah province in western Iran
- Karoun Prison in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, south-western Iran
- Langaroud Prison, Gilan Province, northern Iran
- Maku Prison, West Azerbaijan province, north-western Iran
- Qezel Hesar Prison near Karaj, Tehran province
- Qom Prison, central Iran
- Raja’i Shahr Prison, also known as Gohardasht, in Karaj
- Sanandaj Central Prison, in Kordestan province, western Iran
- Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz
- Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, north-eastern Iran
- Prison in Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchistan province, south-eastern Iran
- Towhid (possibly shut down in August 2000, but is unofficial, so it may be open) in Tehran, Iran
- Zanjan Prison in Zanjan province, north-west Iran
- "Minus 4" (basement of the Interior Ministry, central Tehran)
- Kahrizak detention center, operated by the Judiciary, in southern Tehran
- Gohardasht, in Karaj
- Orumiyeh Central Prison in Orumiyeh, capital of West Azerbaijan province, north-western Iran
- Saghez Prison in Saghez (NW Kurdish region)
- Intel Ministry detention center in in Zahedan, capital of Sistan and Baluchesta province in southeastern Iran
