The deprivation model holds that deviant inmate attitudes and violent behaviors will be more prevalent in facilities characterized by rigid, formalized inmate control mechanisms. Most studies on this topic have focused on prisons in western democracies. As a result, the sensitivity of the deprivation model to cultural variability remains largely unknown. Results of the aggregate-level analysis of the Korean data revealed that prisonization was more common among inmates housed under very rigid conditions. At the inmate level, the variable cluster for the deprivation model accounted for a sizable portion of the expanded variance associated with prisonization. Findings indicated that the deprivation model appears to be equally applicable in the Korean correctional context and in western prisons. Tables, notes, and 36 references (Author abstract modified)