Body a vile prison?

I'm not inlcined to think of the body as a prison, although I believe some Greek philosophers sometimes did. The Prayer Book also calls the body a prison. I guess it sometimes can be, when a person has some kinds of illness. Maybe the body is a house, sometimes a prisonhouse. The Prayer Book with the KJV of Phil 3:21 speaks of our vile bodies. Perhaps the NIV and ESV do better with "lowly", I don't know. Certainly our bodies are weak and frail. But are they vile (necessarily, of themselves)? Speak for yourself.