In Croatian? Never. The only Croatian I've ever heard has come out of the mouth of Goran Visnjic (and, maybe, Mira Furlan). But English seems to be the only language on the planet where you don't have genders that aren't related to biological gender.

And, yeah, I guess those occasional places where you don't use an article at all are odd. I think the issue is that when you're talking about going to prison (for internment) you're talking about a concept more than either a specific or general place. Same with school. And there's a difference between British and American on that front, too. Americans "go to the hospital" whereas Brits "go to hospital".