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imprisonment
im·pris·on I0067100 (ĭm-prĭz′ən)tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine.
[Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en-, in (from Latin in-; see in-2) + prison, prison; see prison.]
im·pris′on·a·ble adj.im·pris′on·ment n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  imprisonment - putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishmentpenalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment - the act of punishinglaw, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | | 2. |  imprisonment - the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"captivity, immurement, incarcerationconfinement - the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"durance - imprisonment (especially for a long time)life imprisonment - a sentence of imprisonment until deathinternment - confinement during wartime | | 3. | imprisonment - the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)internmentconfinement - the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining themlockdown - the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)false imprisonment - (law) confinement without legal authoritycustody - holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody" |
imprisonmentnoun confinement, custody, detention, captivity, incarceration, internment, duress She was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.Translationsimprison (imˈprizn) verb to put in prison; to take or keep prisoner. He was imprisoned for twenty years for his crimes. 監禁 关押imˈprisonment noun 監禁 关押Imprisonment
Imprisonment the most stringent form of punishment entailing deprivation of freedom. In the USSR, imprisonment is very infrequent; as a rule, the penalty of deprivation of freedom takes the form of a term of confinement in a correctional labor colony. Under Soviet criminal law, imprisonment may be imposed for all or part of the term of deprivation of freedom in the case of persons who have committed serious crimes or who are dangerous recidivists. The law provides that individuals (except minors) guilty of malicious transgressions in a correctional labor colony may be transferred to a prison for a period of up to three years. Prisoners who show model behavior and conscientious work attitudes may have their prison sentence reduced by half; the remainder of the sentence is then served in a correctional labor colony. Soviet law does not provide for life imprisonment. The bourgeois states currently use imprisonment as the prevailing penalty entailing deprivation of freedom. Imprisonment may be for an indefinite period (as in France, for example) or for life (as in the United States). ImprisonmentSee also Isolation.Alcatraz Islandformer federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218]Altmark, theGerman prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 27]Andersonvillein southwest Georgia; imprisoned Union soldiers died under wretched conditions. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 99]Atticawell-known prison in Attica, New York; remembered for its riot (1971). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 182]BajazethTurkish emperor confined to a cage by Tamburlaine. [Br. Drama: Tamburlaine the Great in Magill I, 950]ball and chainoriginally penological, now generalized symbol. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 176]BastilleParis prison stormed on July 14, 1789. [Fr. Hist.: Worth, 21]Birdman of AlcatrazRobert F. Stroud (1890–1963), convicted murderer, became ornithologist in prison. [Am. Culture: Misc.]Black Hole of CalcuttaIndian dungeon in which overcrowding suffocated prisoners. [Br. Hist.: Harbottle, 45–46]Bok, Yakovheld in prison for two years under dreadful conditions. [Am. Lit.: Bernard Malamud The Fixer]Cereno, Benitocaptain held captive by mutinous slaves. [Am. Lit.: Benito Cereno]Count of Monte CristoEdmond Dantes; wrongly imprisoned in the dungeons of Chateau D’If. . [Fr. Lit.: The Count of Monte Cristo, Magill I, 158–160]Denisovitch, Ivanstruggles to stay alive in a Soviet prison camp. [Russ. Lit.: Solzhenitzyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch]Devil’s IslandGuiana island penal colony (1852–1938); Alfred Dreyfus among famous prisoners there. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 754]Dromachain forged to fetter wolf, Fenris. [Norse Myth.: LLEI, I: 326]Enormous Room, Theportrays three months behind bars in France. [Am. Lit.: The Enormous Room]Falconerprison where former professor Farragut, who had killed his brother, witnesses the torments and chaos of the penal system. [Am. Lit.: Cheever Falconer in Weiss, 151]Fortunatowalled up to die in catacomb niche. [Am. Lit.: “The Cask of Amontillado” in Portable Poe, 309–316]FotheringayMary Stuart’s final prison and place of execution (1587). [Br. Hist.: Grun, 260]Hogan’s Heroesincarcerated in Stalag 13, unlikeliest of POW camps. [TV: Terrace, I, 357–358]House of the Dead, Theaccount of four years in the fortress-prison of Omsk. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The House of the Dead in Benét, 480]Ibbetson, Peterimprisoned for life, spends all his nights in blissful dreams of existence with his beloved. [Br. Lit. & Am. Opera: G. du Maurier Peter Ibbetson in Magill I, 736]Leavenworththe oldest military prison (est. 1874); also the name of a state penitentiary. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 984]Little Dorritborn and grew up in the prison where for twenty years her father is incarcerated for debt. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Little Dorrit]Man in the Iron Maskmystery prisoner; legendary contender for Louis XIV’s throne. [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 460, 555]Manette, Dr.lost memory during 18-year term in France. [Br. Lit.: A Tale of Two Cities]Marshalseaancient London prison, long used for incarcerating debtors. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 640]Newgatefamed jail of London in centuries past. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 754]Pickwick, Mr. (Samuel) imprisoned for refusing to pay dam-ages in a breach-of-promise suit. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Pickwick Papers]Prisoner of Chillon, Thepoem by Lord Byron; based on imprisonment of François de Bonnivard. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 817]Rubashov, Nicholaspolitical prisoner held in isolation and brutally questioned. [Br. Lit.: Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon in Magill I, 187]San Quentinfamous western California prison (established in 1852); the subject of many songs. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2419]Sing Singnotoriously harsh state prison at Ossining, New York. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 219]Torquilstone Frontde Boeuf’s castle, where he imprisoned Rowena, Rebecca, and Isaac. [Br. Lit.: Walter Scott Ivanhoe]Tower of Londonfamed as jail. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1094]Ugolinotreacherous 13th-century count of Pisa, imprisoned and starved to death with his sons and grandsons. [Ital. Poetry: Inferno]Valjean, Jeanspent nineteen years in prison for stealing loaf of bread. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables]imprisonment
ImprisonmentIncarceration; the act of restraining the personal liberty of an individual; confinement in a prison. Imprisonment can be effected without the application of physical restraint by verbal compulsion coupled with the display of available force. The tort of False Imprisonment involves the illegal arrest or detention of an individual without a warrant, by an illegal warrant, or by an illegally executed warrant, either in a prison or any place used temporarily for such purpose, or by force and constraint without actual confinement. imprisonment see PRISON, YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION.IMPRISONMENT. The restraint of a person contrary to his will. 2 Inst. 589; Baldw. Rep. 239, 600. Imprisonment is either lawful or unlawful; lawful imprisonment is used either for crimes or for the appearance of a party in a civil suit, or on arrest in execution.
2. Imprisonment for crimes is either for the appearance of a person accused, as when he cannot give bail; or it is the effect of a sentence, and then it is a part of the punishment.
3. Imprisonment in civil cases takes place when a defendant on being sued on bailable process refuses or cannot give the bail legally demanded, or is under a capias ad satisfaciendum, when he is taken in execution under a judgment. An unlawful imprisonment, commonly called false imprisonment, (q.v.) means any illegal imprisonment whatever, either with or without process, or under color of process wholly illegal, without regard to any question whether any crime has been committed or a debt due.
4. As to what will amount to an imprisonment, the most obvious modes are confinement in a prison or a private house, but a forcible detention in the street, or the touching of a person by a peace officer by way of arrest, are also imprisonments. Bac. Ab. Trespass, D 3; 1 Esp. R. 431, 526. It has been decided that lifting up a person in his chair, and carrying him out of the room in which he was sitting with others, and excluding him from the room, was not an imprisonment; 1 Chit. Pr. 48; and the merely giving charge of a person to a peace officer, not followed by any actual apprehension of the person, does not amount to an imprisonment, though the party to avoid it, next day attend at a police; 1 Esp. R. 431; New Rep. 211; 1 Carr. & Payn. 153; S. C. II Eng. Com. Law, R. 351; and if, in consequence of a message from a sheriff's officer holding a writ, the defendant execute and send him a bail bond, such submission to the process will not constitute an arrest. 6 Barn. & Cress. 528; S. C. 13 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 245; Dowl. & R.233. Vide, generally, 14 Vin. Ab. 342; 4 Com. Dig. 618; 1 Chit. Pr. 47; Merl. Repert. mot Emprisonment; 17 Eng. Com. L. R. 246, n. imprisonment
Synonyms for imprisonmentnoun confinementSynonyms- confinement
- custody
- detention
- captivity
- incarceration
- internment
- duress
Synonyms for imprisonmentnoun putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishmentRelated Words- penalisation
- penalization
- penalty
- punishment
- law
- jurisprudence
noun the state of being imprisonedSynonyms- captivity
- immurement
- incarceration
Related Words- confinement
- durance
- life imprisonment
- internment
noun the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)SynonymsRelated Words- confinement
- lockdown
- false imprisonment
- custody
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