imprisonment
Doing hard time
Imprisonment is confinement in a prison or jail, typically as punishment for a crime: The judge sentenced him to five years' imprisonment.
The term extends to any state of being trapped or confined against one's will: She felt the marriage had become a kind of imprisonment.
False imprisonment is the legal term for unlawfully restraining someone's freedom of movement.
State of being confined
- cageBarred confinement structure
- lockupTemporary detention facility
- isolationComplete separation from others
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
internment · seclusion · containment · stockade · compound · shackles · chains · bars
Detention facility
- cellBasic unit of life
- inmateConfined facility resident
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
cellblock · convict · detention · custody · correctional · sentence · solitary · reformatory
Unjust exercise of power
- wrongful convictionErroneous guilty verdict
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- gulagForced labor prison system
concentration camp · labor camp · dissident · exile · internee · detainee · hostage · repression
Complete thought, grammatically
- convictionFirmly held belief
- penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- justiceFair treatment under law
deterrence · rehabilitation · verdict · judgment · time served · incapacitation · restitution · sentencing
captivity
State of being confined
- cageBarred confinement structure
- lockupTemporary detention facility
- isolationComplete separation from others
enclosure · internment · seclusion · containment · stockade · compound · shackles · chains · bars · manacles
jail
Detention facility
penitentiary · cellblock · convict · detention · custody · correctional · sentence · solitary · reformatory · jailer
oppression
Unjust exercise of power
- wrongful convictionErroneous guilty verdict
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
gulag · concentration camp · labor camp · dissident · exile · internee · detainee · hostage · repression · false accusation
sentence
Complete thought, grammatically
- convictionFirmly held belief
- penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
justice · deterrence · rehabilitation · verdict · judgment · time served · incapacitation · restitution · sentencing · mandatory minimum
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, warden, cellmate
- anti-piracynaval patrol, naval patrols, escort mission, hostage rescue, warships
- djinndjinn, jinn, three wishes, magic lamp, genie bottle
- feudal punishmenthanging, flogging, whipping, pillory, dungeon
- Mandela LegacyRobben Island, anti-apartheid, Nobel Peace Prize, Mandela Day
- Napoleon's ExileNapoleon, Elba, Saint Helena, St. Helena, exile
imprisonmentfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · release · liberation · free movement · mobility
imprisonmentemancipation
Release from legal bondage
liberation · freedom · liberty · independence · manumission
- life imprisonmentIncarceration until natural death
- false imprisonmentIllegal restraint of movement
- political imprisonmentJailing for ideology
- wrongful imprisonmentUnlawful confinement of innocents
- unlawful imprisonmentIllegal restraint of another