imprisonments
Terms behind bars
Imprisonments are instances of being confined in prison or otherwise deprived of liberty.
The word covers both the act of imprisoning and the state of being imprisoned: The regime's mass imprisonments drew international condemnation.
Figuratively, any severe confinement qualifies: the imprisonments of poverty and ignorance.
Confinement in jail
- detentionTemporary official holding
- confinementState of being restricted
- sentencingImposing legal punishment
- convictionFirmly held belief
custody · penal · correctional · parole · probation · remand · commitment · internment
Basic biological units
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- isolationComplete separation from others
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
overcrowding · lockdown · inmates · guards · wardens · facilities · penitentiary · dungeon
Unable to escape
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- enslavementForced human ownership
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- suffocationFatal lack of air
restriction · constraint · entrapment · cage · chains · shackles · burden · tyranny
Political objectors
- activistsPeople working for causes
- prisoners of consciencePeople jailed for beliefs
- political prisonersPeople jailed for ideology
- detaineesPeople held in custody
persecution · repression · authoritarian · regime · opposition · censorship · human rights · Amnesty International
Underground prison chambers
- towersTall vertical structures
- galleysOar-powered ancient warships
- transportationMoving people or goods
- penal coloniesRemote places housing convicts
Bastille · Alcatraz · Robben Island · gulags · concentration camps · internment camps · oubliette · stockade
incarceration
Confinement in jail
- detentionTemporary official holding
- confinementState of being restricted
- sentencingImposing legal punishment
conviction · custody · penal · correctional · parole · probation · remand · commitment · internment · lockup
cells
Basic biological units
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- isolationComplete separation from others
solitary · overcrowding · lockdown · inmates · guards · wardens · facilities · penitentiary · dungeon · shackles
trapped
Unable to escape
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- enslavementForced human ownership
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
suffocation · restriction · constraint · entrapment · cage · chains · shackles · burden · tyranny · subjugation
dissidents
Political objectors
- activistsPeople working for causes
- prisoners of consciencePeople jailed for beliefs
- political prisonersPeople jailed for ideology
detainees · persecution · repression · authoritarian · regime · opposition · censorship · human rights · Amnesty International · exile
dungeons
Underground prison chambers
- towersTall vertical structures
- galleysOar-powered ancient warships
- transportationMoving people or goods
penal colonies · Bastille · Alcatraz · Robben Island · gulags · concentration camps · internment camps · oubliette · stockade · chain gangs
imprisonmentsreleases
Lets go or publishes
freedoms · liberations · discharges · emancipations · manumissions
imprisonmentsacquittals
Verdicts freeing defendants
exonerations · pardons · amnesties · absolutions · dismissals
- life imprisonmentIncarceration until natural death
- false imprisonmentIllegal restraint of movement
- political imprisonmentJailing for ideology
- wrongful imprisonmentUnlawful confinement of innocents
- unlawful imprisonmentIllegal restraint of another