prison time
Behind bars duration
Prison time is a period of incarceration as punishment for a crime.
The phrase emphasizes duration: He served three years of prison time, She's facing serious prison time.
Someone who has done prison time has been incarcerated.
The term often appears in discussions of sentencing: The charges carry up to twenty years of prison time.
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- life sentenceImprisonment without release
- jailDetention facility
- county jailMunicipal detention facility
thrown in jail · penitentiary · maximum security · cell · bars · conviction · lockup · stretch · bid · behind bars · inmate · convict · years · locked up · warden · yard · solitary · hard labor
- sentencinglife sentence, life sentences, death row, consecutive sentences, probation
prison timeprobation
Supervised trial period
freedom · parole · community service · suspended sentence · supervised release
prison timefreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · release · emancipation · independence · autonomy
prison timeeveryday life
Ordinary regular existence
good times · golden years · prime of life · halcyon days · carefree days
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