imprison imprisons processes to jail. This can be chroot, UID/GID, and/or capability type.

To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.

The confinement of a person in prison or otherwise as punishment for committing a crime.

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

To put a person in prison or jail or otherwise confine him as punishment for committing a crime.