Imprisonment in a jail or penitentiary.
the state of being in prison, or being confined.
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"
The act of imprisoning or confining.
Confinement in an institution, such as prison or mental hospital.
To confine someone or defining the act of confining someone.
Imprisonment, confinement in a detention center or a secure facility. Similar to a jail or prison.
involves placement and restricted supervision of a convicted offender in an institution, such as a prison. To suggest or show involvement in a crime is to incriminate a person. The concept of intellectual property encompasses such things as patents for inventions, trademarks, industrial secrets and copyright in songs and writing. An intensive rehabilitative custody order is a sentence that is to be served in a secure medical facility.
Another term for imprisonment.
Incarceration is the detention of a person in jail or prison. People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion (or conviction) of committing a crime.