Definition of imprisonment Imprisonment

/ɪmpɹɪˈzʌnmʌnt/ - [imprizunmunt] - im•pris•on•ment

We found 7 definitions of imprisonment from 5 different sources.

What does imprisonment mean?

Noun Plural: imprisonments
imprisonment - the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
		internment
		confinement the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
		lockdown the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)
		false imprisonment (law) confinement without legal authority
imprisonment - putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
		penalisation, penalization, punishment, penalty the act of punishing
		jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
imprisonment - 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"
		captivity, incarceration, immurement
		confinement the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
		durance imprisonment (especially for a long time)
		life imprisonment a sentence of imprisonment until death

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imprisonment
Officers may be sentenced to imprisonment by a general court-martial in any case where the court may have discretionary authority. General, garrison, and regimental courts-martial may sentence soldiers to imprisonment, solitary or otherwise, with or without hard labor, for various offenses enumerated in the Articles of War. A garrison or regimental court-martial, in awarding imprisonment, is limited to a period not exceeding thirty days. When a court awards solitary imprisonment as a punishment, it is necessary that the words “solitary confinement” should be expressed in the sentence. The legal imprisonment in the United States is confinement, solitary confinement, and confinement on bread and water; confinement on bread and water shall not extend over fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of such confinement not less than such periods, and not exceeding eighty-four days in any one year.