imprisonment

Noun

Meaning

the state of being imprisoned

the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King Jr.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. Alexander McQueen

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked. Lu Xun

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years? Anton Chekhov

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. Gary Becker

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