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noun
- 1. a person legally committed to prison as a punishment for a crime or while awaiting trial: "a prisoner serving a life sentence" Similar
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4 days ago · Thousands of people every year are illegally detained in countries around the world. While the right to liberty of person is not an absolute right, deprivation of liberty may never be arbitrary, and must be carried out with respect for the rule of law.
4 days ago · Located near the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland, Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labor camp. Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died there; 90 percent of them were Jews.
- Michael Berenbaum
4 days ago · corporal punishment, the infliction of physical pain upon a person’s body as punishment for a crime or infraction. Corporal punishments include flogging, beating, branding, mutilation, blinding, and the use of the stock and pillory.
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5 days ago · A prison or penitentiary holds people for longer periods of time, such as many years, and is operated by a state or federal government. A jail holds people for shorter periods of time or for pre-trial detention and is usually operated by a local government, typically the county sheriff.
3 days ago · Prison population is determined by two things: how many people are sent to prison, and how long they stay there. And importantly, there are three groups of people in prisons: ‘standard’ prisoners, who are serving custodial sentences; people on remand, waiting either to be tried or to be sentenced after conviction; and people who have been recalled to prison after release for breaching the terms of their parole.
1 day ago · A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Etymologically, the term capital (lit.
5 days ago · The economic drivers and consequences of mass incarceration. Below, we’ve curated virtually all of the research about the various economic factors of incarceration. How much does the criminal justice system cost, and who pays for it? How well-funded are prisons and jails? What are the economic impacts and origins of mass incarceration?
