- imprisonment - putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
--1 is a kind of punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
Derived form: verb imprison1 - captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement - 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"
--2 is a kind of confinement
--2 has particulars: durance; life imprisonment; internmentDerived form: verb imprison2 - imprisonment, internment - the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
--3 is a kind of confinement
--3 has particulars: lockdown; false imprisonment; custodyDerived form: verb imprison1