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    Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will. Imprisonment could be given for any cause whatsoever, whether...
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  • Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives...
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  • In the United States, life imprisonment is the most severe punishment provided by law in states with no valid capital punishment statute, and second-most...
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  • False imprisonment or unlawful imprisonment occurs when a person intentionally restricts another person's movement within any area without legal authority...
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    provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention.[citation needed] Any form of imprisonment where a person's freedom of liberty is removed can be classed as detention...
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  • Life imprisonment (Irish: príosúnacht saoil) in the Republic of Ireland may last for the natural life of the convict. While life imprisonment is the most...
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  • Indefinite imprisonment or indeterminate imprisonment is the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment with no definite period of time set during sentencing...
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    Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement...
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  • from Latin: reclusio perpetua, lit. 'permanent imprisonment') is a type of sentence of imprisonment in the Philippines, Argentina, and several other...
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    studies are inconclusive as to whether high imprisonment rates reduce crime rates in comparison to low imprisonment rates. While they at least remove offenders...
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    broke".[citation needed] Imprisonment for the non-payment of debt was competent at Scots common law, but the effect of imprisonment for such stood in marked...
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  • life imprisonment. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 introduced new mandatory life sentences and created a new kind of life sentence, called "imprisonment for...
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    Arabian administrator of the Arabic Wikipedia, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in September 2020 for "swaying public opinion" and "violating public...
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  • no offences subject to mandatory life imprisonment; even so, life imprisonment can be imposed. Life imprisonment remains mandatory for murder in South...
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  • Probation is imposed as a substitute for imprisonment. Supervised release is imposed in addition to imprisonment. The special assessment is quadrupled in...
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  • military penal code is life imprisonment. The maximum determinate penalty (civilian penal code) is 21 years' imprisonment, but only a small percentage...
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  • by law. The following is a list of individuals that have either been imprisoned for spying, or individuals that have been arrested in connection to their...
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    life imprisonment. From 1 January 2013 onwards, the amendments to the death penalty laws in Singapore allow judges to impose life imprisonment as the...
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  • Any person released on parole from a term of life imprisonment or an indeterminate term of imprisonment must remain on parole, with conditions by the Parole...
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  • This is a list of notable false imprisonment cases that lasted for multiple years. Alba Nidia Álvarez, Mariquita, Colombia, 25 years, discovered in March...
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  • In Finland, life imprisonment is the maximum criminal penalty. In actual practice, life imprisonment rarely lasts for the remainder of a convict's life;...
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  • Life imprisonment in South Africa has an indeterminate length and may last for the remainder of the offender's life. It is a mandatory punishment for premeditated...
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    S. Congress has ordered federal judges to make imprisonment decisions "recognizing that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction...
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  • In the United States, pay-to-stay is the practice of charging prisoners for their accommodation in jails. The practice is controversial, because it can...
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  • In Germany, life imprisonment (lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe) has an indeterminate length and is the most severe punishment that can be imposed. A person...
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  • Life imprisonment in Mexico is theoretically legal, but as of 2001, the Mexican Supreme Court stated that all persons sentenced to life imprisonment or...
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  • Life imprisonment in Sweden is a term of imprisonment for an indeterminate length. It is the most severe punishment available in Sweden. Swedish law states...
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  • Life imprisonment in Russia was introduced on December 17, 1992, by the law 4123-I. Courts could not sentence criminals to life imprisonment at that time...
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  • things. Administrative detention Contempt of cop False arrest False imprisonment Forced disappearance Habeas corpus Kettling Kidnapping Mass arrest Preemptive...
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    false imprisonment, manslaughter by negligence, and incest. In March 2009, he pleaded guilty to all counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Wikinews...
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