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Vocabulary: prison sentences
As citizens must be protected and offenders repressed, since the dawn of time,
the different societies have developed and implemented a number of measures,
of varied workers, and more or less strict places of seclusion. They all deprive people
of their liberty, or restrict it...
THE PEOPLE INVOLVED:
A prisoner |
A prison officer/ a warder (GB)/ A prison guard (US) |
The governor (GB)/ the warden (US) |
The prison authorities |
PLACES and CONDITIONS:
A prison/ a jail a gaol (GB)/ a penitentiary (US) |
A cell |
A top-security wing |
A mutiny |
Overcrowding |
- (GB) a detention centre/ an approved school /// (US)a reform school/ a reformatory
- To put in prison/ to imprison/ to jail/ to gaol
SENTENCES:
To go to prison |
imprisonment |
Behind bars |
A conviction |
A sentence |
A suspended sentence |
To sentence sb for murder |
A fine/ to fine sb |
To serve a sentence |
- To sentence sb to three years imprisonment/ to pass a three year sentence on sb/
To send sb to prison for three years
- To sentence somebody in his absence
DIFFERENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT:
Life imprisonment Imprisonment for life |
Solitary confinement |
On parole |
An alternative sentence |
A suspended sentence |
To punish somebody for doing something |
Corporal punishment |
To deport/ deportation |
- To get/ give somebody/ a life sentence
- To get a reduction in one's sentence/ to get one's sentence cut
- To put somebody under house arrest
Some punishments have been abolished or are seldom used:
To be hanged The electric chair
Capital punishment |
The death penalty |
To condemn somebody to death/ To sentence somebody to death |
To execute somebody/ To put somebody to death |
An execution/ the executioner |
To be hanged |
The gallows |
To behead somebody |
The scaffold |
The electric chair |
A firing squad |
The solution to escape all this is simply to abide by the law! (to be law-abiding)!
Let's do that!
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