Imprisonment
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imprisonment · confinement · custody · imprisonments · jail · prison · stocks
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The practice of confining an accused person before trial, discussed as a punishment in itself requiring strict limits.
Imprisonments, I say, being only the means of securing the person of the accused, until he be tried, condemned or acquitted, ought not only to be of short duration, but attended with as little severity as possible.
because imprisonment is rather a punishment, than a means of securing the person of the accused;
The law should, therefore, determine the crime, the presumption, and the evidence sufficient to subject the accused to imprisonment and examination.
Against Timocrates
Confinement used as a legal penalty, additional sanction, or custodial measure for offenders and debtors.
It is clear that the law of Timocrates has both these faults;
In spite of their merits, these men all submitted to the laws.
See what a long stride he has taken from the court of justice and its sentences!