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Meanings of penal imprisonment in English

Spanish
pena privativa de libertad
Catalan
pena privativa de llibertat

Judicial punishment of mandatory custody either in prison or in some other closed therapeutic and/or educational institution.

pena privativa de libertad
Synonyms
Examples for "custodial sentence"
Examples for "custodial sentence"
1
Westfield, 23, is now facing the possibility of a custodial sentence.
The Guardian
2
Mangan is the only person to have received a custodial sentence.
The Irish Times
3
Stone will serve two years' probation after his custodial sentence.
Radio NZ
4
The DPP appealed the decision, and sought a custodial sentence.
The Irish Times
5
However, she would not impose a custodial sentence due to his age and failing health.
The Irish Times
Usage of penal imprisonment in English
1
But I would go further, and challenge the right of the community to inflict penal imprisonment as we know it at all.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
2
And it was upon the suggestion and initiative of this crime that penal imprisonment was invented, and is perpetrated to this day.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
3
They can never forget that first clang of the closing gates in their ears; the whole significance of penal imprisonment is in that.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
4
Penal imprisonment is an institution of old date, born of barbarism and ignorance, nurtured in filth and darkness, and cruelly administered.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
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