Prisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
parole
parole [Old French, speech, word, prisoner's word of honor to fulfill stated conditions, from Late Latin parabola speech, parable, from Greek parabolē comparison] :
reprieve
reprieve re·prieved re·priev·ing [alteration of earlier repry to send back (to prison), return to custody, perhaps from Anglo-French repris, past participle of reprendre to take back, from Old French] :
search
this entry shake·down search [shāk-dan-] : a search for illicit or contraband material (as weapons or drugs) in prisoners' cells that is usually random and warrantless NOTE: In Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517 (1984), the U.S.
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Bail bond
A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety to insure the prisoners appearance in court at the return of the writ
dungeon
A close dark prison commonly under ground as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle these being
VerbarMittimus
A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime a warrant of commitment to prison
parole board
A group of individuals with authority to determine whether a prisoner will be granted parole5 from a particular prison
house of detention
house of detention :a place where prisoners and occasionally witnesses are detained pending a trial compare house of correction, jail, lockup, penitentiary, prison
Abatement
a married woman. In criminal proceedings, a plea in abatement might have been given in writing by a prisoner or defendant on account of misnomer, wrongful or no addition, annexing thereto an affidavit of its truth. But
Commitment
Commitment, (1) the sending a person to prison by warrantor order, either for a crime, contempt, or contumacy [see the (English) Debtors Act, 1869, for the
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