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jailing
noun as in arrest
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in imprisonment
Weak matches
- capturing
- confining
- detaining
- immuring
- imprisoning
- incarcerating
- locking up
- quarantining
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But the issue of jailing children in particular has been thrust into the spotlight here, after the territory's new government controversially lowered the age of criminal responsibility from 12 back to 10.
After his jailing, Navalny continued his book in notebook entries, posts on social media and prison diaries, published for the first time.
Pressure on the system has been added in recent weeks by the jailing of people involved in the summer’s rioting.
Others ask a wider question – are we as a society jailing too many or too few people?
On Friday, magistrates were also told to delay jailing criminals as the number of people in prison hit its new weekly high.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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