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GCSE History · key term
A punishment that deprives an offender of their freedom by keeping them in prison.
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Revise: Prison Reform and the Influence of Howard and FryIncreasingly, imprisonment itself became a punishment: offenders lost their freedom for a period of time. It became still more important as transportation declined and eventually ended.
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Keeping someone confined in a prison; in medieval England this was chiefly used to hold accused people awaiting trial.
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The important distinction is between confinement while a case was being dealt with and imprisonment used as the punishment itself.