Imprison in a sentence as a verb

I as an individual don't have the power to stop, detain, and imprison someone. I don't have a "license to ****".

We can't imprison them while they live in the foreign land, so lets bring them here and then we can apply justice. Am I missing something that makes this an ethical thing to do?

The cost to the state to imprison such barely harmful acts is definitely not worth it. All she deserves is a slap on the wrist, a small fine and some probation time.

Smugly determining that "crack baby" was some racist code word cooked up to imprison black people is missing the point. Crack lowered the price point of ******* dramatically, and was devastating to inner city communities.

Half of Americans think it's okay to imprison suspects for life without evidence, to **** suspects and their families in drone strikes, and many well-respected tech companies do all sorts of grievous harm. No apologies.

Martin Luther King didn't live in a world where we imprison innocent men in legal limbo without trial or habeas corpus, or where we officially sanctioned torture and the oubliette. He could trust that he would be vindicated by the justice system.

"Martin Luther King didn't live in a world where we imprison innocent men in legal limbo without trial or habeas corpus, or where we officially sanctioned torture and the oubliette. He could trust that he would be vindicated by the justice system."

They aren't threatening to imprison the owners. They're saying, "hey, owners, your operation of this business is so negligent and creates so many costs to the neighborhood that after multiple interventions with local law enforcement we're finally forced to sue".

If a single judge can wrongfully imprison 4,000 children - and not out of ineptitude, but for profit - then how can we possibly trust the rest of the judicial system not to convict innocent people of capital crimes?

> Helps imprison the right sort of person. While I agree with the general sentiment, it is worth noting that the original law that created the sentencing disparities between crack and powder *******, the anti-druge abuse act of 1986, was supported by the congressional black caucus [1] because crack was such a serious problem in the black community at the time.

Government also enjoys the acceptance by society that it is the only actor with certain authorities, like the authority to mediate conflict with violence, imprison and execute people, break up companies or prevent mergers by force, and fund itself via taxation. If a "normal" organization did any of those things, you would probably resist, and your neighbors would probably take your side.

So the wrongly accused man was physically in jail at the reported time of the ******, and yet the system moved forward to imprison him for nearly two decades... because of this: > There was a lot at stake for the detectives, who said all eight defendants had confessed.

He didn't really make any effort to reduce the prosecutorial overreach and over-imprisonment perpetrated by his own office when he had that opportunity, and he hasn't made any effort at reform in the Senate, either. If anything, his main efforts over the years have been in the opposite direction: to imprison more people, for longer sentences, with fewer procedural safeguards and less court oversight.

Imprison definitions

verb

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

verb

confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"