What is another word for house arrest?

Pronunciation: [hˈa͡ʊs ɐɹˈɛst] (IPA)

House arrest is a legal term that refers to the practice of confining an individual to their residence as a form of punishment. There are several synonyms for this term which include, home detention, community confinement, and electronic monitoring. Home detention refers to a form of confinement that is generally less restrictive than house arrest and often allows the offender to leave the residence for specific reasons such as work or education. Community confinement includes various forms of confinement, such as transitional houses, treatment centers, and halfway houses. Electronic monitoring is a form of community confinement which involves the use of monitoring devices such as ankle bracelets to track an individual's movements.

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What are the hyponyms for House arrest?

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Famous quotes with House arrest

  • Power is mostly the illusion of power. The Pentagon demanded we destroy our publications. We kept publishing. Clinton denounced us and said we were an attack on the entire "international community". We kept publishing. I was put in prison and under house arrest. We kept publishing. We went head to head with the NSA getting Edward Snowden out of Hong Kong, we won and got him asylum. Clinton tried to destroy us and was herself destroyed. Elephants, it seems, can be brought down with string. Perhaps there are no elephants.
    Julian Assange
  • What normal country has three former presidents, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Muhammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who can’t obtain passports to travel abroad? And dozens of former high officials in jail, plus an ex-prime minister, Mir-Hussein Mussavi, and a former speaker of parliament, Mehdi Karrubi, under house arrest without charge?
    Amir Taheri

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