(n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(2) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
(3) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(4) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(5) The US department of justice is understood to have opened an investigation into the death, and four others in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, following a referral from the CIA.
(6) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
(7) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(8) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
(9) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
(10) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(11) Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers Read more In line with the findings of the royal commission, Cavanagh said the increased number of Indigenous people in custody would likely lead to a proportionate increase in custodial deaths.
(12) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(13) Therefore, no institution can be therapeutic for the patient, since its aim must be his custody and violent destruction.
(14) Leyla Yunus has diabetes and hepatitis C. The health of both Yunuses has gravely deteriorated over the year they’ve already spent in custody.
(15) It is understood that this second callout was in relation to the death in custody.
(16) His client has been in custody since Saturday when he was arrested in connection with the New IRA attack.
(17) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(18) This is evidence that custodial workers as a group have had asbestos exposure in the past, as reflected also in the work histories obtained at the time of examination.
(19) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(20) There are two basic findings from the hospitalization outcome literature: Active treatment is more effective than custodial care, and length-of-stay has little influence on later outcome.
Impound
Definition:
(v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the available pre-impoundment data is inadequate to make a definite conclusion of the impact of the lake formation on the status of onchocerciasis in the area, it is apparent that here, as in most other parts of the country, the prevalence, manifestations, complications and public health significance of onchocerciasis justify the ongoing campaign for the urgent implementation of a nation-wide onchocerciasis control programme in Nigeria.
(2) Average CR values for plants growing on exposed tailings and within one meter from the impoundment edge were 0.15 and 0.3, respectively.
(3) This experimental model, which results in severe paraplegia and development of complete segmental necrosis, was studied in a time sequence varying from immediately to 30 days afterward by electron microscopy, in order to characterize the pathologic changes in axons and myelin in the area of impounding.
(4) Bundy is accused of recruiting hundreds of supporters to his ranch in 2014, where the US bureau of land management was making arrangements for his cattle to be impounded due to unpaid grazing fees and fines dating back to 1998.
(5) The more water we impound, the more power we produce, the less support we require," said Mark Shorrock, chief executive of Tidal Lagoon Power.
(6) Research and management experience have demonstrated that Rotational Impoundment Management (RIM) and rotary ditching can provide ecologically sound source reduction benefits.
(7) The FSA confirmed that meat held in cold storage in Northern Ireland has been impounded after it was discovered to contain equine DNA.
(8) His computer has been impounded as part of the paper's internal investigation and the company is trawling through his emails.
(9) Biomphalaria pfeifferi which transmits S. mansoni were found principally in streams and impoundments like dams but scarce in rivers.
(10) The undesirable effect due to heavy impounders is discussed.
(11) Mosquito populations persist at very low levels over a 10-year period with no evidence of mosquito development in the impoundment.
(12) He was accused of paying a $25,000 bribe to a government official for the release of bombproof cars that had been impounded.
(13) In addition, determinations of the contribution of such variables as mass of drop-weight, impounder diameter, and animal weight to variability were made.
(14) Shortly after, the police impounded my wife’s passport with no grounds whatsoever.
(15) The impounded lumber is sold in auctions and the money obtained is invested in environmental preservation programmes.
(16) Most of the measured parameters were indistinguishable from background after a distance of 3.3 km from the tailings impoundment.
(17) A 2.4-mm-diameter impounder was lowered onto the dura and a 10-g weight dropped 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0, or 17.5 cm onto the impounder.
(18) They also considered “impoundment,” but it had already been used for something else.
(19) Weetabix impounded – Hundreds of boxes of Weetabix bound for an expats store in New Zealand have been impounded by customs officials at the behest of a rival cereal giant.
(20) The sites included an upland impounding reservoir, 3 rivers and 10 streams within Lancashire and Cheshire, selected because of their accessibility to farm livestock.