noun
imprisonment; prison sentence
A legal term referring to a sentence of imprisonment. In Japanese law, it is a type of punishment that involves confinement in a penal institution.
裁判官は被告人に拘禁刑を言い渡した。
The judge sentenced the defendant to imprisonment.
拘禁刑は、刑法で定められた刑罰の一つです。
Imprisonment is one of the penalties stipulated in the Penal Code.
禁錮 is an older term for imprisonment without labor, now largely replaced by 拘禁刑 in modern legal terminology.
Compound of 拘禁 (confinement) and 刑 (punishment). The term was introduced in Japanese legal reforms to unify previous categories of imprisonment.