刑けい務む所しょ

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

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prison; jail; penitentiary

General term for a correctional facility where convicted criminals are incarcerated. Covers both 'prison' and 'jail' in English.

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He served five years in prison.

刑けい務む所しょの周まわりには高たかい塀へいがある。

There is a high wall around the prison.

〈人ひと〉が刑けい務む所しょに入はいるfor someone to go to/be sent to prison
彼かれは詐さ欺ぎ罪ざいで刑けい務む所しょに入はいった。
He went to prison for fraud.
〈人ひと〉を刑けい務む所しょに入いれるto put someone in prison; to imprison someone
裁さい判ばん所しょは彼かれを刑けい務む所しょに入いれることを決きめた。
The court decided to send him to prison.
刑けい務む所しょから出でるto be released from prison
彼かれは五ご年ねんの刑けい期きを終おえて刑けい務む所しょから出でた。
He got out of prison after finishing his five-year sentence.
刑けい務む所しょに服ふく役えきするto serve time in prison
彼かれは殺さつ人じん罪ざいで十じゅう年ねん間かん刑けい務む所しょに服ふく役えきした。
He served ten years in prison for murder.

監かん獄ごく
監獄 is an old-fashioned or literary word for prison, while 刑務所 is the standard modern legal term.
牢ろう屋や
牢屋 is a colloquial, somewhat old-fashioned word for a jail cell, while 刑務所 is the formal, official term for a prison.
獄ごく
刑務所 is the standard modern legal term for a prison facility, while 獄 is an older, more literary or generic word for a place of confinement.
獄ごく中ちゅう
刑務所 names the physical prison building, while 獄中 describes the state or period of being imprisoned there.
留りゅう置ち場じょう
留置場 temporarily holds suspects before or during investigation, whereas 刑務所 is a prison where people serve sentences after conviction.

拘こう置ち所しょ
拘置所 holds suspects awaiting trial, while 刑務所 holds people already convicted and sentenced.
留りゅう置ち所じょ
留置所 is a short-term police holding cell, while 刑務所 is a long-term prison for convicted criminals.
収しゅう容よう所じょ
刑務所 houses people convicted of crimes as punishment, while 収容所 can hold people who committed no crime, such as refugees or prisoners of war.

Compound of 刑 (けい, 'punishment'), 務 (む, 'duty' or 'work'), and 所 (しょ, 'place'). Literally 'place of penal work'.