獄ごく中ちゅう

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

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noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

during imprisonment; while in jail; in prison

Refers to the period or state of being in prison. Often used in news or formal contexts to describe events or conditions inside prison.

He wrote a memoir while in prison.

獄ごく中ちゅうの生せい活かつは想そう像ぞう以い上じょうに厳きびしい。

Life in prison is harsher than one might imagine.

獄ごく中ちゅうで〈動どう詞し〉to do something while in prison
彼かれは獄ごく中ちゅうで回かい想そう録ろくを書かいた。
He wrote his memoirs while in prison.
獄ごく中ちゅう生せい活かつを送おくるto lead a life in prison
彼かの女じょは十じゅう年ねん間かん、獄ごく中ちゅう生せい活かつを送おくった。
She spent ten years living in prison.
獄ごく中ちゅうで死し亡ぼうするto die while in prison
その活かつ動どう家かは獄ごく中ちゅうで死し亡ぼうした。
The activist died in prison.

刑けい務む所しょN1
刑務所 names the physical prison building, while 獄中 describes the state or period of being imprisoned there.
服ふく役えき
服役 emphasizes serving one's sentence as a legal process, whereas 獄中 simply describes being physically inside prison.
収しゅう監かん
収監 is the formal legal term for being taken into custody and incarcerated, while 獄中 refers to the ongoing state of being in prison.

拘こう置ち所しょ
拘置所 is specifically a detention center for suspects awaiting trial, whereas 獄中 can describe imprisonment in any facility, including after conviction.

Compound of 獄 (prison) and 中 (inside, during). The reading is on'yomi.