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Conviction , conviction •ashen, fashion, passion, ration •abstraction, action, attraction, benefaction, compaction, contraction, counteraction, diffraction, enact… penitentiary , penitentiary •beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary,… Mittimus , MITTIMUS
A court order directing a sheriff or other police officer to escort a convict to a prison.
A mittimus is a written document. It can command… Prison , Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century monasteries and fortresses often served as prisons (tyurma from German turm = tower). The Russian priso… Incarceration , Confinement in a jail or prison; imprisonment.
Police officers and other law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmake… Reparation , Compensation for an injury; redress for a wrong inflicted.
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