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Aller en prison - Vocab English to French

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Aller en prison - Vocab English to French

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Key topic words

  • la captivité - captivity
  • l'incarcération - sending to prison
  • le détenu - inmate
  • la cellule - cell
  • la prison ferme - imprisonment
  • la remise en liberté - release
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Nouns

  • prison avec sursis - suspended prison sentence
  • le durcissement - toughening
  • le mépris - contempt
  • la maison d'arrêt - prison
  • l'entassement - overcrowding
  • la torture - torture
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Nouns (continued)

  • la surpopulation carcérale - overcrowding in prison
  • la résinsertion sociale - social reinsertion
  • la peine - sentence
  • le personnel pénitentiaire - prison staff
  • la récidive - reoffending
  • le système carcéral - prison system
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Nouns (continued)

  • un échec - failure
  • un homicide involontaire - manslaughter
  • un homicide volontaire - murder
  • un meurtre - murder
  • un assassinat - murder/killing
  • le raccourcissement de peine - shortening of a sentence
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Nouns (continued)

  • le recours - appeal
  • la mise en liberté provisoire - to be remanded in custody
  • la justice restaurative - restorative justice
  • la réclusion à perpétuité - life imprisonment
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Verbs

  • être incarcéré - to be jailed
  • prôner - to advocate
  • infliger - to inflict
  • empirer - to worsen
  • contraindre - to force
  • craindre - to fear
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Verbs (continued)

  • passer du temps - to spend time
  • remettre dans le droit chemin - to put back on the straight and narrow
  • valoir la peine - to be worth it
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Adjectives

  • coupable - guilty

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