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What is the adjective for prisoners?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs imprison and prison which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

imprisonable
  1. Capable of being imprisoned.
  2. (law, of an offence) The sentence for which is imprisonment.
  3. Examples:
    1. “They allow the courts to imprison people for offences which are not otherwise imprisonable.”
      “Remand in custody shall generally be available only in respect of persons suspected of committing offences that are imprisonable.”
      “Henceforth, every Member State will have to make it an imprisonable offence to publicly justify, deny or crudely trivialise crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and I am satisfied about that.”
prisonerlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.
prisonous
  1. (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
prisonlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prison
  2. Examples:
    1. “Inside the towns, quarantine went into effect, with the sick isolated in prisonlike infirmaries called lazarettos.”
      “It was often described as a prisonlike facility and was overdue for a redesign.”
      “She waits for a place outside her prisonlike tent where she can crawl freely and play.”
prisonless
  1. Without prisons.
imprisoned
imprisoning
prisoned
prisoning
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