拘置所|こうちしょkouchisho

1. nounprison; detention house; detention center; jail
   ついに反逆者はんぎゃくしゃは捕とらえられ、拘置所こうちしょに入いれられた。↗

   The rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.

• Related刑務所けいむしょNeutralFacility where convicted offenders serve their sentences; 「拘置所」 holds unsentenced defendants and those whose death sentence has not yet been carried out.
• Related監獄かんごくWrittenOld-fashioned written term for prisons like 「刑務所」; 「拘置所」 is the current facility holding unsentenced defendants and death-row inmates.
• Related牢獄ろうごくWrittenWritten, literary word for a place that confines criminals, often used figuratively; 「拘置所」 is the name of a concrete modern facility.
• Related獄舎ごくしゃWrittenWritten, old-style word for the building where criminals are confined; modern facilities are called 「拘置所」 or 「刑務所」.
• Related牢屋ろうやCasualColloquial general word for a jail, said of both old and modern times, as in 「牢屋に入れられる」; 「拘置所」 is the formal name of a specific modern facility.
• Related牢ろうNeutralSingle-character, old-fashioned word for a jail, mostly as 「牢に入れる」; 「拘置所」 is the modern formal facility name.
• Related獄ごくWrittenSingle character used mainly in compounds like 「獄中」 and 「出獄」; on its own it means a jail, while modern facilities are called 「拘置所」.
• Relatedブタ箱ぶたばこCasualColloquial, derogatory name for the police lockup (留置場); 「拘置所」 is a different type of facility run by the Ministry of Justice.
• Related獄所ごくしょWrittenRare written word for any facility that confines criminals; everyday speech says 「刑務所」, and unsentenced detainees are held in 「拘置所」.

「拘置所」 holds unsentenced defendants and death-row inmates awaiting execution; convicted prisoners go to 「刑務所」. 「ブタ箱」 is slang for a police lockup and 「牢屋」 a colloquial word for jail; 「監獄」「牢獄」「獄舎」「牢」「獄」「獄所」 are literary or old-fashioned terms.

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1. 刑けいが確定かくていしていない者ものや死刑しけいが確定かくていしてまだ執行しっこうされていない者ものを収容しゅうようする施設しせつ。