Editing Imprisonment (section)

===England and Wales===
In English law, imprisonment is the restraint of a person's [[liberty]].<ref>[[Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice]]. 1999. Chapter 5. Section II. "Sentences of Imprisonment".</ref> The 17th century book [[Termes de la Ley]] contains the following definition:
{{Blockquote|Imprisonment is no other thing than the restraint of a man's liberty, whether it be in the open field, or in the stocks, or in the cage in the streets or in a man's own house, as well as in the common gaols; and in all the places the party so restrained is said to be a prisoner so long as he hath not his liberty freely to go at all times to all places whither he will without [[bail]] or [[mainprise]] or otherwise.<ref>[[John Rastell]]. [[Termes de la Ley]]. 1636. Page 202. [https://archive.org/details/lestermesdelale00unkngoog/page/n439 <!-- pg=202 --> Digital copy] from [[Google Books]].</ref>}}
Imprisonment without lawful cause is a [[tort]] called [[false imprisonment]].<ref>Clerk and Lindsell on Torts. [[Sweet and Maxwell]]. Sixteenth Edition. 1989. Paragraph 17-15 at page 972.</ref>
In England and Wales, a much larger proportion of the black population is imprisoned than of the white.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Flynn | first1 = Nick | title = Introduction to Prisons and Imprisonment | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cxnbCgAAQBAJ | series = Introductory Series | year = 1998 | location = Winchester | publisher = Waterside Press | publication-date = 1998 | page = 79 | isbn = 9781872870373 | access-date = 19 August 2019 | quote = Black people are eight times more likely to be in prison than whites. Home Office figures show that the incarceration rate for black people is 1,162 per 100,000, compared to 146 per 100,000 for whites. }}</ref>