Usually means: Imprisonment imposed by a court.
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  1. custodial sentence: Collins English Dictionary
  2. custodial sentence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. Custodial sentence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. custodial sentence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. custodial sentence, Custodial sentence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Definitions from Wikipedia (Custodial sentence)

noun:  A custodial sentence is a judicial sentence, imposing a punishment consisting of mandatory custody of the convict, either in prison or in some other closed therapeutic or educational institution, such as a reformatory, (maximum security) psychiatry or drug detoxification (especially cold turkey).


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