reimprisonmentn.

1798 Invasion II. viii. 79 I even could scarcely help regarding my re-imprisonment..as a punishment inflicted upon me, for yielding so inconsiderately.

1846 Graham's Mag. June 261/2 After several releases and re-imprisonments, still growing madder and madder, he was at length burned alive, by a most iniquitous sentence.

1888 Harvard Law Rev. 2 182 The position of a condemned murderer, turned loose upon the community, subject to reimprisonment and execution in the event of drinking liquor, would be anomalous and absurd.

1912 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 2 875 He is a source of heavy expense to the public for protection against him, for his recapture, retrial, and re-imprisonment.

1960 P. W. Tappan Crime, Justice & Correction ii. xvi. 471 Dangerous and repetitive offenders could be held long enough to assure community protection and would be subject to control and reimprisonment if necessary.

2008 Townsville (Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 7 June 46 There was a high rate of reimprisonment among Aboriginal women, which underlined the shortcomings of jail as a means of fighting crime and reforming offenders.