custodial
IPA: kʌstˈoʊdiʌɫ
adjective
- Providing protection, care, supervision or guarding.
- Of, pertaining to or providing custody, especially of a child.
- Providing punishment by incarceration.
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Examples of "custodial" in Sentences
- One main issue was short-term custodial sentencing.
- And that's before you even mention long-term custodial care.
- BNY Mellon provided the pension funds with what are known as "custodial" and back-office financial services.
- Typically, James would be given a detention and training order (DTO), in other words a custodial sentence, for around four months.
- The right way is called the custodial account; the wrong way is to do what all too many parents and grandparents do—open a joint account.
- Mr Thornhill said: We feel very strongly that short term custodial sentences must be available and available for those who continue to offend, particularly violent offences.
- "But whilst short-term custodial sentences are still part of statute they are a proper sentence and it is the responsibility of governors to apply the sentence imposed by the court."
- "[O] nce defendant was physically taken into custody and handcuffed, the potential for coercion was as great as that which inheres in custodial interrogation by a police officer, and ... administration of the Miranda warnings was required to dispel that potential coercion in order for defendant's statement to be admissible in a criminal trial."
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