Wikipedia, "House Arrest" ([Internet, 2018-11-21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_arrest))
USG: while house arrest can be applied to criminal cases when prison does not seem an appropriate measure, the term is often applied to the use of house confinement as a measure of repression by authoritarian governments against political dissidents
Wikipedia, "House Arrest" ([Internet, 2018-11-21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_arrest))