<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence . Only those with a house are allowed to be sentenced to arrest in their house . Travel is usually restricted, if allowed at all . House arrest is an alternative to being in a prison while pre-trial or sentenced . </P> <P> 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 . In that case, typically, the person under house arrest does not have access to any means of communication . If electronic communication is allowed, conversations will most likely be monitored . With some electronic monitoring units, the conversations of prisoners can be directly monitored via the unit itself . </P>

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