 About 5,500 objectors were imprisoned, most charged with refusal to attend a medical examination as a necessary preliminary to call-up after being refused exemption, and some charged with non-compliance with the terms of conditional exemption.A further 1,000 were court-martialled by the armed forces and sent to military detention barracks or civil prisons.Differently from the First World War, most sentences were relatively short, and there was no pattern of continually repeated sentences.