incarcerate
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Today, it costs $133,000 a year to incarcerate a person in California, a figure that has gone up dramatically in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2025
States that build more prisons incarcerate more people.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2024
We can’t arrest, incarcerate and punish our way out of this complex problem.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024
She had a difficult childhood, being placed as a teenager in Dublin in one of the notorious former Magdalene laundries, originally set up to incarcerate young girls deemed to be promiscuous.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2023
“I see they spared no expense to incarcerate us,” I say.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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