incarcerate

Example Sentences

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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

Two dozen states now provision free menstrual products to those they incarcerate, while a growing number also mandate them in homeless shelters, community colleges, public universities and government buildings.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

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