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Arleo, the federal judge in Newark, N.J., said she had no power to review or oversee the bankruptcy process or incarcerate individuals unless they are charged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

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

The West Virginia corrections department incarcerates about 10,000 people on a typical day, while the federal system houses more than 150,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025

Those numbers, however, don't amount to much in the grand scheme, given the rate at which Louisiana "incarcerates and prosecutes and entangles people in the criminal legal system left and right every day," Romero said.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024

It isn’t clear why she was serving her sentence at Hiland, which typically incarcerates state prisoners.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

The jail historically incarcerates almost exclusively Black and Brown people and is currently more than 90 percent people of color, she said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023

The frost which imprisons the alligator in the Mississippi as effectually cuts him off from food and action as the drought which incarcerates the crocodile in the sun-burnt clay of a Ceylon tank.

From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Sir James Emerson Tennent

He was separated from his young son and spent more than 18 years incarcerated, all while maintaining his innocence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

The US Census Bureau forecasts that by 2030, at least one-third of the incarcerated population will be over 50 years old.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Louisiana established its fund in 2005 and today is one of 39 states, in addition to the District of Columbia, that compensate the wrongfully incarcerated.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Our criminal records will always be searchable, so formerly incarcerated people have to be extremely careful of how we’re presenting our digital selves.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Judge David De Pas said as he delivered the verdict that "the state of health of the main protagonists ethically prohibits incarcerating anyone".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025

“You’ve got a state that has this historical infrastructure of detaining and incarcerating people in these rural areas of Louisiana that are now emptying out and becoming available,” López said.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2025

“Is there a willingness to concede that incarcerating someone with dementia,” she asks, “is, maybe, questionable?”

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

“This is not coercing people, this is not ticketing or incarcerating people,” Bass said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

The collateral consequences of incarcerating women are significant.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson