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incarceration

[in-kahr-suh-ray-shuhn] / ɪnˌkɑr səˈreɪ ʃən /
NOUN
imprisonment
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And then making it harder to even fight when you are fighting to stay in the United States, or to at least avoid deportation to a country where you might face further incarceration.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

Did you know that incarceration rates and racial disparities in the prison population declined in the U.S. for the first two decades of the 21st century?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"We frequently say that a person coming from a long period of incarceration can be 60 but have the health status of a 90-year-old," Skoczulek said.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The government meanwhile said 131 people had been granted "alternative measures from incarceration," under the "Program for Peace and Democratic Coexistence."

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

They knew the jails were not celled enough for all of them, so if it meant a few days’ incarceration, what did it matter?

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

He himself hadn’t known much about the incarcerations until he was studying at the Harvard Kennedy school in 1988, when President Reagan signed a historic law about reparations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

Another option would be to allow a plea of “not guilty by reason of dementia” or to enact sentencing limits similar to those protecting juveniles from lifelong incarcerations.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

The Turin daily La Stampa spearheaded the collection of 300,000 signatures against what it decried as “unjust incarcerations, torture, death sentences of those in Iran demonstrating peacefully to change their own country.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2023

Street’s picaresque stunts, and occasional incarcerations, do not occur in a vacuum.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

The data in this report are restricted to incarcerations in State or Federal prison.

From Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001 by Thomas P. Bonczar




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