incarceration
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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
After a three-week trial, I was acquitted on four counts and convicted on two, after which a judge sentenced me to a 16-month term of incarceration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
He called a Times reporter during his incarceration and said he had been arrested for damaging a bench near the beach shortly after his return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We hope then to be able to bring Michael before the Court of Appeal and for him to regain his freedom after all these years of incarceration," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
“We hope the state will focus more on preparing him for the world beyond incarceration than on punishing him.”
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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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
As Harrell’s plan is developed should we not examine the taxpayer cost of increased incarcerations that could be avoided?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Two “lifers,” locked up together indefinitely in Shawshank prison, form a bond that transcends decades of their lives and, ultimately, their own incarcerations in this heart-wrenching adaptation of a novella by Stephen King.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
Of course there had been arrests and incarcerations, and the "Intransi- geant" and the "Rappel" were filled with the echoes of the explosion.
From A Little Tour in France by Henry James
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