incarcerated
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California’s elderly parole program allows inmates 50 and older to qualify for a parole suitability hearing if they have been incarcerated for at least 20 continuous years.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Advocates say that others have secured court orders for their release but remain incarcerated.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
Messina Denaro continued to receive cancer treatment while incarcerated at L'Aquila, but he was later moved to hospital in August that year, under heavy security.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
People who are incarcerated have been made invisible, and these are generally public institutions with no transparency at all.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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