incarceration
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Pearson has called for addressing the root causes of crime by improving schools and economic opportunities instead of a singular focus on incarceration.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Before 2026, the rule has been that if you were getting hormones at the time you’re incarcerated, you’d continue to get them during your incarceration.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
Before his incarceration, Magaña managed to keep his mental health struggles mostly contained with medication for years, Alejandra said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
That means he can avoid incarceration if he does not commit any crime during that two-year probationary period.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Family disruption wasn’t caused by incarceration, in other words; it was caused by actions of the individual that resulted in incarceration.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
The move falls in line with Newsom’s platform of reducing recidivism through educational opportunities and mental health programs instead of tough-on-crime laws that have led to mass incarcerations in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
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
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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