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incarcerated

adjective as in captive

adjective as in imprisoned

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adjective as in jailed

verb as in behind bars

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The victims of the alleged identity theft included incarcerated Californians and U.S. citizens who did not reside within California, according to the U.S.

He pointed to statistics showing that the number of incarcerated people released to immigration authorities fell to 820 in the last year of his tenure, from the more than 7,800 in 2013, the year before his election.

Folt also cited “of special significance” her efforts to rectify the university’s checkered past on racial justice — offering honorary degrees to 33 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II who were denied the chance to continue their USC studies, stripping the name of eugenicist Rufus von KleinSmid from a prominent building and renaming it after Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American leader, and honoring survivors of the Holocaust with a University Medallion.

California prison officials have proposed doubling wages for incarcerated workers, from a minimum of 8 cents an hour to a minimum of 16 cents an hour.

Federal policy, including under the Trump administration, has allowed incarcerated transgender people to receive gender-affirming medical care.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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