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incarceration

noun as in imprisonment

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Spolin worked for the Bronx district attorney’s office before moving to L.A. and launching a practice focused on representing inmates under a raft of laws meant to reduce mass incarceration.

She focused on alternatives to incarceration and promised to prosecute police misconduct.

While Democratic presidents have expanded the incarceration and deportation complex in the last two decades, Trump's first-term record and second-term proposals represent a massive and unprecedented escalation.

From Salon

He's represented many young people and argues more money needs to go into schooling than the prison system, to prevent incarceration in the first place.

From BBC

“I don’t think a judge would give a person under those sentences an incarceration sentence.”

From BBC

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

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