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incarceration
[ in-kahr-suh-rey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure:
The rate of incarceration has increased dramatically.
Word History and Origins
Origin of incarceration1
Example Sentences
Methods of discipline included “whipping, beating, incarceration, and the withholding of food.”
At the Legacy Museum, visitors experience 400 years of American history that includes enslavement, racial terrorism, and mass incarceration.
Life under the Assads had meant more than 50 years of disappearances, incarceration - and the civil war that began in 2011 had claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Syrians.
The initial impulse came from my own curiosity around the ways that incarceration impacts families.
Renewed 35 times by March 2025, it has led to mass incarceration and overcrowded prisons, where reports of abuse and neglect are common.
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