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incarceration

[ in-kahr-suh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure:

    The rate of incarceration has increased dramatically.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of incarceration1

First recorded in 1530–40; from French ԳéپDz, from Latin Գپō-, stem of Գپō, equivalent to Գ(ܲ), past participle of Գ “to imprison” + -ion ( def ); incarcerate ( def )
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Methods of discipline included “whipping, beating, incarceration, and the withholding of food.”

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At the Legacy Museum, visitors experience 400 years of American history that includes enslavement, racial terrorism, and mass incarceration.

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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.

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The initial impulse came from my own curiosity around the ways that incarceration impacts families.

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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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