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That clip, which he posted on Facebook in May 2018, was a then-rare personal account of the indoctrination program, which by that point had incarcerated at least hundreds of thousands of people.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2019

State security raided the homes of all the men it had incarcerated the first time around, searching for the escapee.

From Time • Jul. 12, 2011

They told us it was young G—— M——, the son of our most vindictive enemy, of that debauched old sinner who had incarcerated me in St. Lazare, and Manon in the Hospital.

From Manon Lescaut by Prévost, Abbé

A criminal of Novgorod, feeling himself aggrieved by the authorities of that city, who had incarcerated him for a time, wrote a letter offering to place the city under Polish protection.

From Strange Stories from History for Young People by Eggleston, George Cary