incarcerates
- present tense form of incarcerate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The West Virginia corrections department incarcerates about 10,000 people on a typical day, while the federal system houses more than 150,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
Those numbers, however, don't amount to much in the grand scheme, given the rate at which Louisiana "incarcerates and prosecutes and entangles people in the criminal legal system left and right every day," Romero said.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024
The U.S. incarcerates so many in its 1,700 prisons that it held the dubious distinction of being the world leader in incarceration for 30 years.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2024
The researchers found a prison system hostile to the needs of the people it incarcerates.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
The frost that imprisons the alligator in the Mississippi as effectually cuts it off from food and action as the drought which incarcerates the crocodile in the sun-burnt clay of a Ceylon tank.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
