incarceration
the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The rate of incarceration has increased dramatically.
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It wasn’t hard for them to see a future marked by failure, violence, and maybe incarceration.
Traditional school isn’t always the way to go, and I wish my parents had seen that earlier | Kenneth R. Rosen | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostThe state is spending a lot less money on incarceration rates and spending more money on rehab centers.
Mariana van Zeller’s Take on Pimps and How to End the Drug War | Eugene Robinson | January 13, 2021 | OzyJoel Caston has filled many roles during his 26 years of incarceration, from youth mentor to published author to financial literacy instructor for his fellow inmates.
While incarcerated in the D.C. Jail, a candidate fights for an ANC seat | Julie Zauzmer | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostDiscretion in drug enforcement and sentencing means prohibition is among the leading causes of incarceration of people of color in the United States – an injustice many Americans on both sides of the aisle increasingly recognize.
Oregon Just Decriminalized All Drugs – Here’s Why Voters Passed This Groundbreaking Reform | LGBTQ-Editor | December 10, 2020 | No Straight NewsInterior design is a concept not often associated with the criminal justice system, but a growing number of architects and designers believe it could play a vital role in addressing mass incarceration and inequity.
How physical spaces can be designed to foster peacemaking in the criminal justice system | Aric Jenkins | December 9, 2020 | Fortune
I also want to alert you to the broader circumstances of my incarceration.
An American Marine in Iran’s Prisons Goes on Hunger Strike | IranWire | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “Magic.”
Future Makes Us Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew About Rap Artists | Luke Hopping | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEven when financial facilitators are arrested, incarceration is brief.
These crimes of fashion proved the men were feminine and thus gay and therefore worthy of incarceration.
Before my decade of incarceration, I had never seen a dead body.
This patient's incarceration in the asylum was due to a very striking manifestation of his paranoia querulans.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyHe had been a bheestee (water carrier) to the house of Ramabai up to the young banker's incarceration.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrathWe stumbled down the jail stairway up which, three months before, we had been conducted to our long incarceration in the cage.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempAt first I imagined that my laundress had permitted some stranger to occupy my rooms during my incarceration.
The following night, the annoyance, which had ceased during her incarceration, recommenced with double fury.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James Grant
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