incarceration

[ UK /ɪnkˌɑːsəɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˌkɑɹsɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being imprisoned
    his ignominious incarceration in the local jail
    he was held in captivity until he died
    he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
    the imprisonment of captured soldiers
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How To Use incarceration In A Sentence

  • Non-representative incarceration of distinct ethnic groups or nationalities.
  • High rates of incarceration is a socio-economic necessity. Matthew Yglesias » Adventures in Interest-Group Politics
  • Young people are especially vulnerable to psychiatric abuse and involuntary incarceration because as minors their legal rights are limited.
  • We chat for 45 minutes, touching on atonement, forgiveness and incarceration.
  • But, above all, what would the artists of the nineteenth century have thought of their permanent incarceration in a state museum — those painters and sculptors so much more familiar to us by their frequentation of the café, the bar, the brothel, and through their ringing declarations of independence? The Artist and the Museum
  • The United States recently earned the dubious distinction of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.
  • In between reports from CNN of Paris Hilton's impending subtopian incarceration (in a section of Los Angeles 'Century Regional Detention Center reserved for celebrities, public officials, police officers and other high-profile inmates, in a cell shared with a “reckless driver”) ‚ and Lindsay Lohan's upcoming 21st birthday bacchanalia (in Las Vegas, right after spending 30 days at the celebrity architecture du jour — the rehab center), we heard reports of the jet-set TB-infected Atlanta lawyer quarantined in Denver (an accidental celebrity in a rehab center of a different kind, as it were), flown there yesterday with an escort of federal marshals. Air TB
  • These judgments would not have exonerated Wilkinson; the crimes to which he pled guilty would have led to a very long incarceration, probably imprisonment for the rest of his life. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
  • It's hard to compare crime rates -- much less the underlying criminal propensities of various segments of the population -- across jurisdictions with different incarceration rates. Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The onset age for most serious mental illnesses is between 16-28 (or there abouts), and with the exception of depression (which is unlikely to result in incarceration alone), it strikes males and females in roughly the same proportions. Matthew Yglesias » Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited
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