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incarceration::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | captivity, immurement, imprisonment |
| Type of | confinement |
| Has types | durance, internment, life imprisonment |
| Derivation | incarcerate |
his ignominious incarceration in the local jail.
Examples of incarceration
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At the current rate of incarceration, by the year 2020 everyone will be in jail.
From the sfgate.com
What he has done since his incarceration should not be taken into consideration.
From the cnn.com
To avoid incarceration, she had to prove she was cleaning up and making changes.
From the omaha.com
That status put a cap on any possible incarceration to a maximum of three years.
From the al.com
Where punishment is the goal, incarceration may be the only effective mechanism.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Serving professional athlete incarceration needs all over the metropolitan area.
From the usatoday.com
It's time to re-examine the policies that have made us the incarceration nation.
From the freep.com
It estimated that cities spent an average of $87 per day on incarceration costs.
From the huffingtonpost.com
One excuses the incarceration of innocent people, their disappearance and death.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Captivity: the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
- (incarcerate) imprison: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- Incarceration is the detention of a person in jail, typically as punishment for a crime. People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime, and different jurisdictions have differing laws governing the function of incarceration within an larger system of ...
- (Incarcerate) A prison (from Old French prisoun) is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. ...
- (Incarcerated (album)) Incarcerated is the third studio album by American rapper Lil Boosie. It is to be released on September 28, 2010. And features appearences from Webbie, Foxx, Mouse on Tha Track, Lil' Phat, Lil Trill, & Shell. It will be his first album while he is Incacerated in prison.
- The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment; Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia; A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation
- (incarcerate) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law; To confine
- (incarcerate) To put into jail. To shut in; confine.
- (Incarcerate) To be jailed or held in a correctional facility
