incarceration

noun

in·car·cer·a·tion (ˌ)in-ˌkär-sə-ˈrā-shən

plural incarcerations

Synonyms of incarceration next

: confinement in a jail or prison : the act of imprisoning someone or the state of being imprisoned

Despite the drop in crime in past decades, rates of arrest and incarceration in New York City have not gone down.—

Robin Steinberg

To this day, the Supreme Court has not overruled its infamous Korematsu opinion of 1944, which validated our mass incarceration in deference to national security.—

George Takei

Examples of incarceration in a Sentence

he was bored and frustrated by his incarceration in the quarantine sentenced to six months of incarceration for dealing in narcotics

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Breslin ran on a platform focused on reducing violent crime and reducing incarceration for nonviolent offenders with substance abuse and mental health issues. —

Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024 Finally, Proposition 36 in California would increase penalties for drug possession and low-level theft, repealing parts of a 2014 ballot measure that reclassified these felonies as misdemeanors in an effort to reduce incarceration. —

Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024 Meanwhile, advocates focused on reducing mass incarceration and addressing racial disparities in the judicial system pushed states to begin decriminalizing marijuana and revising the sentences for people serving time for it. —

Marin Cogan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024 Gascón has countered by arguing that Hochman wants to return to mass incarceration and pull back on police reform and accountability. —

James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for incarceration