How to Use decarceration in a Sentence

decarceration

noun

• Like the idea of decarceration or our leaders of tomorrow.
  — Robert Morast, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• Because of the virus, such decarceration efforts suddenly made speedy progress.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
• Other researchers aim to document the effects of the speedy decarceration on public safety.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
• There’s also a feeling among some on the ground that local politicians are not prosecuting crimes harshly enough as a result of a push for decarceration and not wanting to appear too tough on crime.
  — Josiah Bates, Time, 7 Oct. 2022
• The results of depolicing and decarceration are already visible on the street, and from San Francisco to Baltimore, voters have noticed.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Boudin, like others in his cohort, promised to work to reform the criminal-justice system by focusing on, among other tactics, decarceration and addressing root causes of crime.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• In the realm of incarceration, the discussion has moved from strategies for decarceration to the possibility of abolition.
  — Amna A. Akbar, The New York Review of Books, 2 June 2020
• In recent decades imprisonment rates have been falling, mainly because of successful crime reduction, though the decarceration movement has played a role.
  — Barry Latzer, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
• The authors provided eight policy recommendations for state officials, with decarceration strategies at the top of the list.
  — Alleen Brown, The New Republic, 1 July 2023
• Because of the high risk of contagion in overcrowded prisons, mass decarceration has been advocated by public health experts since the beginning of the pandemic, and has shown not to pose risks for the community, says Reinhart.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 12 Aug. 2021
• But that doesn’t square with the serious decisions that came before this: decarceration, prioritization for the vaccines, and expenditure of resources to goad prisoners to queue up for the vaccine.
  — Chandra Bozelko, STAT, 20 Nov. 2021
• As decarceration orders lag, vaccinations are all the more essential.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 12 Aug. 2021
• Initial studies suggest decarceration has lowered infection rates in some jails.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
• Boudin has received national media attention over the past year for his decarceration policies and sometimes controversial public statements about high-profile crimes.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• But growing prison abolitionist activism has made decarceration a viable solution now for the deepening crisis at Rikers.
  — Esther Wang, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• The criminal justice system has moved toward decarceration, but people coming out of custody are almost 10 times more likely to experience homelessness.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022
• The honorees were selected by 10 community groups involved in re-entry, criminal justice reform, or decarceration work.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2021
• As a thought leader and pioneer, Van Buren has led efforts to catalyze architecture, design and real estate into tools for decarceration, garnering national and global recognition along the way.
  — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Hochul’s highhandedness encapsulated an attitude toward crime and punishment that has been shaped by the decarceration movement.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Nov. 2022
• A third of American adults have a criminal record and having one limits access to education, jobs, housing and other resources needed for independence, according to The Sentencing Project, a decarceration advocacy group.
  — Callum Wilson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
• In light of this fact, as a matter of both rational domestic policy and international responsibility, the U.S. must invest in a national decarceration program.
  — Eric Reinhart, STAT, 5 Oct. 2021
• Over the past decade, the movement for criminal-justice reform radicalized into advocacy for emptying prisons, or decarceration.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 5 Nov. 2022
• The commitment to decarceration and decriminalization persists.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 5 Nov. 2022
• Some jurisdictions are considering making permanent decarceration policies implemented during the pandemic, Reuters reports.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024