How to Use incarceration in a Sentence
incarceration
noun-
In the last few decades, women’s incarceration has grown at twice the rate of men.
— TIME, 9 May 2024 -
Although our incarceration rate leads the world, we’re inured to the irony that the land of the free is also the empire of the jailed.
— Ron Charles, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023 -
His health, poor to begin with, took a dive with the stress of incarceration.
— Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Instead, it’s given us the war on drugs and the highest incarceration rate in the world.
— Ana Zamora, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024 -
Three months later, the judge sentenced him to four months of incarceration and a $6,500 fine.
— Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 25 June 2024 -
The pardon would leave Aung San Suu Kyi to serve 27 years of incarceration.
— Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2023 -
That child doesn’t need incarceration; the child needs help.
— Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2023 -
The children in those homes, Heimov said, describe a life that can look like incarceration.
— Kathryn Hurd, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023 -
Some council members have raised concern that parts of the bill might return D.C. to the days of mass incarceration.
— Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 6 July 2023 -
There’s no shortage of demand for Mr. Muñoz’s work in El Salvador, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
— Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023 -
With the official dismissal of the charges, Jimenez no longer runs the risk of going back into incarceration for that case.
— Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023 -
So, her thing on mass incarcerations is coming back to haunt her.
— Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 -
El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
— Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 July 2023 -
The country once known for having the world’s highest murder rate now has the world’s highest incarceration rate—about double that of the U.S.
— Santiago Pérez, WSJ, 10 July 2023 -
But as Dawkins’ incarceration wore on, things began to fall apart.
— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2024 -
The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate.
— Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023 -
In 2010, Pearlman had a stroke which led to a number of health problems during his incarceration.
— Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024 -
The film artfully weaves the history of mass incarceration of Black people by the war on weed and the resistance to that war by musicians.
— Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024 -
Each of the counts against Trump carries a maximum sentence of four years incarceration.
— Graham Kates, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2024 -
It is seen as part of a growing backlash across the country against prosecutors who have pushed for an end to mass incarceration.
— Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023 -
At this point, the only way to protect the public from Darrick Bell is an extensive term of incarceration.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2024 -
All too soon, the men have changed back into their green uniforms and returned to the daily tedium and terror of incarceration.
— Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024 -
The parties also would agree that Smith would be sentenced to incarceration in county jail for 12 months, Frezza said.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2023 -
Over those same 50 years, our penchant for incarceration has grown.
— Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023 -
And one of the protests resulted in a 30-day incarceration at the Howard County Detention Center.
— Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024 -
Seefried came to Washington on Jan. 6 with his wife; his 21-year-old son, Hunter, who was sentenced in December to two years of incarceration; and his son’s girlfriend.
— Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023 -
The state has one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation and has the third highest Black-white imprisonment disparity in the country.
— Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024 -
During his more than three decades of incarceration, Sherman Wright has seen men who have killed come and go from Kansas prisons, his sister said.
— Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024 -
These young males have no moral compass or fears, which is exacerbated by the lack of incarceration when convicted.
— Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2024 -
The use of home confinement is imperative in lowering costs of incarceration and the BOP is not maximizing that.
— Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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