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
• 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
• In that case, he was sentenced to 4.6 years of incarceration, followed by three years of supervised release.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Another possible explanation for the gender gaps in Philly, Atlanta and Baltimore is mass incarceration, which has removed hundreds of thousands of men from Black neighborhoods.
  — Noah Bressner, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
• For example, those who distribute fentanyl, meth, heroin and other drugs often warrant incarceration.
  — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024