How to Use carceral in a Sentence

carceral

adjective

• Maybe this left-wing Rhodes Scholar was the man to beat back the carceral state.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• The mug shot is a vestige of the carceral system that comes to the artist preaestheticized.
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• Yet in her critique of the carceral system, Davis has always been far ahead of the curve.
  — Andy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2022
• The George Floyd protests have bolstered the movement to dismantle the carceral state.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• Post-release, those that cycle in and out of the carceral system have worse health outcomes.
  — Ambar Castillo, STAT, 23 Nov. 2022
• Also, a lot of my work is thinking about the carceral space more broadly, so not just prisons.
  — Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• This kicked off Danny’s long career in the carceral system.
  — Longreads, 4 Apr. 2022
• But a woman of her means, with her support network and her lawyers, wasn’t destined to get trapped in the carceral system.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 July 2019
• Until this point in our story, John had never been in the carceral system.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• Raq Rarest is one of many pages that uploaded rappers’ brushes with the carceral state.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
• Glassed-in entrances have replaced the old carceral doorways.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Edmond’s fate speaks to our current debate over America’s carceral state and the role the war on drugs has played in building it.
  — David Farber, Twin Cities, 1 Oct. 2019
• What does the carceral state mean for our communities and mean for solutions and mean for justice?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2021
• Early scenes of Eunice at school capture a lecture about carceral states, touching on the violent one in the U.S.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
• Even before this past week, carceral institutions have been in the news as the prison and jail boom of the past forty years has intensified the damage of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  — Jack Norton, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2020
• The obvious, if unspoken, truth is that the carceral state of the US -- the largest in the world-- prevents us from realizing our full growth potential.
  — Robert Rooks, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
• It was accompanied by funding for local police that helped to swell the carceral state.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
• Today, the 36-year-old L.A. rapper has yet to commit that sweltering carceral nightmare to record.
  — Max Bell, SPIN, 29 Apr. 2022
• This collective endeavor to live free unfolds in the confines of the carceral landscape.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2019
• Caught in the double bind of toxic masculinity and a racist revolving-door carceral system, where does the buck stop?
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• How many people would never needlessly end up in the carceral system for stealing pocket change or a pair of socks?
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2022
• Onscreen, the show advanced story lines about labor exploitation and the carceral state; transgender rights and the Movement for Black Lives.
  — Tanisha C. Ford, Time, 28 Nov. 2022
• If Rikers Island has come to symbolize the cruelty of the carceral system, what’s built in its wake could help signal a way forward.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 19 June 2020
• In several paintings, the forms of prison architecture loom on the horizon, a reminder of the carceral state’s intrusions on Black life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Malcolm X came on the scene challenging police brutality and the violence of the carceral state.
  — Zaheer Ali, Time, 19 Nov. 2021
• In his story for T, writer at large Adam Bradley visits with the artists making work about (and sometimes within) the American carceral system.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Instead, our pain is used to bolster policing and carceral approaches.
  — ELLE, 17 Mar. 2022
• Through Peace’s story, Ejiofor explores the violent impact of the carceral state and the fraught interdependence of a father and his son.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
• Castro has not outlined how this new prison will overcome systemic issues that have plagued the country’s existing carceral system.
  — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 20 June 2024
• But those can seem like exceptions, carceral deviations from the uncoercive norm.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024