How to Use incarceration in a Sentence

incarceration

noun

• His health, poor to begin with, took a dive with the stress of incarceration.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The pardon would leave Aung San Suu Kyi to serve 27 years of incarceration.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 1 Aug. 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
• The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate.
  — Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rather, fiscal pressures forced the state to cut its spending — and treatment’s much less costly than incarceration.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• West continues to be outspoken against mass incarceration, one of the points on his platform.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 19 July 2023
• On top of these dynamics, add President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs, which led to longer sentences and higher fines, and the explosive growth of mass incarceration.
  — Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
• When their incarceration ended, the Kodas returned to find that their prime property and equipment had been sold.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• The United States holds the unfortunate distinction of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.
  — Guest Columnist, cleveland, 30 July 2023
• El Salvador now has the world’s highest incarceration rate.
  — David Shortell, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• But Jelly Roll’s civic passions — born from his own story, which includes substance abuse and incarceration — set him apart in the current structure.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 27 June 2023
• Key’s more anguished figures also feel the tug of tethers, often to bleak systems of incarceration.
  — Stephen Kearse, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Maryland has one of the highest rates of long-term incarceration for Black men in the country, according to the Justice Policy Institute.
  — Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 14 Jan. 2024
• Right now, so much of the incarceration and trauma winds up being vicarious through my puppy.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• No one predicted Trump would be forced to serve an incarceration sentence before his appeal ran out.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
• Louisiana has among the highest incarceration rates per capita in the world.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Bass pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute and was sentenced to five years of incarceration.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2023
• The proceeding to undo 17 years of wrongful incarceration took less than five minutes.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• For their insight and their struggle, they have often been met with persecution, incarceration, and death.
  — Alberto C. Medina, The New Republic, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024