Incarcerate
verb
To put someone in prison or in another form of confinement.
The thief was incarcerated for his crimes.
Often appears as...
- incarcerated for
- incarcerated in
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Formal
verb
To confine or restrict someone, often in an institutional setting such as a hospital.
The patient was incarcerated in the psychiatric ward for his own safety.
Often appears as...
- incarcerated in hospital
- mentally incarcerated
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Formal
Technical
verb
To get trapped or caught in something. A term often used in medical context to describe a condition where a part of body gets trapped.
The hernia will require surgery if it becomes incarcerated.
Often appears as...
- incarcerated hernia
- incarcerated tissue
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To put someone in prison or in another form of confinement.
The thief was incarcerated for his crimes.
Often appears as...
- incarcerated for
- incarcerated in
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To confine or restrict someone, often in an institutional setting such as a hospital.
The patient was incarcerated in the psychiatric ward for his own safety.
Often appears as...
- incarcerated in hospital
- mentally incarcerated
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To get trapped or caught in something. A term often used in medical context to describe a condition where a part of body gets trapped.
The hernia will require surgery if it becomes incarcerated.
Often appears as...
- incarcerated hernia
- incarcerated tissue
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Judicial Context
Used in legal and crime-related contexts, often referring to a court's decision to put someone in prison.
The judge decided to incarcerate the defendant for ten years.
Pro Tip 2/3Severity Implication
Indicates a serious offense or crime, as not all violations lead to incarceration.
Due to the severity of the offense, the perpetrator was incarcerated.
Pro Tip 3/3Long-Term Confinement
Suggests a long-term loss of freedom, not just a temporary detainment.
After the trial, he was incarcerated and lost his freedom for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Judicial Context
Used in legal and crime-related contexts, often referring to a court's decision to put someone in prison.
The judge decided to incarcerate the defendant for ten years.
Pro Tip 2/3Severity Implication
Indicates a serious offense or crime, as not all violations lead to incarceration.
Due to the severity of the offense, the perpetrator was incarcerated.
Pro Tip 3/3Long-Term Confinement
Suggests a long-term loss of freedom, not just a temporary detainment.
After the trial, he was incarcerated and lost his freedom for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Judicial Context
Used in legal and crime-related contexts, often referring to a court's decision to put someone in prison.
The judge decided to incarcerate the defendant for ten years.
Pro Tip 2/3Severity Implication
Indicates a serious offense or crime, as not all violations lead to incarceration.
Due to the severity of the offense, the perpetrator was incarcerated.
Pro Tip 3/3Long-Term Confinement
Suggests a long-term loss of freedom, not just a temporary detainment.
After the trial, he was incarcerated and lost his freedom for years.
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How I learned to read --...
I soon learned that I had to take responsibility for my own actions. True, I grew up in a very complex environment, but I chose to commit crimes, and I had to own up to that. I had to take responsibility for that, and I did. I was building a curriculum that could teach incarcerated men
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Nalini Nadkarni: For the...
are incarcerated these people are kept away from nature as one of the consequences of their actions and that is something that I myself can hardly imagine but I thought that they might be great candidates for needing to learn about the importance of trees and forests my
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Designing for a more...
racial and gender oppression and what it's meant on my life especially the reality of me growing up in poverty being raised by my grandparents as well as during college having to temporarily raise my brothers and sisters do to my mother being incarcerated these life
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Bryan Stevenson: We need...
We have seven million people on probation and parole. And mass incarceration, in my judgment, has fundamentally changed our world. In poor communities, in communities of color, there is this despair, there is this hopelessness that is being shaped by these outcomes.
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We need to talk about an...
probation and parole and mass incarceration in my judgment has fundamentally changed our world in poor communities and communities of color there is this despair there is this hopelessness that is being shaped by these outcomes but one out of three
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Can you outsmart the...
Took them long enough! "He will serve out the rest of his term, but will never again be elected to a public office. Because of his widespread anti-communist influence, hundreds of people have been incarcerated, and thousands have lost their jobs."
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Alice Goffman: How we're...
and searched their pockets for drugs as they walked to class? Or had raided their frat parties in the middle of the night? Okay, you might say. But doesn't this high incarceration rate partly account for our really low crime rate?
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A Black man goes...
that diversity would be a force that would wipe them out. Now listen, I know what it is to fear for the fate of your people. Between crack, AIDS, gang violence, mass incarceration, gentrification, police shootings,
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What coronavirus means...
Otherwise, when you go below that level, there is no opportunity, and actually, the costliness of it, in the form of crimes and incarceration. Like, to bring it personal, our mission is to help high school kids
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Defending the ant nest...
The queen termite security wall is almost complete. She and the royal court are incarcerated but safe.
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How I learned to read --...
I soon learned that I had to take responsibility for my own actions. True, I grew up in a very complex environment, but I chose to commit crimes, and I had to own up to that. I had to take responsibility for that, and I did. I was building a curriculum that could teach incarcerated men
Video examples
Nalini Nadkarni: For the...
are incarcerated these people are kept away from nature as one of the consequences of their actions and that is something that I myself can hardly imagine but I thought that they might be great candidates for needing to learn about the importance of trees and forests my
Video examples
Designing for a more...
racial and gender oppression and what it's meant on my life especially the reality of me growing up in poverty being raised by my grandparents as well as during college having to temporarily raise my brothers and sisters do to my mother being incarcerated these life
Video examples
Bryan Stevenson: We need...
We have seven million people on probation and parole. And mass incarceration, in my judgment, has fundamentally changed our world. In poor communities, in communities of color, there is this despair, there is this hopelessness that is being shaped by these outcomes.
Video examples
We need to talk about an...
probation and parole and mass incarceration in my judgment has fundamentally changed our world in poor communities and communities of color there is this despair there is this hopelessness that is being shaped by these outcomes but one out of three
Video examples
Can you outsmart the...
Took them long enough! "He will serve out the rest of his term, but will never again be elected to a public office. Because of his widespread anti-communist influence, hundreds of people have been incarcerated, and thousands have lost their jobs."
Video examples
Alice Goffman: How we're...
and searched their pockets for drugs as they walked to class? Or had raided their frat parties in the middle of the night? Okay, you might say. But doesn't this high incarceration rate partly account for our really low crime rate?
Video examples
A Black man goes...
that diversity would be a force that would wipe them out. Now listen, I know what it is to fear for the fate of your people. Between crack, AIDS, gang violence, mass incarceration, gentrification, police shootings,
Video examples
What coronavirus means...
Otherwise, when you go below that level, there is no opportunity, and actually, the costliness of it, in the form of crimes and incarceration. Like, to bring it personal, our mission is to help high school kids
Video examples
Defending the ant nest...
The queen termite security wall is almost complete. She and the royal court are incarcerated but safe.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Remy Ma
American Musician
I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.
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Ty Dolla Sign
American Musician
For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.
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John Ensign
American Politician
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
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Kevin Gates
American Musician
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.
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Susan Burton
American Activist
Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should've been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.
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Patrisse Cullors
American Activist
What was most important, for me, is that I could share what I experience as a young person - in particular, what impact incarceration and policing had on my life and my family's life.
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Ja Rule
American Musician
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Kat Timpf
American Writer
Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and their families but also for society in general.
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George Takei
American Actor
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
Quote examples
Remy Ma
American Musician
I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.
Quote examples
Ty Dolla Sign
American Musician
For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.
Quote examples
Stacey Abrams
American Politician
The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.
Quote examples
John Ensign
American Politician
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
Quote examples
Kevin Gates
American Musician
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.
Quote examples
Susan Burton
American Activist
Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should've been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.
Quote examples
Patrisse Cullors
American Activist
What was most important, for me, is that I could share what I experience as a young person - in particular, what impact incarceration and policing had on my life and my family's life.
Quote examples
Ja Rule
American Musician
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Quote examples
Kat Timpf
American Writer
Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and their families but also for society in general.
Quote examples
George Takei
American Actor
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
Example 1 of 10
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