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incarceration

noun as in imprisonment

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A probation office, which oversees offenders during and after incarceration, separately recommended five to seven years in prison, according to Combs' court filings.

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But the United States’ punitive approach to incarceration clashes with the promise education holds for lower recidivism.

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Most significantly, Newsom is championing a new vision of incarceration and rehabilitation modeled after successful efforts in Norway and other places that centers on the simple truth that arresting people does not end crime.

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A decision on where to place Liebich will then be made at the start of incarceration.

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In truth, it was President Bill Clinton and the New Democrats who accelerated the country’s system of mass incarceration.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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