incarceration
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Before incarceration, I was a member of Cincinnati’s city council for a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
He called a Times reporter during his incarceration and said he had been arrested for damaging a bench near the beach shortly after his return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We hope then to be able to bring Michael before the Court of Appeal, and for him to regain his freedom after all these years of incarceration," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
According to a report by the InSight Crime think tank, Guerrero made Tren de Aragua "what it is today during his incarceration at Tocoron."
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
She told him the story of her husband’s incarceration, and that she was coming to get him.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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Another option would be to allow a plea of “not guilty by reason of dementia” or to enact sentencing limits similar to those protecting juveniles from lifelong incarcerations.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
That’s an arrest rate for Yurok women roughly five times the rate of female incarcerations nationwide, said George, the University of California, Merced sociologist consulting with the tribe.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
Street’s picaresque stunts, and occasional incarcerations, do not occur in a vacuum.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
For almost a decade, the women protested the incarcerations by attending Mass at St. Rita’s Church in Havana each Sunday dressed in white.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2020
Excluded are prior incarcerations in local jails and juvenile facilities because of the lack of data needed to estimate the number of first admissions to these forms of correctional supervision.
From Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001 by Thomas P. Bonczar
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