incarceration
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Humanitarian groups have harshly criticized the transfers, saying they put migrants at risk of incarceration and inhumane treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The government meanwhile said 131 people had been granted "alternative measures from incarceration," under the "Program for Peace and Democratic Coexistence."
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The documentary traces Manson to his troubled childhood and almost constant incarceration in youth facilities and jails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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. 8, 2026
And so they came to know the strange rules of their incarceration.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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
The Turin daily La Stampa spearheaded the collection of 300,000 signatures against what it decried as “unjust incarcerations, torture, death sentences of those in Iran demonstrating peacefully to change their own country.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
The move falls in line with Newsom’s platform of reducing recidivism through educational opportunities and mental health programs instead of tough-on-crime laws that have led to mass incarcerations in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Two “lifers,” locked up together indefinitely in Shawshank prison, form a bond that transcends decades of their lives and, ultimately, their own incarcerations in this heart-wrenching adaptation of a novella by Stephen King.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 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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