incarceration
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My subject area is U.S. history—the built environment, public memory, the American South, and more recently the history of mass incarceration.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
The Foreign Office says it will keep working to get them safely back to the UK, calling their incarceration appalling and unjustified.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
And pretrial and posttrial diversion programs — where someone undergoes treatment in lieu of incarceration — would also need the cooperation of the court system, which the mayor does not control.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Speaking to the BBC, dressed in worn-out clothes and bathroom slippers, he sounds stressed and bitter as he recalls his incarceration.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing incarceration
Just Mercy
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