incorrigibility

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Some were held on loitering charges, while others were detained over their perceived "incorrigibility."

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

The experience in states that require a finding of incorrigibility was different, she wrote.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2021

The “argument that the sentencer must make a finding of permanent incorrigibility is inconsistent with the court’s precedents,” Kavanaugh wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2021

Could a state, Chief Justice John Roberts asked, just tell a judge: “Here are the things you need to consider, and transient youth or incorrigibility is one of them?”

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2019

The warden and the clerk will smile over your letter, and drop it in the waste-basket, or will make it the basis of an adverse report against you to the Department,—insubordination, incorrigibility, insanity perhaps.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian