Synonyms for incarceration
in·car·cer·a·tion

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1. captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurementnoun

   the state of being imprisoned

   "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"

   Synonyms:
   internment, captivity, immurement, imprisonment, enslavement

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1. • Confinement

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1. glomnoun

   Submitted by Providence on July 18, 2023  

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1. incarcerationnoun

   Synonyms:
   IMPRISONMENT, confinement, commitment

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1. List of paraphrases for "incarceration":

   imprisonment, detention, prison, incarcerated, confinement, committal, internment, jailing, jail

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1. President Barack Obama:

   In too many places, black boys and black men, and Latino boys and Latino men, experience being treated different under the law, mass incarceration makes our country worse off and we need to do something about it.

2. Democratic State Assemblyman Albert Muratsuchi:

   I wanted to do something different and have California lead by example, while our nation's capital is hopelessly divided along party lines and President Trump is putting immigrant families and children in cages, the California Legislature with HR 77 will be issuing an official, bipartisan measure for its own actions taken that led to the incarceration of over 120,000 loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wire.

3. Carly Fiorina:

   If we continue to criminalize drug addiction, we're not treating it. And the system we have today is part of the problem now, not part of the solution, we now have the highest incarceration rates in the world. And the majority of people we have in prison are people like my daughter, Lori, struggling with addiction.

4. Chris Coons:

   I am concerned about comments that William Barr has made in the past that fail to appreciate the problems created by mass incarceration and the racial inequities in the criminal justice system, the President's nominee for attorney general should demonstrate in his hearing next week that he will fully and efficiently implement the First Step Act.

5. Larry Krasner:

   Our promise fundamentally was that we would focus on serious crime while bringing reform. We said we would do something about mass incarceration. We have cut the future years of incarceration in half.