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  • While incarcerated, he went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, got his GED, and taught GED classes to other inmates for twenty-five dollars a month.   (source)
    incarcerated = in prison
  • Wade Lanier spent some time on Marvis: his criminal record, convictions, incarceration.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment (being sent to prison)
  • Miss Christian is incarcerated without bond.   (source)
    incarcerated = put in jail
  • It was no mistake that Disney retold tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White—all of which dealt with the incarceration of the sacred feminine.†   (source)
  • The HVAC patrol, which had been called in on the pretense of humane incarceration, was working so slowly that Jordan figured they'd master their trade just in time for the snow to start falling again outside.†   (source)
  • The prospect would be of a thousand, or thousands of incarcerated nights, sleeplessly turning over the past, waiting for his life to resume, wondering if it ever would.†   (source)
  • Who are these people, and why do I have to be incarcerated with them on a daily basis?†   (source)
  • We should have her incarcerated.†   (source)
  • The boys he'd been arrested with had also been incarcerated, but for some reason, not at the location where Sampson was held.†   (source)
  • I followed him to church; as he said Mass in a cemetery and to incarcerated prisoners; and as he traveled throughout Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to pick up donated food, clothing, and other items.†   (source)
  • Kim is now telling me about being rescued from certain incarceration by Willow.†   (source)
  • How can I claim my book has changed lives when my own son is incarcerated?†   (source)
  • The so-called confession in the Penitentiary, of which Mrs. Moodie has given such a colourful description, took place after several years of incarceration, and during the long regime of Warden Smith.†   (source)
  • THE HOOSEGOW Premium incarceration and restraint services We welcome busloadsl There are a couple of other MetaCop cars in the lot, and an Enforcer paddybus parked across the back, taking up ten consecutive spaces.†   (source)
  • At which point, urged on by an outraged American media, the military would probably incarcerate me under the jail, never mind in it.†   (source)
  • He did not seem terribly troubled by his incarceration, although he complained of its injustice.†   (source)
  • All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. So the opportunity to be incarcerated was just too good to resist.†   (source)
  • Then they were stripped and given a prison uniform to wear, with a number on the front and back that was to serve as their only means of identification for the duration of their incarceration.†   (source)
  • Earlier in their prison lives they had spent some time incarcerated where we were now going to school.†   (source)
  • They knew the jails were not celled enough for all of them, so if it meant a few days' incarceration, what did it matter?†   (source)
  • They found a public notary there who said he would certify a document that said that Orest Mercator spent so many days incarcerated with these venomous reptiles blah blah blah.†   (source)
  • By the end of the second day, the number of arrests had increased and nearly two thousand women were incarcerated, many of them remanded to the Fort to await trial.†   (source)
  • Jake was enthralled by the whole idea of my temporary incarceration, and the reasons behind it.†   (source)
  • To begin with, she's incarcerated.†   (source)
  • SOON WE WERE AT the green gates of the prison everyone called Kerchele, a corruption of the Italian word carcere, or incarcerate.†   (source)
  • Now, both John Senior and his son "boozed"; indeed, John Junior was an often incarcerated alcoholic.†   (source)
  • I have the usual share of kooky or annoying relatives, but nobody's been incarcerated or institutionalized.†   (source)
  • Lastly, prison is hardly a cheap solution: it costs about $25,000 a year to keep someone incarcerated.†   (source)
  • 'He had also been incarcerated for narcotics distribution and armed robbery.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you do not fully understand the circumstances of the ymbrynes' incarceration.†   (source)
  • I didn't think they were going to understand my adolescent fascination with the underbelly of society, my involvement in international drug trafficking, or my impending incarceration.†   (source)
  • But this did not satisfy Cooper, whose grimace indicated a clear belief that incarcerated, malnourished teenagers should not grow taller than their elders.†   (source)
  • The top one read: THE DOCTOR IS: INCARCERATED.†   (source)
  • Four days since Gazzy and Iggy had blown a hole in the side of the Itex headquarters, thus springing us from our latest diabolical incarceration.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, the series took a decidedly more populist tack, featuring essays from cabdrivers, teachers, longshoremen, nurses, Pullman porters, incarcerated convicts, and, indeed, housewives.†   (source)
  • Only men were incarcerated at USDB.†   (source)
  • The subject of his recent incarceration came up, and he realized that everyone had heard only the part about his powerful temper, not about the waitress to whose aid he had come.†   (source)
  • Further, when my clients were incarcerated, it was left up to them to find counsel.†   (source)
  • Every Friday night while Paul was incarcerated, we got a collect call from a federal prison.†   (source)
  • That gets thrown around a lot in terms of whether we incarcerate terrorists, tap communications, what were allowed to do with our sexual organs.†   (source)
  • One of the stark facts of their lives in Enon is that during the Civil War Great-Grandfather Carden was taken prisoner and incarcerated in Ohio on suspicion of being, as a Virginian, a Confederate sympathizer, and lost his eyesight in confinement.†   (source)
  • I had to say no. It was a book which I had longed to read but which, incarcerated like a mad strangler behind the wires of the locked shelves of the university library, had been denied me.†   (source)
  • Tak of the Archives was incarcerated for a time in the dungeons beneath Heaven.†   (source)
  • By a kind of fluke, a story too long to go into, he'd been released at the end of three years, his freedom bought for him by the United States Government, part of a project at that time to rescue incarcerated Jewish intellectuals.†   (source)
  • Anthony Ray Hinton had been locked down in solitary confinement at Holman Correctional Facility for three decades in a 5 x 7 cell just down the hall from the room where more than fifty other condemned people were executed during Mr. Hinton's period of incarceration.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • Papaw spoke with the police officer about where to find his incarcerated daughter.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
  • I was encouraged by the fact that nationwide the rate of mass incarceration had finally slowed.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • He admitted fears and doubts he hadn't told me about when he was incarcerated.   (source)
    incarcerated = in prison
  • Today we have the highest rate of incarceration in the world.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • The collateral consequences of incarcerating women are significant.   (source)
    incarcerating = imprisoning (putting in prison)
  • Approximately 75 to 80 percent of incarcerated women are mothers with minor children.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • The collateral consequences of mass incarceration have been equally profound.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • The fourth institution is mass incarceration.   (source)
  • But there was another industry in town—incarceration.   (source)
  • "The fact that I'm incarcerated doesn't require me to live like an animal:" he said.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (in prison or jail)
  • These incarcerated men, before they'd even reached a point of basic maturity, had flagrantly—and tragically—squandered the few opportunities they'd had to contribute productively to something greater than themselves.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • Most recently, he served several years in prison for trying to buy jewelry at Macy's with a stolen check, and filed several lawsuits while incarcerated.   (source)
    incarcerated = in prison
  • He knew the pay would be lower than what he was making on the streets, but the work was steady and honest, and he would have more time to give his family without injury, death, or incarceration looming.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment (being sent to prison)
  • Cofield sued McDonald's and Burger King for contaminating his body by cooking fries in pork fat, and he threatened to sue several restaurants for food poisoning—including the Four Seasons in New York City—all while he was incarcerated and unable to eat at any restaurants.   (source)
    incarcerated = in prison
  • I wondered what danger the caged men presented that they couldn't sit with the other incarcerated men on the benches.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • When Michael and I drove up to the gate, we could see incarcerated women hovering outside the prison entrance with no officers in view.   (source)
  • EJI's program was specifically developed for people who have spent many years in prison after being incarcerated when they were children.   (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
  • Vickie came from a poor white family, several of whose members were incarcerated; she enjoyed none of the status of Ronda Morrison.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
  • It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • At a talk I gave at a church months later, I spoke about Charlie and the plight of incarcerated children.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • The population most affected by this misguided law is formerly incarcerated women with children, most of whom were imprisoned for drug crimes.   (source)
  • The practice, which wasn't declared unconstitutional until 2002, was one of many degrading and dangerous punishments imposed on incarcerated people.   (source)
    incarcerated = people in prison
  • By the time he retired, he'd become the Court's most vocal critic of excessive punishment and mass incarceration.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • Courts have repeatedly found the prison unconstitutionally overcrowded, with almost twice the number of women incarcerated as it was designed to hold.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • Most incarcerated women—nearly two-thirds—are in prison for nonviolent, low-level drug crimes or property crimes.   (source)
  • The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.   (source)
  • After graduating from law school, I went back to the Deep South to represent the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned.   (source)
    incarcerated = people in prison
  • Incarcerated men would trap rats, poisonous spiders, and snakes they found inside the prison to pass the time and to keep safe.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.   (source)
    incarcerated = people in prison
  • Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (people in prison)
  • It wasn't until 2008 that most states abandoned the practice of shackling or handcuffing incarcerated women during delivery.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • I was escorted to a forty-by-forty-foot room where more than two dozen incarcerated men sat sadly while uniformed correctional staff buzzed in and out.   (source)
  • At this fourth hearing, Carol and I were busily trying to process papers and resolve the endless issues that had emerged to keep Mr. Carter and Mr. Caston incarcerated.   (source)
    incarcerated = in prison
  • The privatization of prison health care, prison commerce, and a range of services has made mass incarceration a money-making windfall for a few and a costly nightmare for the rest of us.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated.   (source)
  • By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the politics of fear and anger sweeping the country and fueling mass incarceration was turning its attention to children.   (source)
  • The numbers of incarcerated people with serious mental illness declined dramatically, while public and private mental health facilities emerged to provide care to the mentally distressed.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • State governments have been forced to shift funds from public services, education, health, and welfare to pay for incarceration, and they now face unprecedented economic crises as a result.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.   (source)
  • Charlie's grandmother had died a few months after she first called me, and his mother was still struggling after the tragedy of the shooting and Charlie's incarceration.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment (being sent to prison)
  • I realized even while I laughed that his unhappy childhood had been followed by unhappy, imprisoned teenage years followed by unhappy incarceration through young adulthood.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • When I arrived at Santa Rosa, I didn't encounter any staff who were people of color, although 70 percent of the men incarcerated there were black or brown.   (source)
    incarcerated = in prison or jail
  • We've given up on rehabilitation, education, and services for the imprisoned because providing assistance to the incarcerated is apparently too kind and compassionate.   (source)
    incarcerated = people in prison
  • One of the country's least-discussed postwar problems is how frequently combat veterans bring the traumas of war back with them and are incarcerated after returning to their communities.   (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
  • Angola evolved over time to have some excellent programs for incarcerated people who stayed out of trouble, and many of our clients took full advantage.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • If your family had lost a loved one to murder or had to suffer the anguish of rape or serious assault, your victimization might be ignored if you had loved ones who were incarcerated.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
  • One in every fifteen people born in the United States in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison; one in every three black male babies born in this century is expected to be incarcerated.   (source)
  • At the time of Walter's release, only ten states and the District of Columbia had laws authorizing compensation to people who have been wrongly incarcerated.   (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
  • Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated.   (source)
    incarcerated = people in prison
  • Nearly 65 percent had minor children living with them at the time of their arrest—children who have become more vulnerable and at-risk as a result of their mother's incarceration and will remain so for the rest of their lives, even after their mothers come home.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • One of the community leaders introduced me, and I went to the front of the church and began my talk about the death penalty, increasing incarceration rates, abuse of power within prisons, discriminatory law enforcement, and the need for reform.   (source)
  • With close to two hundred thousand women in jails and prisons in America and over a million women under the supervision or control of the criminal justice system, the incarceration of women has reached record levels.   (source)
  • I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of hope and humanity—seeds of restoration that come to astonishing life when nurtured by very simple interventions.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • Dr. Bernard Bryant testified that Myers told him "he did not commit the crime and that at the time he was incarcerated for the crime, he was threatened and harassed by the local police authorities into confessing he committed a crime."   (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
  • Never before had so much lobbying money been spent to expand America's prison population, block sentencing reforms, create new crime categories, and sustain the fear and anger that fuel mass incarceration than during the last twenty-five years in the United States.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and—perhaps—we all need some measure of unmerited grace.   (source)
  • No matter how many years an innocent person has been wrongly incarcerated, New Hampshire caps compensation at $20,000; Wisconsin has a $25,000 cap; Oklahoma and Illinois limit the total amount an innocent person can recover to under $200,000, even if the person has spent decades in prison.   (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
  • In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • For many years, violence was so bad at Angola that it was almost impossible to be incarcerated and not get disciplinaries—additional punishments or time tacked onto your sentence—due to conflicts with another inmate or staff.   (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
  • One of the first incarcerated women I ever met was a young mother who was serving a long prison sentence for writing checks to buy her three young children Christmas gifts without sufficient funds in her account.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • Mass incarceration has been largely fueled by misguided drug policy and excessive sentencing, but the internment of hundreds of thousands of poor and mentally ill people has been a driving force in achieving our record levels of imprisonment.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • I thought about how if Judge Robert E. Lee Key hadn't overridden the jury's verdict of life imprisonment without parole and imposed the death penalty, which brought the case to our attention, Walter likely would have spent the rest of his life incarcerated and died in a prison cell.   (source)
    incarcerated = in prison
  • We were assisting clients on death row, challenging excessive punishments, helping disabled prisoners, assisting children incarcerated in the adult system, and looking at ways to expose racial bias, discrimination against the poor, and the abuse of power.   (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned
  • Prison growth and the resulting "prison-industrial complex"—the business interests that capitalize on prison construction—made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to respond to just about any problem.   (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
  • Incarceration became the answer to everything—health care problems like drug addiction, poverty that had led someone to write a bad check, child behavioral disorders, managing the mentally disabled poor, even immigration issues generated responses from legislators that involved sending people to prison.   (source)
    incarceration = putting people in prison
  • Within seconds she realized their incarceration was actually their key to escape.†   (source)
  • We managed to survive temptation, incarceration, and distraction.†   (source)
  • She told him the story of her husband's incarceration, and that she was coming to get him.†   (source)
  • Many of the older Tribe members were also incarcerated or hard-core tecatos.†   (source)
  • We weren't old enough to be incarcerated there, but they didn't care about this.†   (source)
  • It would be, in effect, paying the government for incarcerating him for a month.†   (source)
  • In the weeks that followed, more than 1,200 men and women were incarcerated at Camp Greyhound.†   (source)
  • My sentence involved a fine and few months incarceration in county j ail.†   (source)
  • He seemed almost as worried by Zeitoun's incarceration as he had been by his disappearance.†   (source)
  • Any connection, no matter how specious, might be used to justify his incarceration and extend it.†   (source)
  • It is our belief that he is withholding information, and our office is in favor of incarceration.†   (source)
  • "It's group therapy," Warden Coyne had proudly explained, "but they're still incarcerated."†   (source)
  • A federal prisoner costs at least $30,000 a year to incarcerate, and females actually cost more.†   (source)
  • D. in criminology to doubt that keeping dangerous criminals incarcerated cuts crime.†   (source)
  • As such, they are free, and this court orders them to be discharged immediately from incarceration.†   (source)
  • This 'preferred incarceration' has left me less worried about that.†   (source)
  • At least they understood the official and unofficial rules of incarceration.†   (source)
  • He had been lying on his bunk in a cement cell, hungry and cold in the darkness, wondering how long he would be incarcerated.†   (source)
  • Our instructor told us to eat plenty, right through the weekend, but not to worry about sleep gear on Sunday afternoon, during which time we would be incarcerated in the classroom.†   (source)
  • One unusual aspect was that the suspect already was in custody, arrested seven months earlier for insurance fraud and now incarcerated in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison.†   (source)
  • This was to provide some cover if one of us were well enough to apply for a job while still incarcerated.†   (source)
  • Katherine dug deeper into the newspaper articles, every one of which related to the Solomon family—Peter's many successes, Katherine's research, their mother Isabel's terrible murder, Zachary Solomon's widely publicized drug use, incarceration, and brutal murder in a Turkish prison.†   (source)
  • I have had repeatedly to beat them away from my door, whilst informing them that Grace Marks has been incarcerated for a very good reason, namely the vicious acts which she has committed, and which were inspired by her degenerate character and morbid imagination.†   (source)
  • But whatever you may think of Dr. Jordan's professional opinion and I am well aware that his conclusions may be difficult to credit, for one not familiar with the practice of N euro-hypnosis, and who was not present at the events to which I allude — surely Grace Marks has been incarcerated for a great many years, more than sufficient to atone for her misdeeds.†   (source)
  • It would be exceedingly useful to me, in the formation of my professional opinion, if I were able to speak with those who knew Grace at the time of the — of the events in question, and who afterwards witnessed her comportment and behaviour in the Penitentiary, during the first years of her incarceration, and also in the Asylum.†   (source)
  • ...her exemplary conduct during the whole of her thirty years incarceration in the penitentiary the later portion of which she spent as a trusted inmate of the home of the Governor, and that so large a number of influential Gentlemen in Kingston should think that she merited and deserved a pardon, all tend to show that there is room for grave doubts as to her having been the awful female demon incarnate, that McDermott tried to make the public believe that she was.†   (source)
  • Most of the old-timers in prison, the pachucos of the 30s and 40s, were incarcerated because of chiva.†   (source)
  • FEMA was footing the bill for his incarceration, they said, and that of all the other prisoners from New Orleans.†   (source)
  • They were the incarcerated from the Jefferson Parish and Kenner jails—those who had been in jail before the storm.†   (source)
  • By naming him she was expanding this lie, the one being told by everyone involved in his incarceration thus far.†   (source)
  • When he was incarcerated there, he couldn't imagine what workers were available and ready to work long hours a day after the hurricane, but the answer makes a certain amount of sense.†   (source)
  • What if the prosecutors, hoping to justify Zeitoun's incarceration, tried to make a case against him—a connection, any distant connection, to some terrorist activity?†   (source)
  • She reached a producer and told her the story: her husband's incarceration, the call from Homeland Security, the stonewalling, the courts that didn't even exist.†   (source)
  • In spite of the fact that he'd been incarcerated for eleven years, Shay was still the most naive inmate I'd ever met.†   (source)
  • Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed truemettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.†   (source)
  • The leggy woman begins reciting Cedric's criminal history and various incarcerations, highlights from the forearm-thick folder, or "jacket," on inmate 158706.†   (source)
  • "Incarcerated," Leo said.†   (source)
  • Denying it, the witness said that once he'd gone to jail for driving without an operator's license, that burglary was the reason for his second incarceration, and the third, a ninety-day hitch in an Army stockade, had been the outcome of something that happened while he was a soldier: "We was on a train trip guard.†   (source)
  • One cold morning in July of 1969, three months after I learned of Winnie's incarceration, I was called to the main office on Robben Island and handed a telegram.†   (source)
  • This correlation exists even when controlling for a variety of factors that influence crime: a state's level of incarceration, number of police, and its economic situation.†   (source)
  • I left Gordon in the hallway, hunched over his cell phone, and headed downstairs to the holding cell where Shay was most likely still incarcerated.†   (source)
  • As Cedric Sr. watches his son meet successive challenges, he plods along-unhirable after two decades of incarceration-cutting a head or two a day and rooting around for something to do.†   (source)
  • Some students in the class also ended up in various realms of "the system"—the catchall term for incarceration, probation, parole, or police custody.†   (source)
  • This was no unassuming "shim" unfortunately incarcerated and trying to get along; Vanessa was a full-blown diva.†   (source)
  • I wanted initially to address the people of Paarl, who had been very kind to me during my incarceration, but the reception committee was adamant that that would not be a good idea: it would look curious if I gave my first speech to the prosperous white burghers of Paarl.†   (source)
  • Since Ruiz had fled the United States, Antonio had been forced by the court into incarceration with the tribesmen.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ruiz and Mr. Montes also received a very lenient form of incarceration, of which Mr. Montes took advantage and appears to have left the country.†   (source)
  • In dramatic fashion, Mr. de Klerk announced the lifting of the bans on the ANC, the PAC, the South African Communist Party, and thirty-one other illegal organizations; the freeing of political prisoners incarcerated for nonviolent activities; the suspension of capital punishment; and the lifting of various restrictions imposed by the State of Emergency.†   (source)
  • I maintained a job, cutting hair, a regular job ...and tried to clean myself up ...but, you know, being incarcerated, it's a point of fact, that the Department of Corrections facility is drug infested ...and that's why I'm asking for an inpatient program ...where I can get away from everything that's a problem for me.†   (source)
  • He had been trying to get me to try yoga at a fancy downtown studio for years, and he found it both entertaining and annoying that it had taken incarceration to get me into Downward Dog.†   (source)
  • I will rule, however, that they be kept in preferred incarceration, that the shackles be removed from Mr. Joseph Cinque while he is in lock-up, and that the negroes be allowed regular outdoor exercise and visitors from the Yale Divinity School without barrier or surcharge.†   (source)
  • She didn't have the heavy hallmarks of incarceration on her, even though this was not her first time down—in fact she was a violator, which made sense because she was a junkie.†   (source)
  • This is one of the awful truths of incarceration, the fact that the horror and the struggle and the interest of your immediate life behind prison walls drives the "real world" out of your head.†   (source)
  • When preferred incarceration had been declared in the last trial, his wife had offered to take the girls into their home rather than have them exposed to the filth and "criminal elements" of the jailhouse.†   (source)
  • Some of the faithful had a distinct aspect of roostering, loudly proclaiming that they were going to pray on any number of topics, how God was walking beside them through their incarceration, how Jesus loved sinners, and so on.†   (source)
  • We huddled together for a moment while chaos reigned around us, and it occurred to me that they probably knew nothing at all about the last ten years of my life, including the very fact that I was incarcerated.†   (source)
  • So I wrote about the cooperation, and then I wrote about how she had used the two years she had been incarcerated to think seriously about the consequences of her actions, and how much she regretted them; I wrote about her love for her daughter and what her hopes and dreams were for being a better mother, a good mother; I wrote about how hard she had been working to be a better person; and I wrote about how cocaine had taken away all the things that were most important to her, had hurt her health, her judgment, her most important relationships, and wiped out years of her youth; I wrote about how she was ready to change her life.†   (source)
  • By happenstance, he was one of its early novitiates, and had begun working in Haus Hoss shortly after his incarceration.†   (source)
  • As I have said before, because of her silence this long period of her incarceration remained (and still remains) largely a blank to me.†   (source)
  • I suppose I was incarcerated for no more than two hours, but I would willingly have stayed there until dawn or, indeed, until I had frozen to death—so long as I was able to expiate my crime.†   (source)
  • I had read quite a bit about sexual problems while studying at that noted athenaeum of psychology, Duke University, and had come away with some fairly well established facts: that male primates in captivity, for instance, when denied female companionship, will try to bugger each other, often with gleeful success, and that many prisoners after long periods of incarceration will turn so readily to homosexual activity that it will almost appear to be the norm.†   (source)
  • There they had all been incarcerated in a hotel, kept strictly away from their husband and father.†   (source)
  • We should have taken you to the London zoo and incarcerated you in the baboons' cage.†   (source)
  • And she may not have known before that she hated him and she may not have known it now even, nevertheless the first of the odes to Southern soldiers in that portfolio which when your grandfather saw it in 1885 contained a thousand or more, was dated in the first year of her father's voluntary incarceration and dated at two oclock in the morning.†   (source)
  • But, now they had abruptly become aware that they were undergoing a sort of incarceration under that blue dome of sky, already beginning to sizzle in the fires of summer, they had a vague sensation that their whole lives were threatened by the present turn of events, and in the evening, when the cooler air revived their energy, this feeling of being locked in like criminals prompted them sometimes to foolhardy acts.†   (source)
  • You are the first respectable citizen who has called on me since my incarceration, and being in jail makes one appreciate friends.†   (source)
  • You took a chance that my incarceration away from female companionship would put me in such a state I'd snap at you like a trout at a worm.†   (source)
  • The conversation naturally fell upon the incarceration of the poor man.†   (source)
  • The same evening Andrea was incarcerated in the Conciergerie.†   (source)
  • He could not speak as to his life before—but since his incarceration—or for the last year, at least, he had come into a new understanding of life, duty, his obligations to man and God.†   (source)
  • Incarcerated, withdrawn from the world, compelled by the highly circumscribed nature of this death house life to find solace or relief in his own thoughts, Clyde's, like every other temperament similarly limited, was compelled to devote itself either to, the past, the present or the future.†   (source)
  • However, one of the most difficult matters in connection with Clyde and his incarceration here, as Belknap and Jephson as well as the prosecution saw it, was the fact that thus far not one single member of his own or his uncle's family had come forward to champion him.†   (source)
  • For through this passage, on his last day, a man was transferred from his better cell in the new building, where he might have been incarcerated for so much as a year or two, to one of the older ones in the old death house, in order that he might spend his last hours in solitude, although compelled at the final moment, none-the-less (the death march), to retrace his steps along this narrower cross passage—and where all might see—into the execution chamber at the other end of it.†   (source)
  • But Dantes cannot remain forever in prison, and one day or other he will leave it, and the day when he comes out, woe betide him who was the cause of his incarceration!†   (source)
  • Let it not be supposed by the enemies of 'the system,' that, during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.†   (source)
  • The first measure taken by the magistrate is to exact security from the defendant, or, in case of refusal, to incarcerate him: the ground of the accusation and the importance of the charges against him are then discussed.†   (source)
  • Consider it: among these forty-seven captives there were five whose names, offenses, and dates of incarceration were no longer known!†   (source)
  • Another reason which Sag-Harbor (he went by that name) urged for his want of faith in this matter of the prophet, was something obscurely in reference to his incarcerated body and the whale's gastric juices.†   (source)
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