All 50 Uses
incarcerate
in
Just Mercy
(Edited)
- Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own.
p. 12.7incarcerated = imprisoned (people in prison)
- This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America.
p. 14.8 *incarceration = imprisonment
- Today we have the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
p. 15.1
- 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.
p. 15.3incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
- We've given up on rehabilitation, education, and services for the imprisoned because providing assistance to the incarcerated is apparently too kind and compassionate.
p. 15.8incarcerated = people in prison
- The collateral consequences of mass incarceration have been equally profound.
p. 16.1incarceration = imprisonment
- Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated.
p. 16.8
- Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated.
p. 16.8incarcerated = people in prison
- 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.
p. 16.9incarceration = imprisonment
- 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.
p. 16.9
- After graduating from law school, I went back to the Deep South to represent the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
p. 17.1incarcerated = people in prison
- 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.
p. 17.9incarcerated = 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.
p. 18.1incarcerated = people in prison
- The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
p. 18.5incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 18.8incarceration = imprisonment
- Vickie came from a poor white family, several of whose members were incarcerated; she enjoyed none of the status of Ronda Morrison.
p. 32.9incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
- The practice, which wasn't declared unconstitutional until 2002, was one of many degrading and dangerous punishments imposed on incarcerated people.
p. 36.8incarcerated = people in prison
- 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.
p. 45.1incarceration = imprisonment
- Incarcerated men would trap rats, poisonous spiders, and snakes they found inside the prison to pass the time and to keep safe.
p. 53.9incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 75.1incarcerated = put in prison
- At a talk I gave at a church months later, I spoke about Charlie and the plight of incarcerated children.
p. 125.1incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 125.9incarceration = imprisonment (being sent to prison)
- When Michael and I drove up to the gate, we could see incarcerated women hovering outside the prison entrance with no officers in view.
p. 137.4incarcerated = 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.
p. 142.9incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
- It wasn't until 2008 that most states abandoned the practice of shackling or handcuffing incarcerated women during delivery.
p. 151.2incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 159.4incarceration = imprisonment
- 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."
p. 178.4incarcerated = put in prison
- 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.
p. 186.1incarceration = imprisonment
- 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.
p. 186.9incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 187.1
- 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.
p. 224.9incarcerated = in prison
- Courts have repeatedly found the prison unconstitutionally overcrowded, with almost twice the number of women incarcerated as it was designed to hold.
p. 235.9incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 236.1incarceration = imprisonment
- Most incarcerated women—nearly two-thirds—are in prison for nonviolent, low-level drug crimes or property crimes.
p. 236.4incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 236.6
- The collateral consequences of incarcerating women are significant.
p. 236.9incarcerating = imprisoning (putting in prison)
- Approximately 75 to 80 percent of incarcerated women are mothers with minor children.
p. 236.9incarcerated = imprisoned
- 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.
p. 237.1incarceration = imprisonment
- The population most affected by this misguided law is formerly incarcerated women with children, most of whom were imprisoned for drug crimes.
p. 237.2incarcerated = imprisoned
- By the time he retired, he'd become the Court's most vocal critic of excessive punishment and mass incarceration.
p. 240.9incarceration = imprisonment
- He admitted fears and doubts he hadn't told me about when he was incarcerated.
p. 244.4incarcerated = in prison
- 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.
p. 245.1incarcerated = put in prison
- 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.
p. 245.2
- 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.
p. 250.8incarcerated = imprisoned
- But there was another industry in town—incarceration.
p. 260.4incarceration = imprisonment
- 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.
p. 260.6
- 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.
p. 260.6incarceration = putting people 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.
p. 260.8incarceration = 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.
p. 260.9incarcerated = in prison or jail
- 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.
p. 261.1incarcerated = imprisoned
Definitions:
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(1)
(incarcerate) put in prison, or otherwise confine
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)