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What does incarceration mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  2. (surgery) strangulation, as in hernia.
  3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
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We chat for 45 minutes, touching on atonement, forgiveness and incarceration.
Thus, it appears that this relationship is accounted for by factors other than differential rates of incarceration or child welfare involvement.
Under our system of criminal law, a person accused of a crime must bear the consequences of arrest and incarceration until trial.
Some say they were subject to strip searches many days into their incarceration.
During his incarceration as a prisoner of conscience, Shcharansky's stature in the West grew.
Indian people have the highest rate of incarceration and the highest rates of fetal alcohol syndrome, diabetes, and cancer.

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