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How to use the word INCARCERATED in a Sentence?

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It feels great [ to be out ], you only appreciate freedom once you’ve been incarcerated, let me tell you. It’s a different lifestyle, it’s a different world. I’ve been out now for over three months and I ’m happy to be here alive and speaking to you.

Boris Becker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Constitution guarantees that people incarcerated in jails and prisons may not be detained beyond their release dates, and it is the fundamental duty of the State to ensure that all people in its custody are released on time.

Kristen Clarke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These violations are in large part caused and exacerbated by systemic deficiencies in LDOC’s policies and procedures related to the receipt of sentencing documents, computation of an incarcerated individuals’ release dates, and employee training.

Justice Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s very much a racial justice issue because Black and Hispanic women are very disproportionately incarcerated. And that has huge economic impacts on future earnings and the ability to get a job.

Asha Banerjee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As I often said during my campaign for president, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana, sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My colleagues and I swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States to protect and defend the rights of all Americans, including those who are incarcerated, and many of those who are dying are pre-trial detainees.

Jon Ossoff

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We have over incarcerated our youth as well as our adults, but we've also done it in a particularly poor way with the inclusion of SROs at our schools, so, one of the things that I've been focusing on is: What should the role of law enforcement be inside our schools? And I am a proponent of, first, eliminating SROs and diverting that money back to school counselors. So many of our students go to schools without counselors or nurses, and those should be the first-line responders when it comes to solving student problems.

Julie Gunnigle

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They don’t speak no English and she don’t speak the language that they speak. It’s bad enough being incarcerated but what if you incarcerated in a foreign land where they don’t speak your language? You know how bad that is? So, that thought alone terrified me.

Roy Jones Jr.

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What I found in my research is that women were indeed punished, even if, you know, almost none of them are prosecuted and incarcerated for having an abortion.

Leslie Reagan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let me just say that New York City has the third-strictest gun laws in the United States. Let's use those gun laws to prosecute, anyone who uses a firearm in the commission of a violent felony, whether it's threatening someone during an armed robbery, during a carjacking, what you know during a domestic dispute, they need to be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And while that process is playing out from their arrest to their trial to their conviction, they need to be incarcerated. We encourage the mayor to speak honestly with people about that and encourage bipartisan support for all of that.

Betsy Brantner-Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The first is that you are entering into someone's private domain and you're bringing a very public face to a very private matter, people's emotions are already elevated due to whatever dispute they're involved in and now you bring the coercive power of the state, people are angry and angry to see you, knowing that there's potential to be arrested and incarcerated.

Jon Shane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People's emotions are already elevated due to whatever dispute they're involved in and now you bring the coercive power of the state, people are angry and angry to see you, knowing that there's potential to be arrested and incarcerated.

Jon Shane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No one -- including incarcerated individuals -- should be deceived and subject to medical experimentation. Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder has a responsibility to provide food, shelter, and safe, appropriate care to incarcerated individuals.

Gary Sullivan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The facility cares for the state's sickest incarcerated men.

Terry Thornton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If she is healthy enough to flee, she is healthy enough to be incarcerated.

Efraim Zuroff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Apparently, that’s not exactly the case, if she is healthy enough to flee, she is healthy enough to be incarcerated.

Efraim Zuroff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He had no grudges, and should have been angry at the world, but he wasn't angry at anyone. He prayed to forgive those that incarcerated him.

Damon Thibodeaux

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are deeply concerned about the safety of our staff, medical staff, and incarcerated people in our facilities and are working hard to improve conditions, we have been taking extensive measures to encourage staff to return to work, to relieve those who have been heroically working extra shifts to compensate, and to make this an environment whereany parent would feel like their own son or daughter was safe working or living here.

Vincent Schiraldi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are supposed to be free people, we are not incarcerated, but it feels like my rights are constantly being violated.

The DOCCS

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

They also run largely unopposed, and women and people of color are vastly underrepresented among sitting DAs. Given thathalf of all U.S. adults have an immediate family member that was or is incarcerated, and that over 90 percent of the incarcerated population is held at the state and local level, our local prosecutors matter more than ever. as you can tell from multiple times where the Oregon Law and Justice PAC was asked about who their donor was, they kept it secret the entire time, even despite the fact that his opponent was running ads saying secret billionaires are funding his campaign and he won't tell us who the billionaires are, Thayer told Fox News.

Parker Thayer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Given the stark racial disparities in our criminal justice system, this would cause the most harm to Black and brown families and communities already harmed by mass incarceration, children should not be forced to go hungry because a parent is incarcerated.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is somebody people can connect with, that's the biggest problem around our prison systems is that often people have a hard time connecting with the humanity of incarcerated people.

Barbara Fair

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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