0 present participle of incarcerate
1 to put or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison:
Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or incarcerated.
We were incarcerated in that broken elevator for four hours.
The cage ultimately represents a prison incarcerating all who would challenge the hegemony.
If they really are totally indifferent to the rights of others, there may be grounds for incarcerating them permanently, not as punishment, but merely for protection.
We are talking about putting children before service courts and incarcerating 15-year-old boys for up to one year.
However, they are the kind of people to whom we propose to hand over citizens whom we have taken responsibility for incarcerating.
Their difficulties are inadequately addressed by the existing prison system, and simply incarcerating people for longer is inadequate.
The answer does not lie in incarcerating more and more people in prison.
It was eloquent testimony to the desperately destructive effect of incarcerating young people.
We should facilitate community care and stop incarcerating people.
