Example sentences for: incarceration

How can you use “incarceration” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The 1994 edition does note, in passing, that the U.S. incarceration rate, 4.55 people per 100,000, is "ten times higher than that of Japan, Sweden, Ireland, and the Netherlands."

  • I think it is perfectly respectable for you to use your results to say that all those who have been pointing to overall demographic shifts, or changing police tactics, or increasing incarceration rates are missing a key factor.

  • There has been a lot of sociological literature written about the formation of gangs in prisons as a means of surviving incarceration in the United States.

  • In his answer to the voting felons question, Gore implied that the disproportionately high incarceration rate for African-Americans was principally the result of bias, which is preposterous.

  • No one has written more over the years about the cost-effectiveness of incarceration as measured both in terms of its crime-reduction value and in terms of doing justice.


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