Definition of incarceration
plural incarcerations
: confinement in a jail or prison : the act of imprisoning someone or the state of being imprisoned
- Despite the drop in crime in past decades, rates of arrest and incarceration in New York City have not gone down.
- —Robin Steinberg
- To this day, the Supreme Court has not overruled its infamous Korematsu opinion of 1944, which validated our mass incarceration in deference to national security.
- —George Takei
