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Incarceration separates people from society as punishment, often shaped by poverty and unequal justice.
means The state of being locked up in prison or jail as punishment or detention.
from From Latin incarcerare, 'to put in prison' — built from in- ('into') and carcer ('prison, enclosure'). Carcer itself is old and its deeper roots are uncertain, but it gave English not just this word but, via a winding path through Old French, the humble 'cancel' and the racetrack 'cancer'-adjacent 'carceral' family. The word passed into English legal and religious Latin largely intact, keeping its blunt meaning: to wall a person into a confined space, literally.
- US share
- holds about 20 percent of world's prisoners
- profit motive
- private prisons bill per inmate per day
- recidivism
- most released reoffend within three years
- alternative cost
- college tuition often cheaper than a cell