incarceration

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I believe that Karolaine Maika's situation, and her incarceration are a feminist issue, and that feminist solidarity is most important when it comes to women who are most marginalised by society.

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  1. The act of incarcerating or imprisoning; imprisonment. It [the doctrine of preëxistence] supposeth the descent into these bodyes to be a culpable lapse from an higher and better state of life, and this to be a state of incarceration for former delinquencies. Glanville, Pre-existence of Souls, iv.
  2. In surgery, obstinate constriction, as of a hernia, or retention, as of the placenta in childbirth; strangulation, as in hernia. Synonyms Imprisonment, Confinement, etc. See captivity.

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  • I believe that Karolaine Maika's situation, and her incarceration are a feminist issue, and that feminist solidarity is most important when it comes to women who are most marginalised by society. —  Capitalism Bad; Tree Pretty
  • America likes to promote its self as the "home of the free" but, unfortunately, we have the embarrassing honor of being known as the incarceration nation. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • With all due respect, Sheriff Gobble, the main reason for the increase in American incarceration rates is the Drug War. —  LewRockwell.com
  • I firmly believe that long term incarceration - not the five years that addicts once faced in Kentucky somewhere - is the answer. —  Colorado Springs Independent
  • Seriously, charging prisoners for their incarceration is barbaric. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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  1. = French incarcération = Provencal encarceration = Spanish encarcelacion = Italian incarceragione, incarcerazione, from Middle Latin incarceratio(n-), from incarcerare, imprison: see incarcerate.
 

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