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- noun Plural form of
incarceration .
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Examples
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While I disagree with Avatar on the issue of narcotics, he is correct that increasing the number of sometimes very short-term incarcerations for initial arrested offenses would likely prove beneficial.
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Foley notes that the expense may be justifiable if we're actually deporting criminals whose long-term incarcerations would cost significantly more.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: The Burden of Record-Breaking Deportations The Media Consortium 2010
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By cutting down on arrests, incarcerations and hospitalizations not to mention dangerous, these laws save money and lives while helping the mentally ill live successfully in the community.
DJ Jaffe: What Harry Reid and John Boehner Should Do in Wake of Giffords Shooting DJ Jaffe 2011
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My opinion is that the Israeli leadership loves the status quo: no 2-state solution, no 1-state solution, but instead perpetual occupations, incarcerations, persecutions, apartheid conditions, targeted assassinations, collective punishments, etc.
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Reasons for these incarcerations ranged from prosecutor error to police misconduct -- with many of the misconduct cases taking place in Chicago.
Chicago Monument Will Honor Victims Of Police Torture The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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By cutting down on arrests, incarcerations and hospitalizations not to mention dangerous, these laws save money and lives while helping the mentally ill live successfully in the community.
DJ Jaffe: What Harry Reid and John Boehner Should Do in Wake of Giffords Shooting DJ Jaffe 2011
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This created political nightmares for Democrats forced to defend speculative stories that terrorist trials or incarcerations could happen in their states.
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His personal testimony was often enough to put to rest their fears of reprisals and incarcerations in Rwanda which were widely shared amongst the young rebels.
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: The unresolved FDLR issue 2009
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When it arrived on DVD a few years back, it was the incarcerations at Guantánamo Bay that drew obvious comparisons.
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In a country with a legitimate opposition party, impeachments, convictions, and incarcerations would be possible.
The Paradox of Law: The Past as Prologue « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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