How to Use incarcerated in a Sentence

incarcerated

adjective
  • Every one of those boys had an incarcerated father.
    — Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But the incarcerated trio never gave up.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Proceeds from book sales pay for sending free copies to incarcerated people.
    — Victoria Law, Washington Post, 6 May 2026
  • For over a year, I have been locked in one room with twenty-five other incarcerated people, sharing the same one room.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Tom needs to forgive his incarcerated son, and Grasso needs to forgive himself.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
  • This pattern describes how children of incarcerated parents are six times more likely to end up in the justice system.
    — Andrea Hagan, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Such items can be repurposed in ways that could present a safety risk to staff and the incarcerated population, the statement said.
    — Katie Mulvaney, The Providence Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There is a program where incarcerated women help prepare meals to feed the community.
    — Kynala Phillips, jsonline.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The deaths do more than cause grief for decedents’ families and traumatize the incarcerated people who witness them.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • In some cases, up to 80% of an incarcerated person’s wages are deducted.
    — Julia Bowling, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • Hundreds of incarcerated people, making at most $10 a day, worked as firefighters for the state.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • An incarcerated cop behind bars, he's got a lot of targets on his back, and Mike's coziness with the Crips can only help him so much.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Avner also said that some of the incarcerated women who volunteered with the meal program, who have since been released, have come back to volunteer.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This ruling will further erode critical civil rights protections of the far too many incarcerated people in this country.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • That does not mean every incarcerated person should become religious.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Advocates for incarcerated people say the parole process is rigorous and shouldn’t be politicized.
    — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In another case in Atlanta, two 13-year-old boys were killed in a drive-by shooting ordered by an incarcerated gang leader.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The county in court filings has denied violating the rights of incarcerated people.
    — Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Harrell was believed to be at the jail awaiting the release of an incarcerated person, and this is not considered to be an in-custody death, the sheriff’s office said.
    — Warren Pederson, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Half of incarcerated people in Mississippi lack a high school diploma or its equivalent, and many only read at a sixth-grade level.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
  • In Landor, the condition was that states would agree to respect the religious-freedom rights of incarcerated people.
    — Leah Litman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Bail reform and broader use of cite-and-release policies would reduce the number of incarcerated people, and thereby lower the number of in-custody deaths, the study said.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The class begins with incarcerated people being taught general knowledge of the industry.
    — Sydney Sasser, Charlotte Observer, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Compassionate release is a way to address deficiencies in care for some incarcerated people, but it is seldom granted.
    — Kaley Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Dec. 2025
  • As deaths mount, the incarcerated population discovers that collective action may be their only path to survival.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Jeremy Busby is an incarcerated journalist based in Texas.
    — Jeremy Busby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Some incarcerated men even accused officers of sending people to the SHU to conceal their own abuses.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • According to court records, a security camera caught Murry kissing an incarcerated student at least once.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • As the body count rises, survival depends on collective action among the incarcerated population.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
  • For any problem in an incarcerated person's life — from not getting enough toilet paper to being subject to extreme physical abuse — the grievance system is the primary way to speak out.
    — Christie Thompson, NPR, 17 June 2026

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