incarceration

Examples of incarceration in the following topics:

• Prisons

  • Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2010 — about 0.7% of adults in the U.S. resident population.
  • The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world (743 per 100,000 population).
  • Incarceration rate in the U.S. for federal and state prisons in 2007 was the highest in history of the country.
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. count jails and federal and state prisons at yearend 2010; this represents about 0.7% of adults in the U.S. resident population.
  • Analyze recent developments in the rate of incarceration in the U.S.

• Inguinal Hernia

  • Although their repair is one of the most frequently performed surgical operations, elective surgery is no longer recommended in minimally symptomatic cases, due the low risk of incarceration (<0.2% per year) and the significant risk (10-12%) of post herniorraphy pain syndrome.
  • The inability to "reduce," or place the bulge back into the abdomen usually means the hernia is 'incarcerated' which requires emergency surgery.
  • Emergency surgery for incarceration and strangulation carry much higher risk than planned, "elective" procedures.
  • However, the risk of incarceration is low, evaluated at 0.2% per year.

• Internment of Japanese Americans

  • Suspicion of and racial prejudice toward Japanese-Americans after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in the incarceration of around 110,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese residing in the United States.
  • Scholars have urged dropping such euphemisms and refer to them as concentration camps and the people as incarcerated.
  • Educational facilities were set up for nearly 30,000 incarcerated children.
  • In effect, the two rulings held that, while the eviction of U.S. citizens in the name of military necessity was legal, the subsequent incarceration was not — thus paving the way for their release.
  • Leading up to their incarceration, Nikkei were prohibited from leaving the Military Zones or traveling more than 5 miles (8.0 km) from home, forcing those who had to travel for work, like truck farmers and residents of rural towns, to quit their jobs. 

• Crime Statistics

  • Comparing incarceration rates by countries goes beyond just reporting incidents of criminal activity (incidents of crime are not much higher in the U.S. than elsewhere) by highlighting differences in the correctional systems of countries.
  • Differences of these types are seen when comparing incarceration rates and populations.
  • Even though billions of dollars are spent on the criminal justice system every year in the U.S., the financial outlays actually account for only part of the cost of mass incarceration.
  • ratio of African-American incarceration rate to European-American incarceration rate - 8 to 1

• Formal Means of Control

  • Criminal sanctions can take the form of serious punishment, such as corporal or capital punishment, incarceration, or severe fines.

• The Eighth Amendment and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

  • The Court overturned a punishment called cadena temporal, which mandated "hard and painful labor," shackling for the duration of incarceration, and permanent civil disabilities.
  • The Court overturned a punishment called cadena temporal, which mandated "hard and painful labor," shackling for the duration of incarceration and permanent civil disabilities.

• Sanctions

• The Beginning

  • The following examples concerns modern incarceration rates: "By the end of 2004, 724 out of every 100,000 U.S. residents were incarcerated.

• Conclusion: Political Crises in the 70s and 80s

  • This graph of the number of people in jail, prison, and juvenile detention by decade in the United States shows the huge increase in incarceration during the war on drugs that began in the 1980s, during the Reagan administration.

• Prisons and Asylums

  • Imprisonment as a form of criminal punishment became widespread in the United States just before the American Revolution, though penal incarceration efforts had been ongoing in England since as early as the 1500s, and prisons in the form of dungeons and various detention facilities had existed since long before then.
  • By the second decade of the nineteenth century, every state except North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida had amended its criminal code to provide for incarceration (primarily at hard labor) as the primary punishment for all but the most serious offenses.