Incarcerated

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This word has to do with American prisons.

Incarcerated.

Thirty years later, the incarceration rate has increased 500 percent.

The more than 2 million people now incarcerated in the U.S. make up the largest prison population in the world.

The word incarcerated means to be put in a jail, or a prison.

People who are incarcerated are there because they are guilty of a crime.

They are not free, and they cannot come and go on their own.

Now, when you hear the word incarcerated, you will know what it means, and you can use it in a conversation!

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