What's the difference between detention and incarceration?

Detention


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
  • (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.
  • (n.) Confinement; restraint; custody.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
  • (2) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
  • (3) He was first allowed to leave Atatürk airport for a Turkish detention camp, before finally being sent to Australia in early June.
  • (4) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
  • (5) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
  • (6) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
  • (7) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
  • (8) Nauru refugee 'release' shows neither detention nor drawn-out processing were ever necessary | Joyce Chia Read more On Monday the Nauruan government declared “detention had ended” on the island, after a weekend announcement that detainees would be allowed to move freely about the island at all times.
  • (9) UN spokesman Samir Ghattas said a "strong protest" had been made to Libya about the detention of the official.
  • (10) Viktoria Vibhakar, a former senior child protection manager on Nauru, said she felt a duty to tell Australians about the abuses occurring at the detention centre.
  • (11) Those who have committed a crime on British soil can expect to serve their prison sentence, and then be held in a prison-like detention centre with no definite date of release while the UK Border Agency works out how or if they can be deported – a process that can take months, or even years.
  • (12) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
  • (13) He is scheduled to return to court on Monday for a detention hearing and will enter a plea on 6 January.
  • (14) During their detention by Pakistani authorities the women, one of whom was wounded in the Abbottabad raid, were interviewed by American intelligence agencies.
  • (15) Across all UK immigration detention centres, it reported that the number of incidents of self-harm requiring medical attention more than doubled between 2012 and 2014 from 150 to at least 306.
  • (16) Werya is so, so important,” Boochani says in a series of interviews from detention.
  • (17) But defenders of Ihat recall the notorious case of Baha Mousa , an Iraqi who died in British detention, and note that the MoD has paid out £22m in compensation to victims of alleged abuse in Iraq.
  • (18) They need to close the detention centre down,” she said.
  • (19) The inquiry report found the Nauru detention centre was not a safe environment for asylum seekers, and called for children to be removed from the centre .
  • (20) Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick .

Incarceration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • (n.) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
  • (n.) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We based our approach on the anteroposterior location of the incarceration site and the amount of retina incarcerated into the wound.
  • (2) She said it was impossible to attribute the increase in Indigenous women’s incarceration rates to one specific factor, but law and order policies of federal and state governments should be examined.
  • (3) Some prominent US militia leaders are distancing themselves from the armed occupation, which is a protest against Monday’s incarceration of two local ranchers, father and son Dwight and Steven Hammond.
  • (4) We are saying enough is enough.” Hundreds of protesters appeared to have joined the march, carrying banners that said “adalet” or “justice” as they set out on the 280 mile (450km) trek that will take them to Maltepe prison, where Enis Berberoğlu has been incarcerated.
  • (5) The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows.
  • (6) If correctional institutions constrain inmates' access to social benefits, means exist to protect incarcerated people's rights in health studies.
  • (7) In the last 8 years 15 cases of Meckel's diverticulum were observed, 6 of them with complications: three times inflammation (with two perforations), each once invagination, incarceration and occult bleeding from carcinoids.
  • (8) The gray scale ultrasonic findings in a case of incarcerated Spigelian hernia are presented.
  • (9) A similar observation was made when there was an incarceration of the vitreous to the surgical wound.
  • (10) Often incarceration masks the environmental stimuli, resulting in not only early release but a false clinical prognosis for success.
  • (11) When we compared ARD in patients whose cataract extractions had been complicated by vitreous incarceration with those ARDs following uncomplicated cataract surgery, we found that the characteristics of the detachments were very similar.
  • (12) It was hypothesized that incarcerated adolescents would have significantly higher levels of isolation, normlessness, powerlessness, and total alienation than would nonincarcerated adolescents.
  • (13) For these offenses, SST was as acceptable as aversive treatments and incarceration.
  • (14) The tumor was 5 cm in length and incarcerated into the stomach with an elongated stalk at operation.
  • (15) This is a well recognised complication of indirect inguinal hernia and a common complication of incarceration.
  • (16) I’m not going to put a deadline on it,” he said last week of her incarceration.
  • (17) Changing Rooms and Ground Force – market- leaders in the home make-over genre that was the telly sensation in the decade before incarceration game-shows – ran from 1996 to 2004 and 1997 to 2005 respectively.
  • (18) The risk of rare cases of incarcerated diaphragmatic hernia should be considered after proximal gastric resection.
  • (19) Most patients require resection of the incarcerated bowel.
  • (20) Limited opportunities for exercising self-control while incarcerated may encourage helplessness.