incarcerated
Locked in prison
Incarcerated means confined in prison or jail.
The term is more formal than "jailed" or "locked up" and appears frequently in legal, policy, and academic contexts: the incarcerated population, incarcerated individuals.
It can also describe any physical confinement: a hernia with incarcerated tissue.
Her brother has been incarcerated for fifteen years.
Basic unit of life
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- lockupTemporary detention facility
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- isolationComplete separation from others
cage · detention · custody · captivity · hold · enclosure · seclusion · restraint
Confined facility resident
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- convictJailed offender after trial
- detaineePerson held in custody
- captiveOne held by force
felon · offender · jailbird · lifer · death row · juvenile · pretrial · political prisoner
Confinement for offenders
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- jailDetention facility
- correctionalAimed at rehabilitation
- reformatoryYouth offender institution
warden · parole · probation · sentence · trial · verdict · court · justice
One-piece body garment
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
- handcuffsLocking wrist restraints
- strip searchUnclothed physical examination
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
count · yard time · phone call · letter · commissary · bunk · cellmate · guard
cell
Basic unit of life
isolation · cage · detention · custody · captivity · hold · enclosure · seclusion · restraint · imprisoned
inmate
Confined facility resident
captive · felon · offender · jailbird · lifer · death row · juvenile · pretrial · political prisoner · prisoner of war
prison
Confinement for offenders
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- jailDetention facility
- correctionalAimed at rehabilitation
reformatory · warden · parole · probation · sentence · trial · verdict · court · justice · bail
jumpsuit
One-piece body garment
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
- handcuffsLocking wrist restraints
- strip searchUnclothed physical examination
lockdown · count · yard time · phone call · letter · commissary · bunk · cellmate · guard · contraband
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, prison
- stuckjammed, clogged, trapped, stuck in mud, snowed in
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
- criminal traitsconvicted, guilty, accused, arrested, wanted
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- statusespending, active, approved, inactive, completed
incarceratedfree
Without payment or restriction
freed · released · unconfined · at liberty · loose
incarceratedreleased
Set free from confinement
discharged · paroled · acquitted · exonerated · unincarcerated
incarceratedliberated
Released from confinement
free · emancipated · enfranchised · delivered · unfettered
- mass incarcerationExcessive imprisonment at scale
- incarceration ratesMeasure of imprisoned population
- formerly incarceratedHaving served time previously
incarcerate, incarceration, incarcerating, incarcerates, incarcerations