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Society's timeout chair, where freedom is revoked and the meter keeps running.
means The state of being confined in prison or jail, usually as punishment for a crime.
from From Latin in- (into) plus carcer (prison, enclosure) — literally to put into a cage, surfacing in English around the 1530s.
Word cousinCarcer also fathered incarcerate and even cancel.
US scaleAmerica jails more people per capita than anywhere.
Mass versionCoined as a term in the 1990s critiques.