Incarceration in a military-type setting, usu. for three to six months, during which the offender is subjected to strict discipline, physical exercise, and hard labor. See 18 USCA § 4046. • After successfully completing the program, the offender is usu. placed on probation. See BOOT CAMP. Cf. shock probation under PROBATION.
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incarceration, n. The act or process of confining someone; IMPRISONMENT. Cf. DECARCERATION. — incarcerate, vb. — incarcerator, n. shock incarceration. Incarceration in a military-type setting, usu. for three to six months, during which the offender is subjected to strict discipline, physical exercise, and hard labor. See 18 USCA § 4046. • After successfully completing the
disincarcerate, vb. To release (a person) from jail; to set free. — Also termed disimprison.
ex metu carceris (eks mee-t[y]oo kahr-s[schwa]r-is). [Latin] Hist. From fear of imprisonment.
squalor carceris (skway-lor kahr-s[schwa]r-is). [Law Latin] Scots law. The strictness of imprisonment. “This term means merely the strictness of imprisonment which a creditor is entitled to enforce, with the view of compelling the debtor to pay the debt, or disclose any funds which he may have concealed. It does not imply (as it did with
transcarceration. The movement of prisoners or institutionalized mentally ill persons from facility to facility, rather than from a prison or an institution back to the community, as when a prisoner is transferred to a halfway house or to a drug-treatment facility.
carcer (kahr-s[schwa]r), n. [Latin “jail, prison”] Hist. A prison or jail, esp. one used to detain rather than punish. • Carcer, as used in English law and Roman law, usu. referred to a jail used as a place of detention during trial or after sentence pending execution, rather than as a place of punishment. The