Decarcerate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To implement a policy of decarceration; to reduce prison populations.
"Refusing to decarcerate and now increasing spending on policing that will drive the shuttling of even more Americans into jails and prisons is especially perverse given the recent attention paid to the worsening conditions of confinement and the mistreatment of the incarcerated."
Example
More examples"Refusing to decarcerate and now increasing spending on policing that will drive the shuttling of even more Americans into jails and prisons is especially perverse given the recent attention paid to the worsening conditions of confinement and the mistreatment of the incarcerated."
Etymology
Modeled on incarcerate, replacing the prefix with de-.
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