Definition of "carceral" []

• Of or pertaining to prison (adjective)

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• "This is also called the carceral state — like a prison."
• "Marie Gottschalk describes how "women's organizations played a central role" in the dramatic rise of the "carceral" state."
• "The Texas Control Model, eye-for-an-eye carceral paradigm that pummeled the rehabilitation movement in American prisons has bloody footprints leading all the way back to the plantation."