decarceratev.
/diːˈkɑːsəreɪt/, U.S. /diˈkɑrsəˌreɪt/, /dəˈkɑrsəˌreɪt/ transitive. To free (a prisoner or prisoners) from incarceration, now often as part of a wider initiative to reduce the prison population by releasing, or not imprisoning, some categories of (usually minor) offenders. Also intransitive.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > release from prison
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deprecec1400
unimprison1817
decarcerate1973
1973 Civil Liberties Rev. Fall 21 Those whose goal is to empty the institutions must..adopt the more direct strategy of convincing those who hold the public purse strings that it is better to reduce the populations of institutions: to decarcerate.
1999 B. C. Feld Bad Kids vi. 173 Legal restrictions on the institutional comingling of status with delinquent offenders..provided the impetus to divert some status offenders from juvenile courts and to decarcerate those who remained in the system.
2021 Independent (Nexis) 22 Feb. 25 We must create solutions that would require the Department of Corrections to evacuate vulnerable people from correctional facilities and, when necessary, to decarcerate those in prisons and jails, including pregnant women, people with respiratory illnesses, those over 50 and those within two years of release.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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