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The phrase "a year of incarceration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific duration of imprisonment or confinement, often in legal or formal contexts.
Example: "After being found guilty, he was sentenced to a year of incarceration for his crimes."
Alternatives: "a year of imprisonment" or "a year of confinement."
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Two years later, Hillier found himself at Winchester Crown Court where he was sentenced to a year of incarceration for circumventing Inland Revenue in making those illegal payments.
If the program works, its economic logic is unassailable: running it costs roughly $500 a head, Waxler says, as opposed to about $30,000 for a year of incarceration.
Mr. Gotti, 45, slender from a year of incarceration, leaned to hug his lawyer as his friends and family, in the front rows of the courtroom, burst into a tearful round of applause.
"What should the maximum sentence be," I would begin, "for selling a small amount of a hard drug, like heroin or cocaine?" Most answers fell somewhere between probation and a few months in jail; even my strictest respondents advocated a year of incarceration, two at the most.
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He was acquitted in the ensuing trial and released after a year of isolated incarceration.
The detention order that confined her to a fifth consecutive year of incarceration expired last night.
Indeed, 46% of those who leave British prisons are reconvicted within a year of their release because incarceration has not remotely addressed issues that got them there in the first place – and in all likelihood made them worse.
The Justice for All Act of 2004 provides those wrongfully convicted of a federal crime $50,000 for each year of incarceration, and $100,000 for those who served on death row.
He is eligible for a monthly annuity, as well as a payout of eighty thousand dollars for each year of incarceration, without having to file suit.
Each year of incarceration costs New York State more than $27,000 per inmate.
In his fourth year of incarceration he wrote to the new president, John F Kennedy, and began the long process of applying for executive clemency.
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