The phrase "experience of incarceration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's personal encounter with being imprisoned or being in jail. Example: The book chronicles the author's experience of incarceration and how it changed his perspective on life.
Here are some of their stories: Aaron Persichetti, 29 On the experience of incarceration: I'm an American, Pittsburgh born.
Anonymous, 26 On the experience of incarceration: I was in Fleury Merogis, outside Paris for six months in 2008.
Although boot-camp sentences are typically shorter than those served in traditional institutions, boot camps intensify the experience of incarceration.
Some people emerge with NVQs, others clean from drug rehabilitation programmes, others merely forever deterred from crime by their experience of incarceration.
Other editors compared it to Dostoyevski's "House of the Dead," which the author had based on his own experience of incarceration in czarist times.
Anderson said her brief experience of incarceration prompted her to donate part of her $20,000 payout to a charity that promotes prisoners' rights.
Prisoners who turn their lived experiences of incarceration into creative expression should be encouraged for their contributions, not further isolated nor punished.
Analysis focused on how experiences of incarceration related to HIV risk behaviors, substance use, empowerment, and re-entry into the community.
Further, implicit in some correctional policies and programs is the view that prisoners are a relatively homogeneous group, defined by their shared experiences of incarceration (van Dooren et al. 2011).
Not only do we have a tendency to miss the chance to engage our experiences of incarceration as monastic opportunities; the reverse is also true: we resist emancipation.
We also included variables that described prior experiences of incarceration during our observation periods, namely, the number and duration (days) of prior incarcerations.
