carceral.

Relating to prisons, confinement, or imprisonment.

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• carceral space

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The carceral space restricted every movement.

The study described the institution’s carceral design.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a spatial or institutional classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.