INCARCERATE

incarcerate: (v.) to imprison, confine, jail

Synonyms: intern, immure Antonyms: liberate, release, free

Martin Luther King Jr. was incarcerated in a Birmingham jail for demostrating peacefully for civil rights.

While hundereds of african americans are incarcerated and charged with felonies for possession of marajuana, the wealthy whites who participate equally or even more highly in its trade and consumtion don't serve any jail time; this creates a caste system with it's lowest class consisting of these unequally prosecuted criminals and their families.