incarcerable

English

Etymology

From incarcerate +‎ -able.

Adjective

incarcerable (not comparable)

1. Suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.
   • 1999, Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria:

     The boundaries of incarcerable behavior were wider, though, for people far from kin and community, even if these people were not violent.