overincarcerated
English
editEtymology
editFrom over- + incarcerated.
Adjective
editoverincarcerated (comparative more overincarcerated, superlative most overincarcerated)
- Of whom a disproportionate number are in prison.
- 2015 August 12, Michael Kimmelman, “David Simon and Cory Booker on ‘Show Me a Hero’ and the Future of Cities”, in New York Times[1]:
- For things like drugs and nonviolent offenses, they’re being hideously overpoliced and overincarcerated.