overincarceration
English
editEtymology
editFrom over- + incarceration.
Noun
editoverincarceration (uncountable)
- The incarceration of too many people.
- 2015 November 10, Vincent Schiraldi, “What Mass Incarceration Looks Like for Juveniles”, in New York Times[1]:
- When we put a stop to the overincarceration, crime did not spike and there was a remarkably low felony rearrest rate of 4 percent a year for people who completed probation.
- 2022 January 25, Eric Reinhart, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate[2]:
- Under his [Joe Biden's] administration, rather than movement toward the end of a system of over-incarceration, we are instead witnessing the beginning of a new prison “boom.”