overincarceration
nounEtymology From over- + incarceration.
1
The incarceration of an excess number of people.
- 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.2015 November 10, Vincent Schiraldi, “What Mass Incarceration Looks Like for Juveniles”, in New York Times:
- 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.”2022 January 25, Eric Reinhart, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate:
- Synonyms
- overimprisonment