Meaning of overincarceration | Babel Free

Definitions

The incarceration of an excess number of people.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.””

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