"overincarceration" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From over- + incarceration.",
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          "ref": "2015 November 10, Vincent Schiraldi, “What Mass Incarceration Looks Like for Juveniles”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2022 January 25, Eric Reinhart, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate:",
          "text": "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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        "The incarceration of too many people."
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          "word": "overimprisonment"
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  "word": "overincarceration"
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