Overincarcerate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To incarcerate too many of (a certain group). transitive

    "The prison system was said to overincarcerate Aboriginals."

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"The prison system was said to overincarcerate Aboriginals."

Etymology

From over- + incarcerate.

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