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Overcrowding and Overuse of Imprisonment in the United States American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights May 2015. This idea of total incarceration just isn't working.. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, March 23, 2015. I. Overcrowding and the Overuse of Imprisonment in the United States While the Overuse of Imprisonment is a problem of endemic proportions around the world, the human rights violations associated with this practice are particularly egregious in the context of the United States. With an incarceration rate five to ten times that of other western democracies, the United States has less than five percent of the world's population, but our country's prisoners account for one quarter of the global prison population.
Mass incarceration in the United States raises serious constitutional and human rights concerns. The human rights violations inherent in the system of mass incarceration play out on a number of fronts: from racial disparities in arrests, convictions, and sentencing; to draconian sentences
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