Is Mass Incarceration Here to Stay?

The article informs that the U.S. federal and state governments in the U.S. embarked on a shift in penal policies that led to an enormous increase in the number of incarcerated individuals. Topics include outbreak of mass protests against the excessive use of popular awareness of and a stronger movement against the carceral state; and U.S. has become an outlier in comparison to its own long-standing practices has a serious overpunishment problem as mass incarceration.