Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration - Paperbackby Lauren Brooke Eisen (Editor) The United States has by far the world's largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousands more are held in jails. This vast system has doled out punishment particularly to people from marginalized groups on an unfathomable scale. At the same time, it has manifestly failed to secure public safety, instead perpetuating inequalities and recidivism. Why does the