The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. Overcriminalisation means courts have too many cases to try so plea bargaining has become a convenient mechanism for mass adjudication.
Watch Premal Dharia, Executive Director of the Institute to end Mass Incarceration and Fair Trials’ Rebecca Shaeffer explain why plea bargaining has become both a facilitator and driver of mass incarceration. Directed by Ambika Samarthya-Howard
Read the information sheet on plea bargaining and mass incarceration. Find out more about plea bargaining.
