Penahanan massal taler pinaka "jaringan hukum, prarem, kawicakan taler parilaksana sane agengan anggen ngitukang ipun sane madue label penjahat utawi bromo corah inggian ring tengahing utawi di jaba penjara."
Mass incarceration is also, "the larger web of laws, rules, policies, and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and out of prison."