In 1992, McDonald’s introduced a popular menu option that allowed customers to “Supersize” their orders. Around that same time, the United States supersized its criminal justice system. But it wasn’t like McDonald’s. At McDonald’s, the supersized order comes all at once. Voters would have balked had they gotten Mass Incarceration all at once. People could digest Mass Incarceration because it happened slowly, over time. It would be like ordering McDonald’s every week for forty years and getting a slightly larger burger each time. You could go from eating a tiny burger to a massive one without noticing the change.