Gerald Gaes writes about the overcrowding of prisons and its effect on prisoners, staff members, and the public in his article “The Effects of Overcrowding in Prison”. Gerald Gaes is a Senior Research Analyst with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Gaes argues that the crammed space these prisoners are put into makes them have violent outburst and angrier than they already are. The overcrowding chaos also effects the staff who have to compose the frantic outbursts.Gaes also writes about the physical changes in the prisoners; for example, high blood pressure. Gaes receives his statistics from multiple sources and studies he researched. This article makes a very valid point about the congestion of prisons. One can use Gaes’ article to argue that
