The prison conditions in the United States are appalling to the inmates who are currently serving their time. Prisons have become worse today due to a crumbling infrastructure and currently cannot handle the influx of prisoners coming in. I also disapprove of the current conditions inmates face. Some of these issues is the overcrowding that inmates are dealing with. Budget cuts have also caused Insufficient funds to services like health care, schooling and jobs for rehabilitation to be terminated, this in return is causing recidivism rates to increase. Prisoners also deal with abuse from correctional guards that sometimes go unreported for fear of not being believed or punished. Prison overcrowding is a major problem that inmates face in prison.
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Just one-quarter of the worlds prisoners are held in American prisons" (National Research council). Most states are now currently over capacity with states like California , Alabama and Illinois being over 100% capacity. Conditions in California’s prisons were so bad that the Supreme Court ruled that they violated the Eight Amendment and ordered the state to reduce its prison population. Research has shown that overcrowding can cause an increases in violence and prison riots especially where there is racial segregation between Hispanic, Blacks and White inmates. Overcrowding has also made prison gang's like the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood and The Black Guerrilla Family who have engaged in a long running war between each other to be much worse today with significant riots happening in prisons like San Quentin and Chino's men's prison . Since prisons have no available room there is more of a tendency to classify inmates on space availability rather than the security level they are classified under. Inmates who are considered medium security have been placed in maximum security to deal with overcrowding. Inmates being placed only on the basis of available
Just one-quarter of the worlds prisoners are held in American prisons" (National Research council). Most states are now currently over capacity with states like California , Alabama and Illinois being over 100% capacity. Conditions in California’s prisons were so bad that the Supreme Court ruled that they violated the Eight Amendment and ordered the state to reduce its prison population. Research has shown that overcrowding can cause an increases in violence and prison riots especially where there is racial segregation between Hispanic, Blacks and White inmates. Overcrowding has also made prison gang's like the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood and The Black Guerrilla Family who have engaged in a long running war between each other to be much worse today with significant riots happening in prisons like San Quentin and Chino's men's prison . Since prisons have no available room there is more of a tendency to classify inmates on space availability rather than the security level they are classified under. Inmates who are considered medium security have been placed in maximum security to deal with overcrowding. Inmates being placed only on the basis of available