Prison Overcrowding Solutions

Crime occurs each and everyday, some worse than others. Without a doubt crime is completely inevitable. Achieving social control is the ultimate problem that society faces. A formal mean of social control is the establishment of laws. Government regulation and protection of society is the rules enforced by the law. Those engaged in prohibited behavior are imposed to heavy penalties and this is a branch of law known as criminal law. Each and every society has established laws or definite ways of administering the criminal justice system. Substantive and procedural laws are also a huge part of the criminal justice system operations. As a form of punishment, prisons and jails were established. Although during the colonial period physical punishment …show more content…
Letting criminals with even misdemeanors crimes or others because they haven’t committed that many crimes doesn’t mean they aren’t going to do it again. There are many alternative solutions available that should be offered to resolve the issue of prison overcrowding such as boot camps, probation, participating in community service, house arrest. The issue of prison overcrowding is very complicated but there are many alternatives that need to be seeked out more frequent in order to see an ultimate …show more content…
All first time offenders or nonviolent offenders should either be out upon these alternatives but if these alternatives do not help them change their behavior at all then seek prison time for them. If isolating these offenders from society is the only way to rehabilitate them, then there is no other choice. At least trying these alternatives with less serious offenders would decrease the issue of overcrowding and the costs of prisons by a huge amount. Anything and everything needs to be tried before directly just sending first time offenders into prisons. Deterring crime is indeed the ultimate goal of the criminal justice system but it indeed is a difficult one to