Problems Of Overcrowded Prisons

One of the major problems with the criminal justice systems is overcrowded prisons. There are things that can be done to help this situation with currently incarcerated prisoners and thing to help prevent it to continuing to happen. With prisons and jails being overcrowded it can affect not only the prisoners and the correction officers that are in that are inside, it also affects the community as a whole. In the perspective of an investigator, they see the effects that prison overcrowding does on the community more than they do inside a prison. With the way thing are a prisoner may be released from a prison and have nowhere to go, no money, and no family or fronds to help them when they get out. So, in turn, has them leaving on the streets …show more content…
In their position as on investor, they are there to investigate crimes after they happen, not before. So, with this situation, it needs to be handled and taken care of to stop crimes from happening in the first place. Other than just talking to people and telling them what they have learned from their investigation into the problem with overcrowded prison, the investigator would have to go out of his role in order to do anything …show more content…
One would be to make drug and alcohol treatments available for prisoners being released that have a drug are alcohol problem. By doing this, prisoners would have they ability to get released early and go to a treatment center to help them. This would then help stop the addiction that prisoners may have when they get out and they won’t have to commit any crime as a way do get drugs or alcohol. A second way that this problem could be fixed is if they allow prisoners with no friend or family access to a home or shelter like a halfway house so when prisoners get released they would have a place to stay and food to eat. This would also deter prisoners from committing crimes for a place to stay or food to eat. A third way would be to hire more parole officers. This solution could help quite a few things. One it would give jobs to more people, it would cut down on the case load for the current parole officer, and the third and most important it would allow parole office to give more individual attention to the parolees. This, in turn, would cut down on crime because the prisoners that are on parole would have someone to go to and to talk with to help them out with any problems that they may