Prison overcrowding is a community phenomenon that occurs when the demand for space in prisons exceeds the capacity for the amount of prisoners within a prison. Overcrowding has become a problem in many states. Many states have stretched prisons far beyond their capacity for years, while California has continued to remain a focus to a federal order to slender its hefty prison population mass. For instance, with keeping the focus on California, California’s prisons were designed to quarter 85,000 convicts. In 2006, they reached an all time high of 163,000 inmates; then in 2009 the Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its prison population to 137.5% of the current capacity. In some cases, prison overcrowding got so bad that prison officials
