Prison Overcrowding

cause of unnatural deaths in jail at 29 percent. (Frank, 2013) According to Laura Frank and Regina Aguirre, the top symptoms that are linked to suicide in prison are depression, anxiety, paranoia, medical induced problems; impulsivity, religious beliefs, and previous suicide attempts. Many of these symptoms can attribute to the overcrowding of the correctional system and the small quarters…

high prison population has a direct, negative effect on the psychological state of inmates. Overcrowding has been known to cause far more stressful situations and has prompted prison officials to react inappropriately on occasion due to being forced to accommodate ill-advised numbers of prisoners” http://online.ccj.pdx.edu/resources/news-articles/prison-overcrowding-is-a-growing-concern-in-the-u-s/ “Massachusetts faces substantial challenges in meeting the mental health needs of the prison…

(2003) by Kristin Carbone-Lopez and Candace Kruttschnitt attempts to examine women’s perceptions of racial hostility in prison. The female prison population has exploded over the course of last 30 years. Our current knowledge of how women respond to imprisonment is sorely outdated. The dynamic of race relations has always played a key role in the social interactions in prison. While experts cannot agree on exactly how the penological landscape has changed over the past decade, they do agree…

centers is different as some are overcrowded and prisoners are living in harsh condition. Although the enhanced credit was introduced to as to be fair on offenders that were not granted bail or early release, it is also a way of reducing population in prisons as the inmates get to serve shorter term and leave…

CCPOA Influence in Overcrowding Policies The overcrowded jails are one of the biggest issues in the United States criminal justice system and one of the most controversial. Furthermore, the overcrowding in jails has had a reduction in their population that wasn’t seen in the last 40 years (Giblin, 2014, pp.249). The decline on the inmate population can be attributed to factors such as economic and the reconsideration of penal reforms to solve the issues of overcrowding in jails. However the…

the ability of the current system to identify and confine offenders who represent the most serious risk to the community. In the context of overall sentencing reform, selective incapacitation offers the possibility of concentrating scarce and costly prison resources on those most likely to commit crimes if not confined. Selective incapacitation should not be the only rationale for incarceration. Other purposes of sentencing (punishment, deterrence, and rehabilitation) are also important, and…

Correctional facilities will be tasked with preparing inmates to reenter society with a much better chance at being successful outside prison. States will also develop aftercare programs for inmates that provide mental health and substance abuse treatment for inmates that continue after their release from a correctional facility (National Reentry Resource Center,…

Therefore the operational facilities have to handle a bigger population. Overcrowding in the correction facilities causes tension, prisoners group into gangs for protection and this poses a great security risk. Better management skills could help resolve the overcrowding issue, the professional can assist the correctional facilities managers draw better inmate management and resources plans. iii. Limited collaboration…

Some issues are internal while others are external. Internal problems consist of punishments not equal to the crimes committed, federal prosecutors having too much power to decide the punishment for offenders, and the overcrowding of prisons. External problems are more in relation to life after imprisonment for nonviolent offenders, the impact these punitive sentences have on family structures and the creation of the revolving door and recidivism in poor communities. Internal…

In the coding process, both interview transcripts were read multiple times, coded them first to generate initial categories such as “poverty”, “education”, “rehabilitation”, “media”, “fear”, “neighbourhood”. I then checked whether any codes were missing, could be combined with others, or effectively divided in two. On the basis of the coding, one particular theme that emerged from both interviews is the emphasis on social inequality to crime and criminal justice. I then went back to the data to…