Prison Overcrowding

country in the world. A prison is a facility designed to house people convicted of felonies for extended periods of time. County jail usually ran by the local sheriff’s department is authorized to hold pretrial detainees and offenders who committed low level crimes or misdemeanors. The criminal justice system in America was created to keep communities safe, to respect and restore victims, and to return offenders who leave prison to be self-sufficient and law-abiding, but prisons are seen today,…

In today’s prison systems in the United States, prisons are being flooded with an extremely large amount of new inmates resulting in prisons in the United States becoming more and more overpopulated. The problem of prison overpopulation is only getting worse and becoming a major issue for the United States prison systems. Federal prisons are already 41 percent over their rated capacity and there are still inmates pouring into the prisons every day. There are several problems with prison…

War catalyzed Racism Leading to Overcrowding of Prisons On June 1971, President Nixon declared a “War on Drugs.” The Drug War catalyzed racism which resulted in overcrowding of prisons. “The Drug War dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants” (A Brief History of the Drug War). Ever since the rise of the drug war there has been an explosion of the prison population and lack of…

last decade, five new prisons have been built in New Zealand as a result of overcrowding (Davison, 2016). These institutions built are equivalent to building a small town. Despite the prison expansion, New Zealand still face the issues associated with severe overcrowding (Davison, 2016). Empirical evidence has shown that expanding prisons do not deter crime nor are prisons beneficial for rehabilitation (Newbold, 2007). To respond to chronic overcrowding by building larger prisons, further…

population with overcrowding in many of these facilities. The health care insurance has been raised due to more inmates. Now with these many problems occurring in prisons are affected by the weak economy. Such as, prisoners are not getting fully educated with the low income of the prisons. Due to the crowded prisons, more money is distributed to food, water, clothing, and other essential needs. The excessive innovations of more cell building leads to unnecessary spending. If prisons had a set…

1 Life on Death Row The number of inmates in today’s prisons serving time on death row has increased to over 3000 since 1968. This doesn’t necessary mean that more individuals are involved in more criminal activity that would issue them a death sentence But, it has become a very slow process to carry out the sentence to persons convicted by a jury of their peers. This…

to a lengthy prison sentence. From the arrest, to the trial, to the sentencing, your tax paying dollars are at work going towards what some call the never-ending cycle of the criminal justice system. Proposition 47, an attempt to reduce…

should be put in prison, but where the system comes into play, everyone has at least somewhat of a second chance to redeem themselves unless it is the tenth time. After so many of the same or similar crimes are committed, something else will need to be…

the guidelines are often misused in the imposition of extreme sentences on persons who have a crime that does not deserve long-term prison or sentencing. This results in overcrowding in the prisons. The overcrowding comes as a result that most of the criminals are subjected to long-term prisons having committed crimes that do not deserve sentencing hence overcrowding example in Canada. There is the issue that some of the judges treat these guidelines as fast and hard rules that are imposed…

incarceration rates, which leading to overcrowding of prisons. In an effort to find a solution, private prisons were created. A private prison is a third party that is contracted by the US Government and is run as a for-profit organization. More inmates in private prisons, translates to more money for the government and the third party. In the 1980’s, it is the year that was recognized as the origin of private prison. Former…