Prison Overcrowding
Number of pages:
15
ABSTRACT:
15 pages in length. The United States lays claim the world's highest incarceration rate as a direct result of federal minimum sentencing requirements mandated by law in the 1980s. The result is that state correctional prison budgets are exploding and the national inmate population currently stands at no less than one million prisoners. Finding a viable solution to the problem has been plaguing a number of states, not the least of which is California, inasmuch as "...overcrowding requires an expansion of facilities or a dropping of the intake rate. Prison officials have no control over the capacities of their institutions or over the number of offenders that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, no date). The writer discusses potential alternatives and solutions, as well as provides statistical information concerning California's overcrowding problem. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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