Prison Overcrowding In The United States
Prison Overcrowding
Prison overcrowding is become one of the major financial and controversial problem in the United States. The prison population is increasing rapidly, and we have only one reason the judicial system is given length sentences to cases that don’t deserve it, for example most of the offenders in the United State prison are drug cases, these sentences must be considered and most of the drug offenders should be put in rehabilitation centers instead of putting them in prison. According to the Supreme Court, “America’s prison population has more than quadrupled since 1980. A special report released by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2007 predicts that the nation’s prison population will …show more content…
Lappin. In 2008, one guard in California was murdered by two inmates while another guard in Indiana was brutally stabbed. Also, a 2006 report from the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported inmate-on-staff assaults increased 6 percent over the prior year (Federal Bureau of prison, 2012). All these problems are results from prison overcrowding, however something is causing the major problem. Most of the people think that putting all offenders in prison or jail is the best solution for all the problems; however this is not necessarily the case. “Politicians have this idea of locking up prisoners and throwing away the key to improve their ratings. They know that this is isn’t a good idea and contributes to overcrowded prisons, but it makes people vote for them because society thinks that putting all offenders in prison is the best thing to do” (Beck, 2012). Prison overcrowding in America is caused by a corrupt judicial …show more content…
Supreme Court one of the most overcrowded prisons in the America is in California. Overcrowding has led to conditions in California’s prisons horrendous. Justice Breyer, describe evidence of prisoners “found hanged to death in holding tanks where observation windows are obscure with smeared feces, and discovered catatonic in pools of their own urine after spending nights locked in small cages.” Federal Courts have found that an average of one inmate per week was dying in California prisons as a result of medical neglect or malfeasance. The prison health care system is so poor that the federal courts found it violates the constitutional rights of inmates. (Equal Justice Initiative,
Prison overcrowding is become one of the major financial and controversial problem in the United States. The prison population is increasing rapidly, and we have only one reason the judicial system is given length sentences to cases that don’t deserve it, for example most of the offenders in the United State prison are drug cases, these sentences must be considered and most of the drug offenders should be put in rehabilitation centers instead of putting them in prison. According to the Supreme Court, “America’s prison population has more than quadrupled since 1980. A special report released by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2007 predicts that the nation’s prison population will …show more content…
Lappin. In 2008, one guard in California was murdered by two inmates while another guard in Indiana was brutally stabbed. Also, a 2006 report from the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported inmate-on-staff assaults increased 6 percent over the prior year (Federal Bureau of prison, 2012). All these problems are results from prison overcrowding, however something is causing the major problem. Most of the people think that putting all offenders in prison or jail is the best solution for all the problems; however this is not necessarily the case. “Politicians have this idea of locking up prisoners and throwing away the key to improve their ratings. They know that this is isn’t a good idea and contributes to overcrowded prisons, but it makes people vote for them because society thinks that putting all offenders in prison is the best thing to do” (Beck, 2012). Prison overcrowding in America is caused by a corrupt judicial …show more content…
Supreme Court one of the most overcrowded prisons in the America is in California. Overcrowding has led to conditions in California’s prisons horrendous. Justice Breyer, describe evidence of prisoners “found hanged to death in holding tanks where observation windows are obscure with smeared feces, and discovered catatonic in pools of their own urine after spending nights locked in small cages.” Federal Courts have found that an average of one inmate per week was dying in California prisons as a result of medical neglect or malfeasance. The prison health care system is so poor that the federal courts found it violates the constitutional rights of inmates. (Equal Justice Initiative,