Prison crowding
This graph shows how great the overpopulation in prisons are. There has been a steady increase in new inmates and prisons are now housing nearly double the capacity they were built for.
Prison crowding is not a new issue but since the prison population has grown so much in recent years, researchers have become interested in the effect it has on the inmates.
The overpopulation in prison has been occurring for many reasons. One reason is that people feel safer having offenders locked up in prison so the criminal justice system responds by arresting more people and sending them to prison.
Another cause is the get tough on crime attitude that the justice system has taken. There are crimes which have mandatory sentences that offenders face if they are found guilty. Also with this comes more drug related arrests. The majority of prison inmates are not murders and rapists as the media would have you believe, but they are drug offenders.
This is a link to a trailer of a movie entitled, Let's Go To Prison. It is a comedy but they point out some interesting facts about our justice system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7pNiELcZsg
Prison crowding is not a new issue but since the prison population has grown so much in recent years, researchers have become interested in the effect it has on the inmates.
The overpopulation in prison has been occurring for many reasons. One reason is that people feel safer having offenders locked up in prison so the criminal justice system responds by arresting more people and sending them to prison.
Another cause is the get tough on crime attitude that the justice system has taken. There are crimes which have mandatory sentences that offenders face if they are found guilty. Also with this comes more drug related arrests. The majority of prison inmates are not murders and rapists as the media would have you believe, but they are drug offenders.
This is a link to a trailer of a movie entitled, Let's Go To Prison. It is a comedy but they point out some interesting facts about our justice system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7pNiELcZsg