Overcrowding in Prisons

Running head : OVERCROWDING IN PRISON

Overcrowding in Prison

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Overcrowding in Prison

Introduction

According to Champion (2006 ) Prison , institution designed to securely house people who have been convicted of crimes . If a person committed a crime and is punishable by law they will undergo a process and if find guilty they will put to prison . Usually it takes 1 year but if serious even lifetime sentence

The person committed mistake since the ancient up to the present are increasing daily . If you are

to watch news you can hear and see accidents of rapes , holdups , robbery and other offenses . What do you think will happen ? This will result in increase in prisoners if the areas are small overcrowding will happen . Let me point out to you how these overcrowding started and what solution that the government in the past tried to overcome these and what usually the reasons for overcrowding and at recent the possible solution to theses problem

History of Overcrowding

This was started in the late July 6 , 1864 written by (Miller et al 2006 : 400 Confederate prisoners of war marched from Erie Station to the prison camp , becoming the first of 12 ,123 prisoners held in Elmira It was said to have been the worst prison camp in the North . The over crowding resulted to shortage of food supply and medicine that different diseases spread throughout the prisoners

If the shortage of the basic needs in prisons are encountered I can then figure out how the prisoners suffers when it comes to foods , maybe some cannot take it and this would results to starvation that later on losses their life . When it comes to lacks of medicines the diseases spreads cannot be prevented . Miller et al stresses that Disease overcrowding , and natural disaster took its toll . Of the 12 ,123 prisoners assigned to the camp , 2 ,963 died in all ' That 24 .44 population of the prisoners died because of crowding that some diseases strike in the prison of Elmira camp

Schlosser , Eric (1998 ) in his Atlantic Monthly writes Up until 1970s in the US about 110 prison inmates for every 100 ,000 people 1990s - 445 per 100 ,000 among adult men it is about 1 ,100 per 100 ,000 . He further added , In 1977 the inmate population of California was 19 ,600 . Today it is 159 ,000 (pp . 51-77

Solutions in the Past

The prisoners in Elmira were release at the end of war they give them passes enough to go home (Miller et al , 2006 . During the past two decades roughly a thousand new prisons and jails have been built in the United States ( pp . 51-77 . Many corrections officials and researchers agree it is not realistic to expect to solve overcrowding problems solely through the construction of more and newer facilities . Instead an alternatives to incarceration , such as community supervision and intermediate sanctions , ranging from fines to parole release was created (Rosenfeld Kempf , 1991 ,

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Furthermore , the Correctional Service of Canada...