Prison over Crowding
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Prison OvercrowdingShirley RamizCapella UniversityIntroduction In the prison system there are many concern, but the crowding of the prison is a key factor. Crimes are being committed on a daily basis and this has become a huge problem in the criminal justice field. Subsequently in 2002, the United States has had the top highest imprisonment percentage in the world. Even though penitentiary populations are accumulating in a majority of the world, the ordinary rate of the prison incarceration system for certain countries are equivalent to the United States which inclines to be around or about 100 inmates per 100,000 population. The U.S. percentage is 500 inmates each 100,000 citizens, or about 1.6 million inmates in 2010, this is according to the up-to-date information from data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (
Perspective Section Since I would like to hold the position of a Correctional Counselor. The role I desire is that of Warden Stevenson. Even though he had no control of the situation at hand of the overcrowding of the prison system. The overcrowding of the penitentiaries can cause a lack of medical care for the inmates and unsanitary conditions. I have worked in the penitentiary system and you have inmates who had been incarcerated for at least a month and did not have proper clothes and hygiene products. As working in the system and having to deal with the inmates on a daily basis I tried to talk to the officers about issuing hygiene products and clothes for them, but it didn’t work (ir.lawnet.fordham.edu). The Warden understood what was going on and the issues that were at the prison, but he and his staff could not help the situation. They were affected by the state of the penitentiary. Tewksbury (2010) describes the process of the inmate population rising and the impact it has on the operations of the facilities and the costs and the stress it causes on the staff. I agree with a belief that the warden has believing the overcrowding will cause an increase in the crime rate. I think it will, because if you have to many people living in a living quarters there will be more issues, more time for them to contemplate, especially when you have a prison similar to the one Im currently at. Where gang affiliation and race is a big issue. You have certain tables and certain areas you can sit at, certain showers to use, certain cells to be housed in and once you overstep these boundaries a race or gang riot will break out.