Correction

Over the past few years prison overcrowding has been overlooked for a long while. It places extreme pressure on correctional facilities. Between 1951 and 1981, judges were sending more and more people to prison, climaxing in major overcrowding problems in the late 1970s. Between staffing to even the ratio for faculty to inmate; it has become a very expensive controversy. With overcrowding in prisons, a lot of other issues come with it. You must think of healthcare for inmates, and safety hazards inside of the prison. But the real question here is can jail/prison overcrowding be alleviated? In my opinion, absolutely! There are a couple options we can take to take ease on this situation. To begin with, in order to fix and issue – we must identify the exact issue and then we can begin to look for solutions. But what can we do to fix it? Most people would start off by saying, “Just build more prisons!”. As a tax-paying citizen, would an increase in your taxes make you happy? I think not. According to research, the estimate cost to build a new prison is close to $9,328,510. While building or expanding prison capacity can reduce overcrowding, the decision to build is out of the question. Now, we can’t just pull $9 million out of the air, it would come out of all of our pockets. To list a couple of problems with prison overcrowding, let’s start with the living conditions. The average prison holds just about 1,000-2,500 inmates (depending on the size of the correctional facility). The living condition with that many people can be very stressful when it comes to housing. An option for this is to reduce the amount of pending cases for the inmates that are idle inside of the jail. Having a slow court system has the number of non-sentenced prisoners increasing substantially. Some non-sentenced prisoners may not have appeared in court for many reasons.
Another identified issue is the understaffing in faculty. Faculty is ranging from prison guards, janitors, etc. With the