Better Ways to End Prison Overcrowding

The United States accounts for only 5% of the world's population, prison inmate is one in four people, more than two million people. In the past decade, the drug war has filled many states and federal prisons with numerous prisoners. Construction of a new prison is not an answer to prison overcrowding. Due to economic constraints, the United States has no funds and can not solve this problem at all. "California could be forced to release up to 33,000 prisoners by 2013" (Shapiro & Wizner, 2011, p. 1).

For most of the past 20 years, California's prison system has become a hot topic. It is estimated that the California prison system accounted for 200% of the capacity in 2006 ("California"). This serious overcrowding affects not only the California State Correction Rehabilitation Center (CDCR) but also the prisoners and staff, but it also affects the entire society. - INTRODUCTION In recent years, methods to replace imprisonment have been sought for overcrowding of correctional systems. Intermediate sanction is one of the options. Long-term sanctions were adopted in the United States for the benefits and choices of intermediate sanctions to reduce overcrowding from money savings, but that has its misfortune mistake. There are many choices for intermediate sanctions, but some are in the back.

In order to solve the overcrowding problem in the Canadian prison, we need to develop a better rehabilitation program to reduce prisoner imprisonment and impose death penalty. Congestion overcrowding is a major problem as it brings direct and indirect problems and dangers to society. Because of overcrowding, the government is wasting millions of dollars each year, but other government agencies need it very much. Overcrowding within a prison is a major problem that the government has to deal with as soon as possible.

Unavoidable overcrowding affects the prisoners involved, caring for their staff, and the entire prison system. In many prison systems, overcrowding is not uniform. Statistically, the prison group may be living in a crowded house even if it shows that there is no overall overcrowding situation. This is especially true for pre-trial and remand prisoners in Western Europe and Eastern Europe. One measure of overcrowding is the habitation space of each prisoner. The European Torture and Inhuman Action Prevention or Degradation Treatment or Punishment (CPT) committee recommends 4 square meters per person as a means to improve the level of unacceptably overcrowding.