Prisons_In_Th_US

Prisons In Th US Many prisons throughout the United States have been experiencing the problem of over crowdedness. This is not a new issue though; in April of 1978 New York State was already feeling the affect of crowded prisons. In an attempt to alleviate the problem the state tried to buy Richers Island from New York City. Since then a rise in population and in poverty have increased the problem. The main problem was coming up with programs that kept criminals off the streets without overpopulating the prisons. One example of how the government tried to make the streets safer was by imposing mandatory minimum sentences. They were designed to put people behind bars that until then were being released with nothing more than a slap on the wrist. The problem began when they realized that although fewer criminals were on the streets there were also more in prison, which took up space for new prisoners, who in some cases should be there before the ones that already inhabited the jail. There have been many new experimental programs in which the government is trying to keep the prison population down. Some of these have proved to be very successful while others have failed. time, should, people, problem, serve, new, mandatory, shock, drug, sentencing, sentences, prisons, minimum, agree, streets, sentence, receive, jail, first, designed, criminals, although, against, york, years, training, state, society, released, put, programs, prison, physical, one, offender