Prison overcrowding is one of America most urgent criminal justice issues. With people getting locked up for drugs and other crimes there is so much overcrowding in the united states that we are facing a big problem with states having shrinking state budgets and very little resource to be able to build new prison are added on the ones they have, some state have started selling some of their prisons to independent company that buy the prison from the state and run them their self. The most of them being drug cases are drug related cases are the main reason for the high rate of incarceration. Another thing that can be done is alternative drug sentences is a way to cut the cost of housing a growing prison population that has led most corrections administration to cut or eliminate drug-treatment and education programs. This provides the courts with alternative sentencing options. One other thing is the immigration which raises three significant, controversial issues in criminal justice. The first being the time and resources necessary to deport immigrants—documented and undocumented of the one who have committed
Prison overcrowding is one of America most urgent criminal justice issues. With people getting locked up for drugs and other crimes there is so much overcrowding in the united states that we are facing a big problem with states having shrinking state budgets and very little resource to be able to build new prison are added on the ones they have, some state have started selling some of their prisons to independent company that buy the prison from the state and run them their self. The most of them being drug cases are drug related cases are the main reason for the high rate of incarceration. Another thing that can be done is alternative drug sentences is a way to cut the cost of housing a growing prison population that has led most corrections administration to cut or eliminate drug-treatment and education programs. This provides the courts with alternative sentencing options. One other thing is the immigration which raises three significant, controversial issues in criminal justice. The first being the time and resources necessary to deport immigrants—documented and undocumented of the one who have committed