Overcrowding Essay

not only the Eighth Amendment, but also the American with Disabilities Act and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The United States Supreme Court stated that California failed to provide adequate health care to the inmates because of overcrowding in the prisons. The Brown v Plata case was formed as one by two class action suits filed by two different California inmates. The first was the Coleman v. Wilson in 1990 by inmates who suffered from serious mental disorders. Plata v.…

One of the most inspiring books I read on the topic of prison overcrowding regarding racism was The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. She believes that the issue of mass incarceration should be referred as the issue of racial justice. She mentions the speech “I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King and how we as a nation have disobeyed his dream. The book was written during the time of President Barack Obama. It states, that as United States was…

number of 1.3million inmates while the incarceration rate increased with number of 400 per 100,000 (Clear et al., 2013). However, there seems to be little relationship between the crime rate and the incarceration rate. The United States prison overcrowding results from the increment in the rate of arrest and the approach to sentencing as the major means of punishment. Most prisons are relatively small and can only house a particular number of prisoners for a particular period of time compared…

faulty and friends has affected graduation, sporting events and classrooms. The community has been fighting for a change in Livonia High school for quite sometime now. It’s the only School in the parish and has the maximum capacity of students. Overcrowdings has put limitations on students learning as well as teachers delivering lessons on a daily basis. Mr. Wooley was a math teacher who still managed to teach and maintain his class room despite the…

Overcrowding and mass incarceration have been problems in the United States prisons for decades. Overcrowding can be traced back to the late 1970 's with an inmate population increase of 750% from the 70 's to present(Rogan). This increasing number of prisoners has had major negative effects, not only on the inmates themselves, but also on the surrounding communities that these inmates have been taken from and will eventually be released back into. The more mass incarceration that goes on the…

Drexler Fernandez Ronald B. Richardson English 93-004 11/1/2016 Overcrowding Problem Facing CCSF Classrooms It’s no surprise that California is experiencing overcrowdings in its classroom, California is after all “1st in the US most populated states” by the (World Population Review). So, thing like class rooms having more student then it is designed to accommodate is pretty is common. But that’s the problem a study conducted by the UCLA Institute of Democracy, Education and Access reported that…

crime after a person has already received punishment for previous offenses, in other words, “relapse.” Solutions and programs such as “HomeBoy Industries”, are a prime example of organizations trying to alleviate the problem of California’s prison overcrowding. Homeboy Industries program serves high-risk, formerly gang-involved men and women with a continuum of free services and programs, and operates several social enterprises that serve as job-training sites (HomeBoy). The program provides…

Teachers also can become affected by overcrowding. Overcrowding can mount loads of stress onto teachers. As teachers begin to confront overcrowding combined with the lack of resources and materials for learning, teachers begin dealing with class management ultimately taking away from their number one priority, teaching. Disruptions become more common and noise levels become greater affecting all students and their ability to learn. Another effect of overcrowding can be the deterioration of…

Throughout the United States overcrowding in correctional facilities has posed a universal violation of Human Rights in offender’s health and security. The United States Criminal Justice System and Human Rights Violations are recognized within the United Nations Charter- UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime violate article 1 & 5 and article 7 & 10 (1) of the ICCPR and of the 8th amendment Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, degrading Treatment or Punishment…

There are solutions to deal with prison overcrowding that have been proven to work. These come in the form of “reduction programs”. Most prison population reduction programs are founded on the principles of releasing prisoners as appropriately as possible to make space for new inmates. Furthermore, as quoted from Pitts, Griffin, and Johnson on reduction programs: “Generally referred to as backdoor strategies, prison population reduction usually entails providing early release incentives to…