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15 pages in length. The United States lays claim the world's highest incarceration rate as a direct result of federal minimum sentencing requirements mandated by law in the 1980s. The result is that state correctional prison budgets are exploding and the national inmate population currently stands at no less than one million prisoners. Finding a viable solution to the problem has been plaguing a number of states, not the least of which is California, inasmuch as "...overcrowding requires an expansion of facilities or a dropping of the intake rate. Prison officials have no control over the capacities of their institutions or over the number of offenders that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, no date). The writer discusses potential alternatives and solutions, as well as provides statistical information concerning California's overcrowding problem. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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exploding and the national inmate population currently stands at no less than one million prisoners (Grayson, 1997). Finding a viable solution to the problem has been plaguing a number
of states, not the least of which is California, inasmuch as "...overcrowding requires an expansion of facilities or a dropping of the intake rate. Prison officials have no control
over the capacities of their institutions or over the number of offenders that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, no date). II. CALIFORNIAS OVERCROWDING PROBLEM
California, a state whose high-profile penal system has been under the gun of late due to what many deem as unfair funding taken from other
more socially important programs like schooling and welfare, has found itself embroiled in a screaming match between the public and private sectors. It can readily be argued that the
money shifted from education has caused a significant drop in literacy rates and, therefore, both causing and perpetuating the link between criminal activity and academic deficit. "Overcoming acute funding
problems, crowded classrooms and aging school buildings, Californias public school teachers are making progress in the struggle to improve student performance..." (Anonymous, 1999, p. 3569).
Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amounts of money that are required to accommodate the myriad recipients
of Californias mandatory minimum law. "In trolling for culprits with such a fine net, is the criminal justice system catching people who are not dangerous and for whom lengthy
prison terms are a waste, if not an injustice?" (Cannon, 1998, p. PG). The operation of prisons by the private sector became a vital option again during the 1980s
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