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Prison Overcrowding: Impact Upon Correctional System : 4 pages in length. The writer reviews Sean Nicholson-Crotty's 2004 article entitled "The Politics and Administration of Privatization: Contracting out for Corrections Management in the United States" from Policy Studies Journal. No additional sources cited. TLCPrisOvrIm.rtf
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that are required to accommodate the myriad recipients of Californias mandatory minimum law. The operation of prisons by the private sector became a vital option again during the 1980s
and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopolitical climate favoring the reduction of taxes and government size. Second was the
implementation of "get-tough" social control policies, particularly the "war on drugs," and increasing mandatory prison sentences. These policies resulted in an unprecedented increase in federal and state prison populations,
which rose from 315,974 in 1980 to 883,656 in 1992, a 180% increase (Shichor et al, 1995). According to the authors, this steep augmentation in inmate population growth resulted
in major problems of prison crowding, which, in turn, resulted in putting about four fifths of the state under court order to reduce prison crowding. California has led the nation
in implementing one of the harshest mandatory minimum sentence laws, where a number of public proprietary facilities have been utilized as a means by which to house the additional inmates;
at the same time, however, the Golden State, one 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. Shichor et al (1995) note how
six of these facilities have been in court with the California Department of Corrections to retain funds they claimed were inherent to such private facilities funds. What appears to
have occurred is the process for contracting with public proprietary facilities in California was flawed from the outset; the fact that the experiment with public proprietary facilities in California had
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