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A 10 page paper using the problem of prison violence to conduct an exercise in designing, implementing and evaluating policy changes. At least one author flatly states that prison violence is not affected by conditions of overcrowding, but that sole author appears to be a lone voice in his claims. Conventional wisdom and formal evidence indicate otherwise. Most inmates spend their days in boredom, and they are discouraged from preventing any violence that occurs within the prison. Policy change for education in critical thinking, utilitarianism and other abstractions is sought to be revealed in reduced prison violence. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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overcrowding and boredom. B. Problem Analysis 1. Overcrowding at Folsom Prison. 2. Problems of combining levels of offense. 3. Prison rape. 4. Inability for inmates to make any positive changes.
C. Goals and Objectives 1. Solitary confinement. 2. Boredom in prison. 3. Two broad goals. i. Reduce boredom. ii. Make better use of inmates time. D. Policy Design. E. Action
Plan. F. Policy Implementation. G. Evaluating Outcomes. H. Initiating Policy Design. Introduction Immortalized by Johnny Cash more than fifty years ago, Californias Folsom
Prison exemplifies the state of overcrowding in Americas prisons. Designed to house 2,065 inmates at a variety of security levels, Folsoms current population stands at 3,579 inmates (Folsom State
Prison), very close to double the population for which the prison was designed and augmented over the years. At least one author flatly states that prison violence is not
affected by conditions of overcrowding (Gaes 329), but that sole author appears to be a lone voice in his claims. Conventional wisdom and formal evidence indicate otherwise. Problem Analysis
Goodgame (1985) writes that Folsom Prison is one of Americas "best-known penitentiaries, and one of its worst" (20). Constructed in the early
1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, as its population has swelled to 70% more
than capacity and the rate of violent acts nearly tripled" (Goodgame 20). In 1985 alone, three inmates were killed and "130 others stabbed in unmanageable violence that has locked
the prison into what Criminologist Craig Haney calls a slow-motion riot" (Goodgame 20). The problem of prison violence is not limited to those
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