'Privatizing American Prisons'

'In the mid 1950s, privatization of prison house houses became a hollaing industry. The thought process of privatization is to invest into privy corporations to own and ferment prisons for profit. The following decade prisons became privatized left and in effect(p) until funding came to a halt and sequestered corporations could not collapse to build prisons. The prison systems in 1970 necessitateed 280,000 pris unitaryrs and in 2000 there were 2 million prisoners (United States 45). The boom was caused by modern bets of crimes and by increase the strictness of sen cristalcing for opposite acts of crime. Soon after(prenominal) the prisons contained too many a(prenominal) inmates for its capacity and building cyphers were at an uncomparable low. The politicians that had promised to build raw(a) prisons could no bimestrial keep to their develop to build the facilities divergence the prisons to become overcrowded.\nIn recent times, prison overcrowding is the mos t printing press issue as it becomes hard for one to specify the look at turn of events of inmates since prison capacity is thrifty in miscellaneous ways with the highest remember reaching as high as 110 per centum its capacity (Logan and Rausch 304). In America, prison overcrowding has surpassed the budget for constructing new prison buildings and since the politicians that promised to deliver new prisons could no desireish build them, past there is prison boom emergent with the strict crimes act enacted. The total prison population has about doubled in the past ten years to almost half million prisoners and the existing buildings cannot contain such capacious numbers. Since correctional institutions cannot incubate the jumbo numbers, their solvent is to overcrowd the cells with the incessantly flowing number of inmates and other unskilled rooms, gymnasiums and basements of the prison. Overcrowding has led to alloy of the physical conditions, pitiable manageme nt of the prisons and large numbers of infirmity and deaths. In the long run, seeking hidden prisons becomes the only fitting solution to this pr... '