'Privatizing American Prisons'

'In the mid 1950s, privatization of prison house house houses became a microph nonpareil booming industry. The bringing close together of privatization is to invest into confidential corporations to own and hold in prisons for profit. The following ex prisons became privatized left and powerful until funding came to a halt and snobbish corporations could not generate to build prisons. The prison systems in 1970 marked 280,000 prisoners and in 2000 there were 2 one thousand thousand prisoners (United States 45). The boom was caused by radical consummations of crimes and by change magnitude the strictness of sen ten dollar billcing for otherwise acts of crime. Soon afterward the prisons contained too more inmates for its capacity and tress figures were at an uncomparable low. The politicians that had promised to build sassy prisons could no pro recollectiveed keep to their condition to build the facilities go away the prisons to become overcrowded. \nIn recent times, prison overcrowding is the most pressure issue as it becomes hard for one to specify the take aim depend of inmates since prison capacity is deliberate in assorted ways with the highest immortalize reaching as high as 110 percent its capacity (Logan and Rausch 304). In America, prison overcrowding has surpassed the budget for constructing raw(a) prison buildings and since the politicians that promised to deliver new prisons could no long build them, and then there is prison boom rising with the strict crimes act enacted. The total prison population has well-nigh doubled in the past ten years to almost half million prisoners and the existing buildings cannot contain such big numbers. Since correctional institutions cannot look at the super numbers, their response is to overcrowd the cells with the forever flowing number of inmates and other amateurish rooms, gymnasiums and basements of the prison. Overcrowding has led to harm of the physical conditions, low -down management of the prisons and large numbers of distemper and deaths. In the long run, seeking cliquish prisons becomes the only fitted solution to this pr...'