week 7 NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE

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Student’s Name

Institutional Affiliation

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After reviewing the topic options given, I decided to base my focus on overcrowding in

correctional facilities. Here, I will be discussing on overcrowding in male correctional facilities.

Prison overcrowding is seen to create a great risk to inmates and the correctional officers who

work there (Cruz, X., 2020). It is seen that prison systems and county jails are nearly all either at

or over capacity. This results to inmates, who are mostly males, being forced to sleep on the floor

or in the dayroom. These inmates get little opportunity to go outdoors to exercise or get fresh air.

The Steering Committee of Humanitarian Response has represented hundreds of men in class

action lawsuits where they challenge the consequences of severe overcrowding. This causes issues

such as violence and excessive use of force by the corrections officers as they try to bring order

after chaos which has been created. In addition, overcrowding in correctional facilities has led to

poor medical care and intolerable living conditions. For example, Fulton County Jail, a male

correctional facility, began sending hundreds of inmates to southwest Georgia in an effort to ease

overcrowding (Robinson, M., 2018). Therefore, it is important that other correctional facilities be

set up in order to prevent the current overcrowding in prison.

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References

Cruz, X. (2020). Prison overcrowding and the safety of correctional officers at work.

Robinson, M. (2018). A Case Study of Overcrowding in a County Jail in the Southeast United

States.