RT Article
T1 Coping with crowding: The prison system response to the crowding crisis
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 13
IS 2
SP 240
OP 256
A1 McCarthy, Bernard J.
LA English
YR 1989
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764274083
AB The prison crowding problem in the United States has been described by the Department of Justice as one of the most critical problems facing the criminal justice system (Gettinger, 1984). During the past several years numerous state and federal, public and private task forces and advisory groups have proposed solutions to the crisis but, as of yet, the proposals advanced by criminal justice policy analysts have done little to ease the crowding crisis. In light of the failure of various planning groups to deal with the problem of crowding, this paper examines how the correctional systems have coped with prison crowding through the use of shortterm ad hoc solutions during the 1980s.
K1 Federal Court
K1 Justice Statistics
K1 Correctional Facility
K1 Prison Population
K1 Criminal Justice
DO 10.1007/BF02887512