The Effects of Overcrowding in Prison

摘要: Prison crowding is often identified as the cause of inmate ill health and misconduct postrelease recidivism. Crowding can be measured objectively in several ways: terms floor space per prisoner, prisoners living unit, institutional population relative to stated capacity. Whether an perceives conditions crowded depends on objective differences within a prison's housing accommodations. Research prison has not, however, convincingly demonstrated many adverse effects crowding. The major findings which most researchers agree are (1) that housed large, open bay dormitories more likely visit clinics have high blood pressure than other arrangements (single-bunked cells, double-bunked small dormitories, large partitioned dormitories); (2) prisons contain somewhat higher assault rates do prisons; (3) hou...