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The Pros And Cons Of Private Prison Overcrowding

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This behavior hardly exhibits the qualities of social responsibility and is the epitome of inhumanity. Prisoners are not able to advocate for their basic rights outside of confessing them to the guards. The gassing of prisoners is surely not warranted by non-violent, possibly reasonable, complaints. Furthermore, an effective administration of private prisoners does not need to resort to tear gas to subdue to complaints of prisoners. Additionally, CoreCivic (CCA) was not properly equipped to handle the prisoners it accommodated, which could very well have attributed why such drastic measures were taken against the prisoners. “The medium-security prison was actually taking many maximum-security inmates… [the] CCA guards were ill prepared… …show more content…

In a country with an extensive mass incarceration issues, prison overcrowding is commonplace. Therefore, states often turn to outside sources to relieve this stress. “The relief of overcrowding is the second major reason for the use of private prisons and includes both out-of-state transfer of inmates and in-state use of private facilities. In California, for example, the courts required a timely reduction of overcrowding, which led directly to the use of out-of-state contract prisons, as California does not allow private facilities to be built within its borders for state use…” (Blackstone and Hakim). Our society would be anarchy without law, however, humanitarianism should not be sacrificed for the sake of the law. Inmates require rehabilitation to learn from their mistakes. Confining someone in a cell to contemplate their actions does not leave sufficient room for improvement. This is especially true when the inmate is required to perform manual labor for next to nothing and seldom receives proper education, skills training, or techniques for coping and improving their lives. When a state must resort to out-sourcing human beings to relieve congestion in the judicial system, it is the judicial system that needs reform as well as the system, and merits, for

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