Crowded prisons: A review of psychological and environmental effects.
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Law and Human Behavior
- Vol. 3 (3) , 217-225
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01039792
Abstract
Summary This Comment has suggested that prison overcrowding has multiple effects on prisoner adjustment. These effects grow from a taxing of both existing facilities and programmatic/procedural capabilities. While most of the cited inadequacies predate and, indeed, may occur in the absence of severe overcrowding, they are now magnified to grotesque proportions. Thus, current widespread prison overcrowding should serve to hasten our reexamination of basic correctional processes.Keywords
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