The Overcrowding Issues topic provides news, columns, and expert opinion on the dangerous issue of prison overcrowding. From legislation intended to combat the issue to how corrections staff can stay safe and successfully manage the problem within their facilities, this page is a key resource for COs everywhere.
A 263-page document says the design of the state's prisons, overcrowding and understaffing make it "impossible" to keep COs and inmates safe from COVID-19
The Penobscot County Jail regularly boards out over 50 inmates while the county develops plans for a new jail designed to eliminate long-term overcrowding
Officials believe the closure of a dilapidated state prison will increase overcrowding ten months after the U.S. DOJ said prison conditions violate the Constitution
Gov. Andy Beshear hopes the purchases in high-unemployment areas would attract corrections officers to the vacant positions, ease overcrowding at local jails