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| Funding Shortage Causes Prison Overcrowding |
| By blackvoicenews.com - Freddie Allen |
| Published: 10/23/2012 |
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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Department of Justice will spend $6.6 billion this year to stack drug dealers, addicts, shooters, and illegal immigrants like Lego blocks in prisons that are overcrowded, understaffed and barely safe, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office. The GAO report found that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the agency that runs the federal penitentiary system, operated at 39 percent over recommended capacity nationwide and at 55 percent over capacity at high security facilities. From 2006 to 2011, prison population grew at 9.5 percent, outpacing the 7 percent growth in infrastructure and new beds. Prisons are staffed at 90 percent, the minimum safe standard for BOP. “According to BOP data, 81 percent of male inmates housed in low security facilities were triple bunked at the end of 2011,” the report stated. Read More. |
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