Main medical effects of overcrowded prisons

Historically prisons themselves became overcrowded

Historically prisons did not become

Three prison crowding solutions

Benefits of minimum security (or open) institutions

The dominate trend in reducing prison overcrowding

Policy implications in choosing to build our way out of overcrowding

Reasons for unprecedented level of prison growth since 1980

Glaring truth that renders these policies for building unsupportable

The dominant solution to reduce prison overcrowding