When discussing solutions to prison overcrowding, you often hear the response, “Build it and they will come,” especially from prisoner advocacy groups. This means that building more prisons just invites more use of prisons by the courts and discourages the use of effective alternatives to incarceration. Can you find any research to support or dispute this?
Some refer to prisons as “monuments to social neglect”, meaning that prisoners have experienced significant problems in their lives leading up to incarceration. But, can you find research that concludes that prisons are an effective way to change behavior and reduce recidivism?
Integrate into both your answer to both questions some of what you learned in this week’s readings in the course text.
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