s would agree that to today's criminals the risk of crime is outweighed by the profits because of the overcrowding in prisons. They know that all but the most violent or chronic offenders stand a good chance of getting a shortened prison term because of the problem of overcrowding. Taking this scenario one step farther, a few prisoners have managed to take legal action against the government because of the bad conditions in prison, calling it cruel and unusual punishment (Freeley, 1989, May, pp. 273-282). With more and more people being put into prison, the future of the U.S. prison system looks gri
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