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The Capacity of Prison Overcrowding
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1992
by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1992, page 5
The Capacity Of Prison Overcrowding
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding.
Locations:
California,
United States of America.
By Wm. Daniel M. Ravenscroft, Attorney At Law
A major difficulty in describing the extent of prison overcrowding is that there is no general agreement as to the definition of the "capacity' of overcrowded institutions.
To merely count the number of prison beds and inmates ...
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