The Implications of Overcrowding for Fostering Prisoners in Prison: Management and Systems Problems

Abstract

The problem of overcrowding stems from the overcrowding capacity of the Penitentiary, thus raising various problems and relegating correctional goals to a forgotten concept. Against this backdrop, the current study is aimed at determining the implications of correctional overcrowding of prison institutions in the process of fostering inmates and finding solutions in order to improve management and correctional systems in the future. This study adopts a normative approach using qualitatively analyzed secondary data. The results show that the overcrowding problem has seriously adverse implications for coaching programs, causing illness, triggering disturbances between prisoners, burdening state finances each year, and transferring prisoners to other prisons, which, in turn, makes it difficult for families to visit inmates. These problems are preventing the coaching process from achieving the goal of criminal justice. Efforts to overcome the problem of overcrowding include reducing the use of imprisonment sanctions and making replacements in the form of other sanctions that have deterrent power, building new buildings accompanied by facilities that support the basic needs of prisoners, reforming management or a system starting from strengthening the prison officers' integrity, improving the quality of coaching programs, and ensuring welfare of officers.