Abstract
This study examines the Alabama Department of Corrections August 2009 Monthly Statistical Report and Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Report, recent articles to explain the serious public safety issue of prison overcrowding within the state of Alabama, lack of funding and correctional staff, and increasing violence among inmates. It is imperative that the stakeholders take a restorative justice approach to offenders who commit nonviolent crimes or otherwise be prepared to release substantial numbers of violent inmates due to federal court intervention, expanding parole, and other types of early release programs. Violent offenders will pose a greater threat to the community. Correctional workers continue to be exposed daily to the risk of injury or death caused by severe prison overcrowding. The state could experience additional financial hardship to rebuild a destroyed correctional facility in an event of a riot. The excessive use of incarceration for nonviolent offenders is one of the most important issues facing the state of Alabama this decade.
Highlights
As of August 2009, the state inmate population reached 31,586 (August 2009 Monthly Report)
The jurisdictional population consists of all offenders with a court ordered sentence of incarceration in a state correctional facility (Fiscal Year, 2008)
The state of California and other states, such as Michigan, Oregon, Colorado, and Illinois have tinkered with parole, early release programs, and the sentencing laws due to prison overcrowding (Davey, 2010)
Summary
As of August 2009, the state inmate population reached 31,586 (August 2009 Monthly Report). The jurisdictional population consists of all offenders with a court ordered sentence of incarceration in a state correctional facility (Fiscal Year, 2008). Alabama ranks 17th in the nation in the number of females serving a prison sentence according to a 2007 Department of Justice statistical report (Fiscal Year, 2008).
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