NCJ Number
102088
Journal
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume: 478 Dated: (March 1985) Pages: 161-172
Date Published
1985
Length
12 pages
Annotation
The National Prison Overcrowding Project has facilitated the establishment and operations of policymaking groups in Michigan, Colorado, South Carolina, and Oregon to produce long-term, systemic changes in those States that will relieve prison overcrowding.
Abstract
The National Prison Overcrowding Project, operated by the Center for Effective Public Policy, began in 1981 out of the desire of the National Institute of Corrections and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to launch a broad, systemic approach to controlling prison overcrowding in the States. The center has guided the development and operation of a policy group in each of the four States. Center staff work with State project staff to take the policy groups through a policymaking process that consists of problem definition and analysis, the establishment of prison population control objectives, the identification and selection of options to control crowding, the adoption of selected options, and implementation. Although center funding of the four State projects has ended, each of the States plans to continue project activities with State funds. A table lists the prison population control options considered by each State project. 7 footnotes.