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Makeshift Space for Inmates as Prisons Exceed Capacity

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May 20, 2008 Makeshift Space for Inmates as Prisons Exceed Capacity By JENNIFER 8. LEE New York?s federal prisons are letting inmates sleep in areas not originally designed for inmate beds ? like television rooms ? because of overcrowding in excess of 50 percent, according to correspondence with the Federal Bureau of Prisons released on Monday by Senator Charles E. Schumer. According to Harley G. Lappin, the director of the bureau, more than 5,700 inmates were in New York federal prisons on an average day in the 2007 fiscal year, far above the recommended population of 3,600. Each of New York?s four federal prisons is at least 50 percent over capacity, with the federal prison in Ray Brook at a high of 61.2 percent over. The prisons in Ray Brook, in Essex County, and Otisville, in Orange County, are the two federal institutions in New York State now housing inmates in areas not designed for sleeping, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).