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Criminal Justice @ CSULB University Library

News from the Library, for the Criminal Justice Community at California State University Long Beach

Monday, April 24, 2006

Prison Overcrowding to Worsen

According to a report issued by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 23,000 additional felons will need to be housed in California's packed prisons within five years. This has led some criminal justice experts to predict that, without expanding existing prisons, or building new prisons, the increased population may be housed in tents.

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