A. Relieving Overcrowding by Building More Prisons

a. Relieving overcrowding by building more prisons
b. Strains staff morale
c. Cheaper than prison
d. Doing nothing about prison overcrowding
e. Incarceration rate above historical norms
f. African Americans/Hispanics
g. Higher prison populations as a whole
h. Average U.S. incarceration rate from 2000 to 2007
i. One of the causes of the current high incarceration rates
-Construction strategy