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
-War on drugs
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