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Overcrowding in the United States prison system has reached an all time high. ... By comparing how countries around the world deal with this problem, perhaps the United States can gain information on successful strategies other nations are taking,
The country of South Africa has overcome many reforms in their criminal justice system. ...
South Africa is being challenged, but slowly is rising above their overcrowding problem. According to the International Centre for Prison Studies at Kings College London, the United States has the largest prison population, where South Africa has dropped to the fifteenth rank due to their many reforms (Adams 1). ... Their overcrowding dilemma can be connected directly to the growth of South Africa’s reported crime since 1994. ... Compared to Japan, the Unites States incarceration rate becomes twenty times their rate, therefore the amount of prisoners held in the U.
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