Causes of Prison Crowding
What kind of problem are we dealing with? As in most public Policy issues, this is an ill-structured or messy problem. It is more than a prison problem and therefore requires examination of larger related problems such as drug control Why is this problem messy or ill structured? One could classify the problem as such because it involves many decision makers (e.g., executive, Judicial), and it is the product of many rejected Policy alternatives. Messy and ill-structured problems are complex .and contain many interdependencies. The statistics point to these interdependencies but do not point to simple solutions--most such solutions would have major unintended consequences..