Effects of overcrowding in prisons
Prison overcrowding has been a big problem concerning maintaining some required standards by penal reforms international trust. Overcrowding in prisons has adversely caused health complications to prisoners. Violent conditions are collective actions in crowded prisons that are physically and mentally harmful to the prisoners. Insanitary, infection risks, increased stress, and mental stress are among the effects of the staff or prisoners, making their lives difficult.
Drugs use still a problem in prisons.
Drug affordability in terms of price and availability is among the factors contributing to drug use in prison. Drug use in prisons has continued to be a problem since they are availed as a remedy to those imprisoned through incarceration (Pauly, Wallace, Hobbs, & Connolly, 2020). It is hard to control drugs when available to prisoners with the price, which is affordable by the prisoners. It is becoming a problem because it increases its use in the prisoners as it is available as a business to senior officials in the government.
Overdose consideration is significant as it will help those addicted to rectify their overdose behavior, and this will be rectification mechanisms. In most cases, overdose prevention sites will help those drug addicts to reduce the rate and level of usage systematically according to health recommended ways. They are essential as they will have health service providers.
Case management is quite essential as it will be used as a piloting activity to see the level of success of the event before the actual starting. Case management is necessary to help the involved officer to evaluate the real situation before engaging many resources for the whole project.
Overdose prevention sites are somehow a sure way of rectifying the drug use situation as it involves health-care professionals. The opening of the sites is a sure way of reducing needle-in-the- cell. It’s a sure way as it will reduce guards who are there to control the drug use.