Sentence examples for prison boom from inspiring English sources

President Clinton sent billions of dollars to state governments to construct more prisons--fueling the prison boom that swallowed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, including juveniles.

The private prison boom lasted into the 1990s.

(In the two decades that followed, the prison rolls in New York quintupled; other states followed, creating a nationwide prison boom).

The real background to the prison boom, which shows up only sporadically in the prison literature, is the crime wave that preceded and overlapped it.

New York's singular success has attracted attention across the country from public officials whose budgets have been strained by the prison boom.

Since the prison boom began in 1980, quadrupling the number of inmates in jails and prisons to two million, the recycling of criminals through prisons has gotten worse.

Mr Skarbek traces how they then developed into businesses, controlling prisons' booming illicit markets, especially in drugs.

California, which led the nation's prison building boom, will close five small, privately operated minimum security prisons when their contracts expire this year.

After two decades of passing ever tougher sentencing laws and prompting a prison building boom, state legislatures facing budget crises are beginning to rethink their costly approaches to crime.

The result was more fuel for a prison construction boom.

He shifted public and government focus to beefing up resources for a wild expansion of police power and a prison building boom.