Corrections Officer Joseph Gomm

State prison unrest exposes overcrowding, understaffing

October 3, 2018 - by Dwight Hobbes

“Prison overcrowding is a vast issue in Minnesota,” according to Kellerlawoffices.com. “With many policymakers insistent on the need for stricter sentencing and no tolerance for multiple-offense inmates, state prisons are bursting at the seams [and] any space the releases make available is almost immediately occupied by new inmates.”