Prison overcrowding requires immediate action from state leaders

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A billboard outside Central Prison in Raleigh promotes job seekers’ open interviews. Now, 40% of North Carolina’s jail officials are unemployed. Clayton Henkel took the picture.

Everyone is aware that prison is a challenging environment for both the inmates inside and the professionals our government employs to oversee them.

Of course, this is appropriate on one level, particularly for those who are incarcerated. A prison term is a punishment for serious violations of social norms, not a holiday.

But it’s also true that nearly everyone who goes to jail or prison will eventually return to society and, ideally, lead fulfilling lives.

With thousands of inmates and security guards compelled to live and work together in appallingly underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and hazardous conditions, it is hard to overestimate how catastrophic and shortsighted our state’s current prison situation has become in light of this basic fact.

The bottom line: State lawmakers have all the funds necessary to pursue the obvious answer to our jail dilemma, which is to allocate more resources to improve facilities and hire more staff at fair compensation. Take action immediately.

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