PUB2602
Assessment 2
Semester 2
Due: Thursday, 21 September 2023, 11:00 PM
Assignment Instructions
Correctional services and institutions, like prisons, contribute in a unique way to protect the
community, to maintain law and order and to prevent crime. Sometimes prisons carry the additional
burden of overcrowding.
Against this background, write a concise essay of roughly four (4) pages, making use of study material
and additional online resources, in which you describe the effects of overcrowded prisons on the
achievement of the objectives of the Department of Correctional Services.
, Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 1
Department of Correctional Services .................................................................................................... 1
Effects Of Overcrowded Prisons ............................................................................................................. 1
Privacy. .................................................................................................................................................... 1
Violent And Aggressive Behaviour. ........................................................................................................ 1
Hygienic Implications. ............................................................................................................................ 2
Antisocial Activities. ............................................................................................................................... 2
Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................. 2
Reference ................................................................................................................................................ 3