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Prisons remained overcrowded in 2000: twenty-two states and the federal prison system operated at 100 percent or more of their highest capacity.
Overcrowding contributed to the growth of private prisons: according to the Department of Justice privately-operated facilities held 5.5 percent of all stateprisoners and 2.5 percent of federal prisoners.
Inmates at Wisconsin's new super-max prison filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the conditions to which they were subjected, including round-the-clock confinement in isolation, constant fluorescent lighting in their cells, twenty-four hour video monitoring that permitted female staff to watch prisoners shower and urinate, and inadequate recreation.
Regarding the states' needs, NCCD has estimated that $10.6 billion to $15.1 billion could be needed to construct additional prisons to accommodate anticipated inmate population increases from 1995 to 2000 and that $21.9 billion could be needed by the end of the decade to operate these prisons.
The corresponding average annual prison population growth rate during this period was 8.5 percent (9.9 percent for the federal population and 8.4 percent for the state populations).
Stateprison operating costs grew from about $2.8 billion in fiscal year 1980 to $15.8 billion in fiscal year 1994, which is an increase of 222 percent based on constant dollars.
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