The Barber Amendment: FedCURE’s Method of Reducing Costs and Overcrowding in the Federal Bureau of Prisons
In 1980 the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had a budget of about $330 million and housed around 25,000 federal inmates. The number certainly wasn’t small, but it was manageable. In the last 30 years, this population has exploded: federal prisoners now number in excess of 219,000, which accounts for the 39% average overcrowding of