article_snippet: With nearly four thousand inmates, nearly four thousand inmates are forced to continue to rub shoulders with murders and violent offenders at the 640 acre site. '
article_snippet: According to the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the state has one of the largest prison systems in the world.
article_snippet: In the past two decades, the system has grown 554 per cent, raising the number of inmates from 24,569 to 160,655.
article_snippet: The Atlantic Monthly asserts that the CDCR 'holds more inmates in the CDCR ' jails and prisons than do France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the Netherlands combined.'
article_snippet: Prison officials say that children born to criminal parents are also more likely to commit crimes children born to criminal parents, creating a perpetual cycle that contributes to the growing prison population.