Recent events in Latin American prisons that cost the life of hundreds of inmates have people looking into the living situation and overcrowding faced in many penitentiary centers, and analyzing if they are tragedies waiting to happen. 
Matukio ya hivi karibuni katika magereza ya Amerika ya Kusini yanayogharimu maisha ya mamia ya wafungwa yamesababisha watu kuyaangalia mazingira ya kuishi na kujazana mno kunakoyakabili magereza hayo, na kuainisha iwapo kuna majanga yanayongoja kutokea.