Does Dale Maisano Get Better Food?

We were able to locate and review the lawsuit Robert Coleman v CDCR, et al. In the complaint the plaintiff alleges that he was moved from a bunk bed cell to a side by side cell, which he claims seriously affected his mental health disorder (schizophrenia). The inmate states that when he informed the C/O that he could not stay in the side by side cell the C/O retaliated against him by placing the inmate in a small cage that he had to stand in for approximately seven hours. According to the inmate, his medical disability prohibits him from standing for long periods of time and subsequently experienced right knee pain and swelling. The inmate also indicates that his placement in a modified program violated his rights against lack of yard time

Religious Freedom in prison cannot be taken away to any inmate as under Federal Law it states everyone can exercise his or her religion. Congress has passed two statutes that increase the protection of inmates’ First Amendment rights. These are the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000. Both statutes provide that government officials cannot execute a considerable problem on inmates’ religious rights unless they show their rule serves a compelling government interest in the least preventive way. Inmates have enjoyed the success of religion dietary practice where an inmate has the right to diet in accordance to their religious beliefs. Also, prisoners can avoid foods that are not allowed to be eaten per such belief. So, for some inmates who practice different believes, the court has ordered that certain diets be made available to inmates. This way they are not forced what they are not allowed to eat in their countries.

During my interview with Gary Davis, he stated that before he read my essay, he used to think that prisoners deserved to be in jail and that it didn’t matter to him what happens to those prisoners because they shouldn’t have violated the law. Davis also stated that after he finished reading my essay, he felt that, as human beings prisoners should have the right to not be punished in such cruel way that causes psychological side effects that could in turn affect us whenever those prisoners are reincorporated into society. In addition, the reader pointed out that the only knowledge he had about prisoners is that they are some really bad criminals in jail. Davis stated that he didn’t know the different types of prisons and also that he wasn’t

After travailing to Thailand, Shanghai, the Amazon and Madagascar, David Suzuki describes in his essay “Food Connections”, how Product, there producer, and contact with the earth, has been forgotten in industrial countries. He compares countries like Canada to third world countries.

Johnny sacks consist of a baloney sandwich, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, an apple and a pack of mustard with a small bag of chips in a brown paper bag. Johnny sacks were usually passed out to inmates for chow during the booking process. One inmate yelled “This is some hoe ass shit” and throws his against the wall. I threw my Johnny sack away because of the pork, and I don’t eat peanut butter and jelly but ate the apple and the chips. I thought to myself “Damn was I hungry!” It was more acceptable to throw food in the garbage than to allow another prisoner to even insinuate that he is applying to take it. Experienced prisoners constantly observed the going-on of everyone and everything in the tank. These prisoners listened to the other prisoner’s tones of voice next to them when they spoke and observe their posture, and the personal space that he commanded within the jail tank.

There are always poor conditions in the local jails every day that are talked about, and still nothing will never get done about it. Local jails are usually crowed into small cells. Odors are often strong and sickening food served does not always taste

The food is made by certain prisoners who are assigned for food service and are watched over by the guards, as they are preparing the food (Prison). Some prisons also have a salad bar for the inmates to munch on. There could be cooled foods such as beans and peas along with salad, at the salad bar. The inmates get water and a flavored drink of their choice at each meal. Well golly, prison food does not sound too bad!

One problem in America is how inmates are treated. They are not treated like humans but rather animals, and dangerous to people. However, this is untrue. Some prisoners are not dangerous and some even assumed innocent. Our jail and prison systems treat offenders like they are trash and not worthy of anything in life. Therefore when they claim that they are sick they do not get adequate health care.

Michael Tarver is a 55 year old man who is serving a life sentence for murder in Atlanta, Georgia. Tarver is a diabetic with circulation problems, while in jail he got a cut on his leg. After receiving this cut he went months in confinement without proper care and because of his diabetes he was prone to infection and had to have his leg amputated. In 2012 Tarver filed a lawsuit written in longhand and filed without the consultation of an attorney. Dr. Chiquita Fye is the 65 year old woman who has been the medical director at this prison since 2006. This “lawsuit asserted that Fye was deliberately indifferent to his injury as he languished for months in the prison infirmary. Deliberate indifference to a prison inmate’s medical needs violates the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.” (The Associated Press) Many inmates have filed lawsuits against this doctor all complaining that she neglected them of proper care. And there is so many other cases out there showing that prisons do not give proper care to inmates who need it.

Punishments such as torture and hard manual labor are no longer practiced under this law. However, for instance, nutraloaf, a prison meal comprised of ingredients such as raisins, spinach, dehydrated milk, raw carrots, and beans of various types, is debated as unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. As time writer Adam Cohen put it, “He had stomach pain and began vomiting. [The prisoner’s] weight fell 8.3 percent, from 168 pounds to 154 [pounds].” A few court cases have also ruled nutraloaf both legal, and on the other end of the spectrum, unconstitutional. The next issue also questions the legality of a court or correction system

In a year that comes out to $3,650,000, just to feed the inmates. That’s not all the prison is responsible for. They also have to provide adequate living arrangements and medical care for the

Whenever you imagine prison, you think up ideas and violent images that you have seen in the movies or on TV.   Outdated clichés consisting of men eating stale bread and drinking dirty water are only a small fraction of the number of horrible, yet “just” occurrences which are stereotypical of everyday life in prison.   Perhaps it could be a combination of your upbringing, horrific ideas about the punishment which our nation inflicts on those who violate its’ more serious laws that keeps people frightened just enough to lead a law-abiding life. Despite it’s success in keeping dangerous offenders off the streets, the American prison system fails in fulfilling its original design of restoring criminals to being productive members of society, it is also extremely expensive and wastes our precious tax dollars.

Each day, men, women and children are put behind bars suffer from lack of access to medical health care. Chronic illnesses go untreated, emergencies are ignored, and patients with serious illnesses fail to receive needed care. A small failure to medical care can turn in to death of an inmate if left untreated. Prisoners are humans whether inmates or not, with normal health issues or diseases. Even a common cold is an example of an illness that needs treatment. A lot with what is wrong with the health care system today, in the United States deals with money. Within prisons, it is an entire different story. The mission of medical care is to diagnose, comfort and cure. These goals are not being achieved within the prison system. Care needs to be given to every inmate, even the most despised and violent one among them all.

Having poor heath care within the prison system is something that is very dangerous. It can lead to things such as accidental deaths, worsening pre-existing conditions, and conditions occurring that could have been prevented if the proper care was

Freedom and confinement is the third most important theme in the movie, the Shawshank Redemption. There are many aspects of the inmates talking about what freedom is like, and how they are confined to Shawshank prison for a long time. In Shawshank they quite literally cannot do anything they want, they have to ask for everything. This can be no better seen than when Captain Byron Hadley said, “You eat when we say you eat! You s*** when we say you s***! You p*** when we say you p***!” Not only is this line of thought present in a fictional prison, but also in real life. There are TV shows out there that follow the cops of real life prisons, and real life prisoners do not have much more freedom. Then again, all things considered, prisoners have some freedoms, mainly in what they do during their yard times. The people who have it the worst, the one’s who have it like the quote, are the people who live under complete dictatorships. They cannot do anything, and I mean anything without the consent of