ICRC Team Observation Report

The police used the art of surprise coupled with a lack of information during arrests. The shock of the abruptness of the arrests, public embarrassment, as well as being arrested at random times (especially in broad daylight) could all be labeled as contributing factors that would lead the people to feel confused, fearful and dehumanized. The behavior of the “prison staff” (informing the prisoners of their “serious offenses” and showering them to remove their germs and lice) could certainly without a doubt cause the detainees to feel embarrassed and confused. Not only would this be degrading for them,

Four concrete walls, a steel bed, and a sink to soak the unclean clothes in as well as an insignificantly compact restroom. Welcome to solitary confinement where the lights always stay on and there’s always room for just one, you. When we think about solitary confinement we probably think of a killer or rapist getting what they deserve. What we don’t see is another human life being psychologically destroyed. Some of these prisoners have been in solitary confinement from a couple of years to decades. It is true that these are not honorable or peace keeping men, but a human life being tortured by solitude is a torture no one deserves.

Based on the capacity of the prison at the time of the order, this meant reducing the prison population from about 150,000 inmates to 110,000. This was at about a 17% drop in the inmate population that made the living conditions in the prison, to say the least, fit for a human being to reside in. Previously there “…would be double and triple-bunks lined up against the walls and rows and rows until you hit the other wall…” (Valenzuela 2013). The Chino Institution for Men (CIM) in this example was at double its design capacity around the year 2004, and now it has achieved a major drop in inmate numbers. The inmates were crammed into a gym area at the CIM, and upon seeing images of this, proponents of prison reforms said that it violated inmates eighth amendment rights, and that changes had to

The United States and United Nations have passed many similar declarations directed towards the treatment of convicted persons, some even regarding racially motivated violations. Though accounts of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and detainees state that many immigrant detention facilities violate these declarations and even the rules within the Detention Operations Manual - 2008 Performance Based Standards. Some of the major complaints within the current immigrant detention systems describe that there is incompetent health care, detainees’ experiences with physical and sexual abuse, overcrowding, discrimination from facility staff, and racism within the system (Jawetz and Patel, 2008). Dental and medical care have unreasonable long delays, and also ignore health requests made by detainees. This increases the risks of detainees’ health and waiting for medical attention can extend their stay in the center. Overcrowding within cells and sleeping areas causes distress and tension within the detainees and can increase the risk of abuse from other detainees and faculty. Sexual and verbal abuse is from guards and other detainees, especially within the detention centers in jails and prisons. These abuses are often unreported due to the trouble detainees have contacting people outside the institute.

In these detention centers, immigrants are often denied medical care, even if they are very ill, and served poor quality food and drinks. They are treated like criminals, yet have not been charged with criminal offenses (Werner). Since 2003, ninety people have died in immigration custody. Many immigrants in the detention centers are also often neglected lawyers. Oftentimes, people are waiting six months for a twenty-minute asylum interview (Hendricks). As a result of rights not being withheld, immigrants are getting unfair treatment.

Accordingly, the inmates mostly just wanted better living conditions, and to be treated more like people and less like criminals. The inmates wanted religious freedom. They wanted to have basic needs met such as the toilet paper issue as well as the showering, and they

Soon everything the prisoners did became a privilege, including using the bathroom. Lights were shut off at ten o’clock at night and after that point, the prisoners would be forced to use the buckets left in their cell as toilet; this further tarnished the environment of the prison.

They lost privileges such as sleeping, and eating and for solitary confinement or the hole they were placed in a small dark closet blindfolded. In Abu Ghraib, isolation for a prisoner meant little or no clothes, no toilet, no running, no ventilation or window for three days. The Stanford experiment and the guards in Abu Ghraib engaged in resembling crude acts by denying them bedding, heat, stripping the inmates naked in a fly eagle position, placing chains on their ankle, and bags or hoods over their heads. Stanford the prisoners were forced to wear hospital gowns exposing their genitals. Threatening, and manipulating inmates were considered the

The overcrowding prison reflects that the inmate population has grown much faster than the funding for prisons, which is controlled at the state level. In most cases, state funding has not come close to keeping up with the rise in the prison population, leading to decrepit prison infrastructure that is wholly inadequate for housing such large numbers of inmates. Without capacity to house inmates properly, some prisons have resorted to having prisoners sleep in gymnasiums, and many have overcrowded cells to accommodate the extra bodies. This overcrowding has led to deteriorating cleanliness of prisons and declining safety. Today, non-violent prisoners are forced to live in close quarters with violent ones, and the results are predictable.

All of the new prisoner arrivals are put through a sort of cleaning process. They are stripped of all clothing, except their shoes and belts. The Kapos have them go to the “barber” to have all the hair on their bodies shaved off. The prisoners run to the next barrack where they are disinfected and showered. Then to the next barrack where they get their prison uniforms. The process was so barbaric that they“. . . had ceased to be men”. (37) It is inhumane because they are taking away all their rights and belongings, and they're treating them as if they are infected with a contagious disease.

I am the director and danger administrator for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice jail frameworks. I needed to converse with you about the issues concerning ex-cons and detainees. Our jail frameworks are not giving detainees a chance to enhance themselves. I have looked into the issues concerning our jail frameworks, which are absence of instruction, legitimate preparing, expanded populace, living conditions, and emotional wellness sicknesses. There is an expanding pattern with these issues.

A few detainees require specialized curriculum that isn't accessible in a few penitentiaries or correctional facilites. Since the individual carried out the wrongdoing they don't merit exclusive lodging. Congestion conditions can prompt expanding brutality. Due to a lot of detainees and a substantially littler measure of gatekeepers they have a feeling that they are losing control of the jail. In packed penitentiaries the possibility or strikes, suicides and mental issue.

At least six inmates said that the shower had been used to punish inmates who misbehaved. And three reported that they themselves had been subjected to punishing showers (Brown, 2017). Even if it was not a typical form of solitary confinement, it shows that putting prisoners who have mental disabilities in solitary confinement will cause more harm than good. Throughout the investigation, it is said that there was a lot of evidence that was tampered with and investigators interviewed specific people to protect the facility from being exposed from the abuse of prisoners. These special populations are being proposed for the better treatment of the prisoners because they should not be treated

In spite of the fact that the situation is intricate, and some conflicting discoveries have risen, for the most part the literature supports the idea that the more coercive the jail environment the more prominent the potential for savagery becomes. This is particularly so where jail administration and treatment of detainees are seen by detainees as unreasonable or illegitimate, as this reinforces detainee solidarity contrary to the authorities. A jail approach that keenly consolidates situational and social counteractive action techniques upheld by fitting administration strategies and exploration based staff enlistment and preparing practices, is likely the most encouraging model for lessening interpersonal savagery in correctional facilities.

Prisoners will either starve to death, consume contaminated water, deal with the lack of