Murderer Rights For Inmates

There are also issues with the policies of prisons and medical confidentiality. Inmates are forced to be examined

Is it right to grant prisoners the availability to health care when they have taken the rights away from others that put them in jail in the first place? Should health care be made a privilege to those who haven’t committed crimes? There is an ideology that prisoners should not have the right to healthcare because they went against the rights of the constitution and in turn should not receive healthcare, making it more of a privileged. However, the opposition of that argument is that it goes against the eighth amendment right if health care is not provided to prisoners because it is deemed as cruel and unusual punishment. This debate subsequently leads to many good points regarding the pros and cons to making health care a privileged or right

Many advocates are fighting for improved medical care. It is improving slowly but surely. For example, many prisons started new counseling and education programs for HIV/ AIDS. Lawsuits and grievances are filed against prisons that are careless. The best strategy for change to occur is by having the media involved. “Lawsuits and Media go hand and hand,” Law stated. For example in Wisconsin, anonymous female prisoners called a Milwaukee newspaper to report medical negligence that led to an inmate’s death (Law, 2009). This phone call gave attention to this problem. Laws were passes to train medical personnel and for improved medical records.

Imagine a cancer patient on a short rode to death. The pain this patient is experiencing is unreal and unimaginable to most. The pain medicine that can be used does little to take the agony away. The doctors can put the patient in an induced coma, but what kind of living is that? It is not living. The patient does not want to go on. Is it so wrong to ask for a way out? With less than six months to live, the patient’s hope is gone. Many argue that euthanasia is not ethical, but is it really ethical to let someone live in constant, horrifying pain and agony? While in some cases having the right to die might result in patients giving up on life, physician-assisted suicide should be legalized in all fifty states for terminally ill patients with worsening or unbearable pain.

My essay topic is whether or not physician assisted suicide is morally permissible. I intend to argue that it is permissible because a competent patient ultimately has the right to choose for themselves the course of their life, including how it will end. To lie in a hospital bed in a vegetative state, unable to see, think, speak, eat, being totally unaware of your surroundings or those of your loved ones nearby speaks loudly of the pain and suffering at all levels for a terminally ill patient. Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is ethically justifiable in certain cases, most often those cases involving unrelenting suffering. While PAS is not

Linder and Frederick J. Meyers. This article starts with a story about an inmate who found out he had cancer while incarcerated. Then, it goes on to incorporate his story throughout the article in interview form to provide inside information on the treatment of prisoners. Most inmates come in with addictions and substance abuse, no access to health care, homelessness, and untreated mental illnesses (Linder and Meyers 895). They blame this on the lack of medical health that’s available to the general population. According to Linder and Meyers, “Inmates and the free-living populations share 6 of the 10 leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory disease, influenza/pneumonia, and septicemia”. With the remaining four for inmates being liver disease, AIDS, self-harm and digestion

While much discussion has been had in respect to the legislation of the Affordable Care Act and how it would impact the citizens of the United States, not a lot of thought is given to the medical state of the inmates incarcerated in North America. According to the eighth amendment, cruel and unusual punishment should not be inflicted upon inmates (U.S. Const. amend.VIII). Not issuing the proper medication to a pain stricken cancer patient or prenatal vitamins to an expectant mother can be looked at as cruel and unusual punishment. This paper aims to determine if healthcare in the United States is unconstitutional in its delivery. Healthcare at both federal and state prisons along with detention centers will be examined for this study. I am

All inmates become psychologically institutionalized or dehumanized, and over time lack socioeconomically sound. The cost of tax costs that are unjustified, by raising accodational price along with unethical policies for future generations. With the death penalty there were breached issues such as the death penalty, wrongful execution and botched executions, which makes up 3% (Science Daily, 2012) . The meaning behind botched execution was biased on face value, which became unfair and eliminated in certain states, and states its " an evitable part of our criminal justice system" (McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987). Medical health care for all just recently became available through ObamaCare and correctional facilities seem to correlate, the basis of needs to these participants. The breach of ethical behavior is these inmates are surrounded by health hazards of others bodily fluids in such tight quarters. The injuries are inflicted from inmate brawls or inflicted by correctional officers, that can lead to trips to the infirmary. From a utilitarian's perspective it seems to cause more financial issues that good for society. The inmates that are serving time

“When it comes to healthcare, ‘bad people’ are as equal as the rest of us” (646). When someone is sentenced to execution it is decided by the criminal justice system, not the medical community. The justice system views these peoples’ social worth as so low that they deserve to die for the crimes they have committed. “The

Prisoners should be granted privileges depending on the type of crime they committed. There’s different types of felonies that determine how long a prisoner is going to stay in prison. Violent crimes such as rape, armed robbery, and murder are most likely to get life sentences . Most prisoners have about the same amount of rights. There’s those prisoners who committed non-violent felonies/crimes but are serving life sentences. Prisoners who committed non-violent felonies; does not involve high levels of damage or serious injury, should have more rights than someone who killed people, betrayed the nation or raped people.

This essay is an argument about Physician Assisted Suicide. Before learning about PAS I virtually know little to nothing about the topic. I had a general understanding that PAS was when a licensed physician prescribed lethal medication to patients that were suffering from a disease. After digging deeper into the subject I became aware of the rule and regulations for request ion PAS, such as you need to meet with two doctors whom both give you six months or less to live and you need to be mentally sound. In addition, I learned about various stories about families who have gone through the struggle of requesting PAS, such as Brittany Maynard, Kevin Drum’s father-in-law and Anita Freeman’s sister. After gaining further knowledge about PAS usage I take a firm stand that PAS should be legalized in the United States. One main reason I believe PAS should be legalized is because having a terminal illness can lessen the quality of ones life. PAS will ultimately help them to live to the fullest and die when they are ready to rather then living in agony. In supporting my claim I used a story form “My Right to Die” by Kevin Drum. In the story Drum talks about his father-in-law Harry. Drum explains how without PAS Harry had to take his own life in a unmovable way. On page three paragraph two, I write “In "My Right to Die" Kevin Drum explains how his Father-in-Laws,

Equalizing the constitutional rights of prisoners and the functions of the jail or prison can create great strain on not only the correctional facilities’ staff but on the inmates as well. The treatment of prisoners is typically left completely to the prudence of prison administrators and other correctional officials. With that being said, this paper will discuss the differences between harmonizing those constitutional rights of prisoners and the functions of the facility. It will also explain the rights that prisoners are required to have, and how these rights are balanced within other aspects of the correctional institution.

While lawful incarceration deprives prisoners of most of Americas Constitutional rights, they do maintain a few constitutional rights. Federal courts, while hesitant to impede with the internal administration of prisons, will interfere to rectify violations of the constitutional rights that prisoners are still entitled to. A prison guideline that oversteps on a prisoner’s constitutional rights is lawful only if it is reasonably related to the safety of the inmates or the rehabilitation of that prisoner.

While, the issue of the incarcerated population having the privilege of this scarce medical resources is extensively and generally approved or compelling recognition within the correctional health profession and there is a case-law supporting the matter of concern, that the statues of a person as an inmate must not preclude such person as a patient from receiving adequate care in respect to serious health needs, regardless of the cost of such treatment. They also have all the social and moral values since the law does not exempt them from citizenship (Puisis, 2006, p.23).

Should all prisoners be given the right to vote or should it be limited only to some or to none at all? Provide a reasoned argument for your decision.