Reflection On The Treatment Of Prisoners

That’s the more controversial topic, not the horrendous penitentiary conditions. It is a culture in place, where it seems like the norm, but it if far from normal. Everyone should receive a great education, and the same opportunities as others. No one should be above the law, and everyone should receive the same punishment for the same crimes. In the United States, taxpayers spend about 13,000 dollars a year to provide for an inmate. Lander university tuition is about 10,000 dollars a year. It cost more to send a person to jail than college, but most likely that is not going to

In today 's prison system of the United States, over 75% of the prisoners have the right to many luxuries while incarcerated instead of getting punished for the crimes committed. In fact, many inmates receive better health care than most people in the United States. Certainly, inmates have more luxuries than the citizens who work hard for them. With that in mind, inmates may consider jail better than the real world. No doubt inmates deserve treatment of an adult for the crimes they have committed. But also should get the punishment they deserve. In today 's world, inmates are not fully punished for the crimes committed.

There are a number of constitutional amendment(s) that are typically the focus of a number of issues with corrections and correctional policies and practices. One of the amendment(s) that is the focus of this is the Eighth Amendment which means that no one can be the subject of cruel and unusual punishment. This means that everyone should be treated equally and should not be beaten or tortured by the guards, must always be given food and water, and treated humane at all times which means that no matter what their crime was they are still allowed some form of protections by the guards to include being sexual harassed or sexual assaulted. They also retain their First Amendment right because they still have their freedom of speech and religion. Therefore, they must be allowed to practice whatever religion they believe in no matter how someone else may feel about it and they must have some time in order to practice this religion. However, there may be a number of other issues that may be raised but I feel the most important ones would be the Eighth and First Amendment because they are the biggest two that a lot of prisoners deal with in prison.

What the rest of the population fails to realize is that they are in fact human beings. Criminals bleed, crave affection, and want understanding just like the rest of us. They just made a bigger mistake than most of us have, or they made the same mistake and just got caught. Prisoners should be awarded their rights while in prison because at the end of the day, they are still human.

The United States prison system struggles eminently with keeping offenders out of prison after being released. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than third of all prisoners who were arrested within five years of released were arrested within six months after release, with more than half arrested by the end of the year (Hughes, Wilson, & Beck, 2001). Among prisoners released in 2005 in 23 states with available data on inmates returned to prison, about half (55 percent) had either a parole or probation violation or an arrest for a new offense within three years that led to imprisonment (Durose, Cooper, & Snyder, 2014). Why are there many ex-offenders going back to prison within the first five years of release? Are there not enough resources to help offenders before or/and after being released from prison.

A U.S. prisoner’s rights after conviction are unjust and unconstitutional. The way they are treated and looked upon is disgusting. As Americans, we should be better. We should treat everyone as equals, even criminals because they are humans too. Prisons have been known to date back to around 1852 (“Private Jails in the United States”). Since that time we have managed to find way to violate religious and constitutional rights in the simplest manners. The United States should not let these criminals roam free, but we also can’t stand by and watch.

Within this paper, you will find a comprehensive review of the United States prison system, and why it needs to analyzed to better support and reform the people of this country. I plan to persuade the other side (politicians and society) into seeing that the way the prison system is now, is not ethical nor economical and it must change. We have one of the world’s largest prison population, but also a very high rate of recidivism. Recidivism is when the prisoners continuously return to prison without being reformed. They return for the same things that they were doing before. So, this leads us to ask what exactly are we doing wrong? When this happens, we as a nation must continuously pay to house and feed these inmates. The purpose of a prison needs to be examined so we can decide if we really are reforming our inmates, or just continuing a vicious cycle. What is the true purpose of prison besides just holding them in a cell? There must be more we can do for these hopeless members of society.

The prisoners’ loss of some of their rights is part of their punishment for breaking the law if prisoners kept all their rights prison would not work because prison is meant to take away their freedom (Prisoner’s Rights). Prisoners have taken their rights to court multiple time only proving that the prisoners have a loose grasp of what rights they deserve and what prison really is resulting in many foolish cases which waste tax payer’s dollars (Prisoner’s Rights). For example, a prisoner in Westville Correctional facility in Indiana has filled over a hundred separate lawsuits in a time span of 8 years, including one where he sued because the prison would not provide him with pornographic magazines (Prisoner’s Rights). When committing a crime the prisoners’ lost the right to deny a search because now there is reasonable cause to search an inmate making it constitutional according to the 4th Amendment (Prisoner’s Rights). The 4th Amendment states that search and seizures are allowed when there is reasonable suspicion and being arrested falls under reasonable suspicion according to the U.S. Supreme Court (Strip

In conclusion, prisoners have more civil rights in American prisons than in many other countries, and prison conditions are much more humane in America than in many other countries. The challenge for the twenty-first century is maintaining a proper balance between the well-being of inmates and ensuring that incarceration is unpleasant enough to act as a deterrent to crime. The courts have developed a body of law that attempts to balance prisoners’ rights with the legitimate goals and concerns of

When citizens of society break federal and state laws they face a punishment known as “ jail” or “ prison”, which purpose is to not only to serve as a punishment but to also act as a program designed to help convicts enter back in to the society as a better person. As citizens of the United States we have civil rights granted to us from the U.S. Constitution that are not meant to just be taken away from us whenever the correctional system feels like it. Many people believe that once a person is put into prison that all of the prisoners’ rights are stripped form them, which is an untrue statement. Some of the basic prisoner laws state that all prisoners must be respected to and their life valued as a human being, it should be no type or

According to the article titled “Do Inmates Have Rights? If So, What Are They?”, “every inmate has the right to be free under the Eighth Amendment from inhumane treatment or anything considered “cruel and inhumane”. They should have this right because not all of them deserve to be treated poorly or be put somewhere inhumane.

The United State’s prison system was initially designed to punish and rehabilitate individuals whom were convicted of a felony or other serious offense. Inmates are sentenced for a certain amount of time, or the entirety of their life based on how serious of a crime that person has committed. The Idea of imprisoning a person as a form of punishment dates back to medieval times however, it wasn’t until right before the American Revolution humane prisons started appearing in this country. Today, prisons are more populated than they have ever been and are functioning not only as a place to reform people’s morals, but also as a highly profitable investment for the wealthy to exploit. The Prison system is so devoted to making

To begin with, we should change the way we sentence people because there are other ways to deal with criminals and how long they’re in prison. In source number 2 “Mass Incarceration is a Horrible failure” paragraph 2, states “only 3 percent of people who enrolled in treatment were re-arrested for a violent crime compared to

Having compared the plantations in the United States to the death and labor camps of the Nazi Regime historians believe slaves and prisoners were equally enslaved. Quite a few argue that the treatment of the slaves was as inhuman as the treatment of the prisoners, in the death camps. In countless ways, the historians can be proven correct. Designed to hold prisoners’ captive, the Nazi death camps were a place to send prisoners to their death because they were thought non-superior race. Though of as animals, slaveholders had no dispute with using their wealth and power to hold slaves captive. Both parties were guilty of mistreatment and unjust actions towards fellow human beings. Ironically, a hundred years’ separation and yet history

As Lawrence describes the various events leading up to the creation of al-Qaeda he mentions the group Takfir wa Hijira, where its members were viciously rounded up, jailed and many were executed (142). After their arrests many of them became further radicalized and expanded their operations to Africa and even eventually helped supply al-Jihad with weapons. Using this event, Lawrence shows the effects of the poor treatment of prisoners by police officials and how the rehabilitation methods used by the governments on them failed. As a result of their treatment, the prisoners came out of prison even more angry and resentful than they were before towards those who locked them up, perpetuating the cycle of aggression.