Constitutional Rights Of Incarcerated Prisoners Essay

For many years the state and federal courts have spent large amount of time and effort in cases involving constitutional rights of incarcerated prisoners. The courts have made many rulings over the conflicts of prisoner’s rights when it comes to use of force, mail, religious rights, legal procedures, and parole. In addition, the courts faced the issue of the prisoner’s constitutional rights to receive medical aid and proper medical treatment. Many prisoners claim that they are not receiving proper medical attention that they require, or that the prison medical staffs are being neglectful of the inmates medical needs. The courts have ruled in favor to better improve the medical staff and medical treatment for prisoners but there are limitations. Moreover, inmates must understand that
Also prisoners that have serious and incurable medical illness like H.I.V require a great deal of medication that is extremely costly to suppress the virus. The H.I.V. virus is very common in prison facilities and are easily spreads through the facility due to many inmates being raped, sharing needles, or possibility an accidental exposure of blood due to a violent physical situation. I feel that many inmates and prison officials face great risk being exposed to the H.I.V virus or other diseases. For example, Prison officials can become exposed to the virus if an infected violate inmate assaulted a prison official, and due to the confrontation the infected inmates blood made contact to the officer causing possible infection. Another possibility of exposure is when a barber gives an inmate a haircut or shave with a razor, and accidentally cuts the inmate in which the barber is exposed to the contaminated blood. Plus, as I mention before many prisoners are becoming infected to diseases because of the many sexual assaults that happens in the