Ethical Issues In Prisons
The mark of a despicable institution is when a dollar sign is put over a person’s head. In 1641, the colony of Massachusetts became the first place in America to legalize the slavery of Africans. From then on the slave market boomed across America, and over 12 million Africans were shipped through the middle passage to become American slaves. They worked hard on the southern plantations with no pay and barely enough food or shelter to get by. Disrespect their owner, and they could be tortured or killed. This horrible process continued until 1865, when the thirteenth amendment was ratified. Since then, the American government has never allowed a wealthy person to keep humans in horrible conditions and suffering just so they could make more
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Among them are reports of prisoners not receiving adequate food or medical attention, untrained and unprofessional staff, inadequate security inside and around these prisons, constant fights and violence within the prisons, and rampant drug trafficking and abuse inside the prisons themselves. According to the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee’s 2013 report of the Lake Erie Correctional: “Assaults, fights, disturbances, and uses of force have all increased in comparison to prior years. There is a high presence of gang activity and illegal substance use. Inmates reported frequent extortion and theft.4” According to Paul Reynolds, a former corrections officer at the Lake Erie Correctional, once the CCA took over the prison guards were not allowed to physically break up a fight. CCA said that they could only use pepper spray to break up a fight, but they did not provide it for any of the guards. This led to the prisoners realizing that they could fight all they wanted and the guards could not stop them, and the conditions inside descended into anarchy5. Additionally, there was a huge amount of drug abuse inside the prison. There were reports of duffel bags, presumably filled with drugs, being thrown over the fence into the prison. CCA had very little border security, so there was a constant inflow of drugs and other contraband. These horrible conditions not only threaten the safety of prisoners and staff inside the prison, but also the community as a whole. This graph represents the increase in violent incidents inside the Lake Erie Correctional after CCA gained control, according to the 2013
Among them are reports of prisoners not receiving adequate food or medical attention, untrained and unprofessional staff, inadequate security inside and around these prisons, constant fights and violence within the prisons, and rampant drug trafficking and abuse inside the prisons themselves. According to the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee’s 2013 report of the Lake Erie Correctional: “Assaults, fights, disturbances, and uses of force have all increased in comparison to prior years. There is a high presence of gang activity and illegal substance use. Inmates reported frequent extortion and theft.4” According to Paul Reynolds, a former corrections officer at the Lake Erie Correctional, once the CCA took over the prison guards were not allowed to physically break up a fight. CCA said that they could only use pepper spray to break up a fight, but they did not provide it for any of the guards. This led to the prisoners realizing that they could fight all they wanted and the guards could not stop them, and the conditions inside descended into anarchy5. Additionally, there was a huge amount of drug abuse inside the prison. There were reports of duffel bags, presumably filled with drugs, being thrown over the fence into the prison. CCA had very little border security, so there was a constant inflow of drugs and other contraband. These horrible conditions not only threaten the safety of prisoners and staff inside the prison, but also the community as a whole. This graph represents the increase in violent incidents inside the Lake Erie Correctional after CCA gained control, according to the 2013