The Department of corrections want to ensure the safety of the inmates, the staff who is working in the prions and public safety. It’s important to understand there is a major risk because allowing an inmate to perform religious practices it might comprise prison security.…
No, because in some prisons, prisoners are being dehumanized and stripped away from their constitutional rights. Some prisons do not allow prisoners any to have the personal property they are guaranteed such as: watches, tobacco products, snacks, or toiletries, because they believe it will start up theft or gambling, but it’s a part of their constitutional rights to be able to have access to those things. Another constitutional right that prisoners are not granted is the right to free speech, which is the 1st amendment in the Bill of Rights. Prisoners are degraded and disciplined by employees for openly speaking on mistreatment within the system. Is this ethically right? No, because as the 1st amendment grants us this right. Since a person refuses to live by society’s rules, they do not receive the full benefits of the rest of the society when they become a felon. That’s understandable, but why grants constitutional rights that are said “can’t be taken away”, yet they still are. So to take away prisoners’ constitutional rights I think is unethical. Equality under the law should be highly enforced within every individual of the society. As long as they’re living, no one person should be treated better or badly because of the crime they committed. If we were to commit an offense would we want our rights taken away? We have to look at it from other prospective before we make a final decision and that’s what I…
Should prisoners serving life sentences for first degree murder be eligible for a parole hearing after 15 years? They shouldn’t. Criminals who hold life sentences for murder, rape, and kidnapping should stay in a jail cell. Without even the slightest chance of getting out. To many factors fall into play and the subject can only run deeper and deeper. These convicts were brutal in the outside world, and after taking their first step in a penitentiary it only gets worse. Their mental state crumbles, eventually leaving them hard wired to live in a dangerous environment. Being prosecuted for such terrible crimes, doesn’t happen just once for these people, and American citizens do not want these fist degree murderers set free in their communities.…
I do think that inmates should be afforded the same due process as the general public. Due process is protected under the Fourth and Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment stated, “No person shall be…deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law (Cripes, pg. 201)”. It does not excluded races, nationality, social status, gender or location of the person (i.e. inmates) as part of the writing. Therefore, inmates are allowed due process however since they are in prison the extent of liberty and property are limited. Often inmates’ reference due process concerning the disciplinary action taken by official which infringe on their liberty and property. For example, in Sandin v Conner, the reduction of the inmate liberty was found…
Yes. Although physically restricted behind penal bars, Native Americans, as well as inmates of diverse devotions, may express their religious liberties without obstruction. I believe that all prisoners have the right to observe their traditional religious practices while incarcerated, including the right to perform ceremonies that are common amid unconventional ideologies, such as the ritual performed by Yellow Thunder. “Because prayer can be considered the most sacred right a religious person possesses, the government absolutely cannot, and should not interfere with that right, which is granted by the first amendment (Mosser, K. 2013).”…
Prison is a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial. Today, persons look at prison in different way, the Time Magazine article, “Criminals Should Be Cured Not Caged”, claims in 1968. However, people and management are still experiencing disturbing tactics, which used in the most American public. In the U.S., there were more people recorded reports of police misconduct and fatalities linked to misconduct, according to the article statistics and reporting. Although the occurrence of police brutality is acknowledged by establishments as persistent problem, intentions for it are the best qualified as theories. A prisoner has the right to sue prison guards. Inmates in jail have the right to many resources, including medical care. Prisoners have to get…
In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs in America. In 2016, the amount of annual drug arrests in America outnumbered all violent crime arrests combined- most of these arrests being African American men.…
I am attorney Brandon Ray and I represent the inmates of the local prison. I would like to start out by reading to you the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America that says the government will not make any laws restricting any establishment of religion, or Prohibiting the free exercise of any religion; or the exercising of the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government about any grievances.…
In recent discussions of over populated jails, a controversial issue has been it would make the world safer. On the one hand, some argue that it could be dangerous. On the other hand, however, others argue that it could help in the long run. In sum, then, the issue is who we should be sending to the slammer.…
Since incarceration forcibly removes convicts from society for a certain period of time, its effects are widespread. For instance, the workforce loses a significant portion of its employees and the families of incarcerated individuals are forced to adjust to life without them. Certain groups of people—such as African American men—are disproportionately targeted for imprisonment, causing them to experience the effects of incarceration to a greater degree (Wakefield, 2013, p. 360). Incarceration causes stratification, which is the arranging of people into social groups, by perpetuating the cycle of poverty; this is especially evident in the effects of imprisonment on the workforce and family life.…
However, due to the continued growth of the prison industry the social cost, children without parents, the decrease in educational opportunities, employment and home ownership has effected the poor but more specifically African-American males and their families. What is even more astounding is that other lucrative countries such as Canada and Italy are also experiencing a decline in crime rates without increasing their rates of incarceration. In California, 2011 that state started to reform their judicial system these reforms resulted in a decreased use of prisons for parole violations and more of the use of local sanctions. The result of this reformations was a decline of nearly 13% of the prison population in one year. The conclusion of this…
The prison system in the united states has some very serious problems, some of these being the sheer number of people that we incarcerate in this country the highest percentage in the world. The incarceration rate impacts racial minorities much more that the percent of the population that these minorities make up in the population. Also the sheer cost of the mass incarceration costs taxpayers in the United states is huge. But looking at these problems for a sociological perspective can help you understand them better.…
The major question that comes to my mind regarding crime statistics is "Why is it that the number of people that are in the U.S. is rising at an unprecedented rate?" Analyst say that the crime rate has remained relatively flat over the last 15 years, but today we are seeing the most rapid growth in our nation's prison population since the first prisons were established in the 19th century.…
Jails are always overlooked, but they play a very important role in our justice system. The jails is the oldest of all of the correctional components, and have several missions and roles to play in our justice system. Jails have been around since 1166. the first jail was established in England, and was used to detained filthy, poor, and individuals with medical attention. John Howard drafted the penitentiary act of 1779 with the assistance of English house if commons. This act added four requirements for the English jails and prisons: it allowed sanitary and secure structure to be built, allowed for systematic inspections to be made on the detainees, allowed for the abolition of fees charged to the inmates and created a reformatory regime, and it also detailed that inmates were to be fed proper diet.…
One of the great dilemma’s currently affecting the prison systems is overpopulation, and the factors influencing it. America currently has one of the highest prison populations in the world, which causes immense overpopulation in both federal and state prisons, which in turn create high risk situations within the prisons. As a result, many programs and incentives have been created to reduce the recidivism rate for soon to be released inmates, many of the programs related to either gaining a higher education, and job/skill training. But, with many monetary funds going to these programs, the concern is if education and job training programs actually have a significant impact on the recidivism rates. While there is a general conclusion that implementing…