The prison system is a topic that is widely debated. Many are either for or against how they are ran. Though I am only an observer; I have no ties to the prison system. I do agree with many points that Wilbert Rideau made in his original article.…
However, there are instances where the governmental interests that might outweigh the incarcerated individual’s right to refuse medical treatment: preservation of life;…
Critical health issues might include the right to see a doctor and to be treated irrespective of gender, finance or religious views as by law. A patient is entitled to receiving treatment even while they cannot afford it just to keep them alive and healthy, though it is also a challenge to private health sectors because they have to follow some due processes before they could be reimbursed.…
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…
As previously mentioned, if the punishment is not harsh enough the result is repeated offense. If a criminal relishes in committing a crime and the court system does not properly punish them for it, then they actually have no reason not to repeat the crime over again. The National Institute of Justice, part of the U.S department of Justice, studied how likely criminals are to relapse after being released, claiming that “Within five years of release, about three-quarters (76.6 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested” (Durose, Cooper, and Howard). This statistic proves that there is a significant chance that a criminal will indeed carry out the same action as before. The most significant way that an offender is punished is through what…
Do you agree that health care is a constitutional right for prisoners? Yes, you can’t just completely let them die in prison without attempting to help them.…
Today in our country our justice system runs by two models in order to keep peace and order to the public the first model is the determinate sentencing model what the Determinate model is when the judge is about to pass a sentence on to defendant and to address the problem with crimes that has been going around since the 1980s for example the government of some states in our country passed the three strike laws where when someone commits a crime that is considered serious then they get harsher sentences and to tell people who are more likely to commit the crime to don’t do it and it is not worth it . One of the pros for the determinate sentencing model is that the defendant could be eligible for probation, parole and alternative programs…
The United States has the largest prison population of any western developed country. The United States has almost 700 people per 100,000 in prison. As a result of this large prison population 600,000 people are released from prison every year. Currently more than fifty percent of parolee’s become incarcerated again. As a nation we must provide the services to help them return to society in a successful way (White House Fact Sheet). Services need to be offered while in prison and after their release from prison. Offering counseling and rehabilitation while in prison and continuing to assist them once they are no longer incarcerated. If these services were well funded and given to all prisoners the nation would see an immediate decrease…
Not only does bringing an inmate to a hospital pose safety concerns, it also suggests ethical concerns. Risking the lives of other people just to save one life is a hard concept for people to grasp and accept. Only if the inmate is in dire need should he or she be provided with inpatient care.…
Although female inmates’ time spent behind bars is intended to serve as their punishment, having their health neglected often serves as a further punishment, a punishment that is inhumane. “The blood-sugar levels of diabetics aren’t routinely tested, resulting in life-threatening seizures; inmates with newly detected cancers are ignored until they’re deathly ill with stage four metastasized malignancies” (Berg 144,145). It seems as though the prison system justifies the inhumane treatment of criminals, and female criminals in particular, merely because of the crimes they have committed. While some may argue that mistreatment of those who have committed violent crimes is fair, “the majority of imprisoned women are there for nonviolent crimes: drugs, prostitution, check forgery” (Berg 144). These women are serving time for their wrongdoings, and neglecting them proper healthcare is a violation of their ethical…
The prison system has to realize that even though prisoners have broken the law they do not deserve to be locked in a room against their own will. Prisoners should not lose the same human born rights every citizen has. Locking them in a room is not a positive way of punishment, it’s rather cruel and does more harm than good. The slow speed the state of New York is improving its solitary confinement is defective. The severely ill inmates who need specific attention should not be a part of the general jail population, instead those inmates need to learn how to behave in the outside world by not being surrounded by the polluted minds of a general jail…
It can be agreed, prisons could benefit from proper rehabilitation for inmates, so they can transition into society, without becoming a reoccurring offender. There are different measures that could be taken. If the United States would adopt more of the policies overpopulation and reoccurring offenders could be an issue in the past. If more prisons in the United States could adopt the policies, prisoners would not carry such a burden of a stigma, and begin to be treated as actual members of the…
It is sad that these inmates have to resort to hurting themselves to get attention, this is where I do not agree with this. On the other hand, though prisons do need a way to punish inmates further for acting out. This is where people get stuck on what to do. Some people say that taking away the little things is the way to go. By taking away everything and…
Currently prisoners are the only group who are specifically granted the right to health care. Health care is a privilege attainable by the wealthy, a benefit provided solely at the discretion of an employer, a government subsidized insurance plan for the elderly or a charitable gift provided based on the goodwill of others. Haft, H (Jan – Feb, 2003 p.1). I feel that this treatment should be extended to every citizen.…
In the essay, Punishment, Communication and Community R.A. Duff seeks to find a way to reconcile criminal punishment in a liberal community. Duff argues the way to go about it is to make sure that punishment is inclusionary instead of exclusionary. Criminals should be treated as equal members of our political community and not as pariahs who need to be separated from the masses. Punishments that are currently in place are exclusionary. In the United States and the United Kingdom some localities take the right to vote away from those convicted of crimes and it is hard for many ex-convicts to be gainfully employed.…