Are we or are we not the prisoner or our own conceptions? In the cave allegory‚ Plato describes the human condition as a type of blissful ignorance. I agree with Plato that we are prisoners of our own belief. In this essay‚ I describe my own opinions and issues to answer some of the questions. The first question that I would like to discuss is‚ Are we prisoners to our own beliefs and notions of truth? I believe that we are prisoners to our own beliefs because since childhood different beliefs
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The Price of Life By Kierstin Palcek Logline: Can the will to live outweigh the price it takes? This question plagues Mason Tucker as he wanders the in-between desperately looking for a way out. Make a deal with the devil‚ or move on? Endlessly wandering this desolate forest‚ Mason Tucker makes a devastating realization. He is dead. Surrounding him are dozens of people‚ each with plain sunken in faces‚ wandering endlessly as well. He attempts to speak to them; however‚ they ignore his existence
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The Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat is a story of young girl who was born in 1965 in Tehran‚ Iran. Her father was a dancer while her mother was a hairdresser. Marina in her young days liked to dance‚ have fun at the beach and liked to spend time with her friends and crush Andre who she met in the church. She was brought up in an orthodox Christian family and went to a school with majority of Muslims in it. Religion was never a matter of concern back in the early days when Nemat went to school
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Running Head: UNFAIR TREATMENT Is There Unfair Treatment for Women in Prison? LaSonja Johnson Kaplan University CM223: Effective Writing II for Criminal Justice Majors Professor Vineski September 1‚ 2009 Women are thought to be gentler sex and the softer side of our humanity. But some women do commit crimes‚ and when they do‚ we want to know why. What drove them to commit those crimes? Was it an abusive husband? Was it drugs? Was it envy… fear… lust? With all questions still
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Legal issues inherent in treatment of sex offenders with the right to refuse mental health treatment is the Fifth Amendment (Adams‚ 1997). The Fifth Amendment give right against self-incrimination and the Fourteen Amendment is regarding the preservation of family integrity (Adams‚ 1997). Some believe mandatory participating is punishment in disguise (Adams‚ 1997). Some mental health treatments can include psychotopic drugs‚ psychosurgery and aversive therapy that could potentially cause irreversible
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4. RIGHTS OF PRISONERS A convict lodged in a prison is not denuded of all fundamental rights though it is true that he does not enjoy all the fundamental rights like other persons because of the fetters imposed on him in accordance with the law. In an American case on prisoner’s right‚ i.e. Procunier v. Martineg the court emphasized that since the liberty of a prisoner is constitutionally curtailed due to his confinement‚ his interest in the limited liberty left to him becomes all the more substantial
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Prisoner experimentation is an issue that has affected prisoners all across the world. When participants are being experimented on‚ most of the time‚ there was no consent given to the experimenter. In these cases‚ the experiment should not be performed. In most cases the subjects‚ have little understanding of the experiment and should be able to stop being tested on if they please. Although using prisoners for experiments‚ is not a terrible thing to do‚ because most of the prisoners being tested
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Prisoner Testing The years 1965 & 1966‚ Dr. Albert Kligman gave 75 prisoners a dosage of dioxin‚ a chemical used in Agent Orange‚ 468 times greater than protocol. Agent orange was an herbicide used by the US during the Vietnam War to clear its dense vegetation. Those who came in contact with this herbicide had horrible side effects such as birth defects‚ cysts‚ swollen body parts & etc. According to Keramet Reiter‚ a UC Irvine graduate in the department of criminology‚ the prisoners faced such
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of the European Prison Rules Deprivation of liberty does not mean a loss of contact with the outside world.1 Communication of prisoners with the outside world is essential as it serves the important purpose of preventing the prisoners from being isolated‚ decreases the likelihood of staff abuse and promotes reintegration into society.2 Maintaining links between prisoners and the outside world‚ especially with their families‚ is seen as a vital aspect of their preparation for release and regular contact
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Prisoners with Special Needs In today’s society‚ jails are starting to incarcerate more and more special needs prisoners. For example‚ the mentally ill‚ and substance abusing prisoners. This number is growing faster and faster and will leave behind the prison system if something is not done to make sure that these prisoners are treated the right way. Several people argue the fact that they are there because they committed a crime. They also argue the point of why should they
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