...Prisoner rights are important because they prevent prisons from taking advantage of people. They also help to ensure that the punishment fits the crime. Without prisoner rights, those who are responsible for ensuring that society is safe from people who cannot live by society’s rules would be free to treat prisoners whatever way they saw fit, and abuse would be commonplace. Even though prisoners lose a lot of their citizen’s rights when they are convicted, they still have certain rights that make sure that they are treated fairly. Some of those rights include freedom of speech and religion, freedom from arbitrary punishment and cruel and unusual punishment, and the right to have access to the courts through Habeas Corpus. These rights are guaranteed so that prisoners are not treated unfairly, or even in an inhumane fashion. If these rights were not guaranteed to prisoners, abuse and neglect would be rampant and violence would be worse than it is now. The prisoners’ rights movement has had its effects on the individual prisoner. They now have more access to the courts and benefit from internal procedures which help to resolve disputes within the prison. Because of the prisoners’ rights movement, individual inmates now expect better treatment than prisoners before them had received. The bad side of prisoners having more rights is that some may want more and more rights. This causes the social behavior of the inmates to be of the attitude that they deserve to be treated a certain...
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...Prisoner Rights Robert Bregante CJS230 April 17, 2011 Michael Lew Prisoner Rights A major part of the evolution within the prison system is prisoner rights. Even though citizens loose many of their rights once committing a felony, there are still rights afforded to those individuals incarcerated. Prisoner rights are important to maintaining balance within the prison system. They give the prisoners a voice, which prevents prison officials from abusing their power. Prisoner rights are necessary to maintaining a particular level of care for inmates, for it forces the correctional staff to be more hands on in their approach. This way they may also receive the treatment necessary for proper rehabilitation, as well as the tools for reintegration into society. It seems prisoner rights have played an essential role in the evolution of the prison system; it has had both positive and negative effects on inmates, and when looking at the key elements in obtaining those rights it is important to recognize the 8th amendment and section 1983 of civil rights litigation. Rights for prisoners can be a great benefit to the individual inmate should they choose to take advantage of them. While in the past, the system may have worked against inmates wanting to have their issues heard and a fair review of their case, the present era offers various courses of legal action for inmates to take. Prisoners are now able to speak out against cruel and unusual punishment. They can file lawsuits...
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...Society Tiffany Horvath SOC 305: Crime and Society Instructor: Efua Akoma October 28, 2013 If you asked 100 random people to describe a criminal, they would describe someone uneducated, in and out of the justice system, a minority or just a basic street criminal. “National surveys suggest that when Americans think about crime, they see the face of a black jobless high-school dropout from a broken home” (Society, 2013). “Federal researchers found, for example, that many prisoners are reasonably well-educated. More than six out of 10 prisoners are high school graduates, and many attended college. A majority of federal prison inmates and nearly half of all state prisoners are white or white Hispanic, not African American. More than four out of 10 prisoners were raised in two-parent families, and more than half had fulltime jobs before their arrest” (Society, 2013). Most people lose focus of the different kinds of criminals including white collar crime. “It’s important to understand that as white collar crimes evolved over the years, so too has the white collar criminal. It is this phenomenon that criminologists, sociologists, law enforcement, fraud examiners, and forensic accountants must take into consideration as they investigate white collar crimes. Credit card fraud, forgery, identity theft, internet schemes, larceny, mail fraud, and telemarketing fraud, do not require the perpetrator to be an executive within an organization. In fact, those who would...
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...The reason why someone is in a prison is because they violated the law. There have been many debates over their rights and what is believed to be humane. Others agree that if you do the crime than you should do the time and you shouldn’t have the luxuries that law abiding citizens have on the outside. If you think about it, they should be given just the essentials which are food, water and shelter. The purpose of the punishment should be based upon the crime. They have different facilities for different acts of violence. Rapists and murders should be placed in facilities different then robbers and thieves because of the nature of the crime. There seems to be so much overcrowding in the prisons that the unfair treatment seems to be justified. For prisoners that continue to repeat their history it only seems to be the right thing to do to prove a point to them. It doesn’t seem to make sense to keep giving those things such as television, libraries, visitation rights and extracurricular activities. If they are continued to be given those opportunities than they may think to themselves that it isn’t that bad in there. Again I believe that overcrowding has a lot to do with the treatment and rights of the prisoners. Punishments seem to be taking longer due to the overcrowding of the jails and backlogs of the system. Courts and legislatures have taken steps such as getting the accused persons court appearance held quicker but sometimes this isn’t feasible and they are waiting for...
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...Plato’s Truth in “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara Imagine a prisoner who was born in a cave and have never seen anything besides a wall is one day released. When he leaves the cave and approaches the light, his eyes hurt and “he is not able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.” This metaphoric example shows that when a person is placed in an uncomfortable situation, he is first in denial. He doesn’t want to accept things that he sees as reality, continuing to live according to his old false perceptions. As he looks longer at the sun he slowly starts to realize that his perceptions could be wrong. He now sees the light and a new world, which he never thought exists. Sylvia, the heroine of the short story “The Lesson” by...
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...impact the message conveyed. Plato took the liberty to separate his story into stages as the prisoner starts to come to the realization that he has been living an illusion all along. As the illusion turns into a realization, one becomes familiar with the interpretation Plato intended for one to understand the importance of education. Plato had the assertion that man was born ignorant yet had the capacity to fulfill his own personal knowledge. Socrates begins to set up a scenario where there are human beings who have been living in a cave since birth. The prisoners are “chained so that they cannot move” and only able to view a low wall that was places in front of them (Plato 66). A fire is their only source of light and with that they are able to see their shadows. In this part of the story, the prisoners are unaware that there is more to offer in the world than the fire and their shadows. They are ignorant yet unaware of this because to them it was natural to only see such few things. The cave was the only thing they were aware of and this prevented them from building personal knowledge and fully becoming enlightened. The cave symbolized a barrier that the prisoners were unable to cross. It was what they were used to and they didn’t have the knowledge to realize the right way to live vs. the wrong way. The feeling of change is something they had yet to experience. As a prisoners is released, the light causes him to “suffer sharp pains” and he begins to contemplate what he...
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...| | | | | | | | |EARLY DAYS IN CUSTODY – RECEPTION IN, FIRST NIGHT IN CUSTODY, AND INDUCTION TO CUSTODY | |This instruction applies to : |Reference : | | | | |Prisons |PSI 74/2011 | |Issue Date |Effective Date |Expiry Date | |21 December 2011 |1 January 2012 |20 December 2015 | |Issued on the authority of |NOMS Agency Board ...
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...of people have lived in a deep cave since birth, never seeing the light of day. These people are bound so that they cannot look to either side or behind them, but only straight ahead. Behind them is a fire, and behind the fire is a partial wall. On top of the wall are various statues, which are manipulated by another group of people, lying out of sight behind the partial wall. Because of the fire, the statues cast shadows across the wall that the prisoners are facing. The prisoners watch the stories that these shadows play out, and because these shadows are all they ever get to see, they believe them to be the most real things in the world. When they talk to one another about “men,” “women,” “trees,” or “horses,” they are referring to these shadows. These prisoners represent the lowest stage on the line—imagination. A prisoner is freed from his bonds, and is forced to look at the fire and at the statues themselves. After an initial period of pain and confusion because of direct exposure of his eyes to the light of the fire, the prisoner realizes that what he sees now are things more real than the shadows he has always taken to be reality. He grasps how the fire and the statues together cause the shadows, which are copies of these more real things. He accepts the statues and fire as the most real things in the world. This stage in the cave represents belief. He has made contact with real things—the statues—but he is not aware that there are things of greater reality—a...
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...for the absolute truth and the people who really do see the truth using rational thought. I really believe that the story can be explained in parts 4 parts, the cave, the shadows, the escape and return, and the game . These parts explain the story of humanities perceptions. In Platos main theory, he explains the dark cave represents people or who strongly believe that wisdom comes from what we see , feel ,and hear in the world . The cave shows that believers of this absolute knowledge are trapped in a cave of misleading wealth of information. Now these prisoners have been here since birth, and have never seen day light or the opening of the cave. The prisoners were bound to rocks, their arms and legs were tied and their head is tied still so that they would not be able to look at anything but the stonewall in front of them witch represents a pritive movie screen. This obviously to me is representing the prisoners accepting the fact that there in no other things in life to live for just because they have not scene anything but shadows on a wall. Some people in life to some point can say they live in a cave and see no way out, for example, dead end jobs. As the story progresses, Misterious people outside the cave walk along this pathway , where light from a fire ,...
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...ENG 202: Brandel Of Prisoners & Superheroes Shalin Patel Poem Title: Prisoner No. 786 Drama Title: Love is Bl(ow)ind Creative Non-Fiction Title: v/s The Biased Media of the 21st Century Fiction Title: Sub-Urban Superhero Reflection Essay Included Total Word Count: 5095 Prisoner No. 786 I, prisoner number 786, stick my head out through these iron bars. I watch as days, months and years turn into eons. The smell of the warm moist mud reminds me of all those carefree afternoons I spent on my mama’s porch watching the rain pass by. The scorching sun on my face reminds me of the sweetest iced tea my sister used to so carefully prepare. The unflinching rain at times takes me back to the fields where I would play soccer for hours at end with my cousins. The bitter cold within my bones reminds me of the steaming hot barbecue my father would make so passionately, never failing to impress. This man standing outside my cell tells me this is not my country, then why does it feel like I’m right at home? He says I’m not like him, then why do I feel like he’s like me? I, prisoner number 786, stick my head out through these iron bars. I stare towards the heavens as a white fairy descends from the village of dreams. I don’t know who she is, but she talks like she’s all mine. When I listen to her, it feels like I want to go out there and live again. When she makes all those fake promises, she makes me want to believe in myself again. I, prisoner number 786, stick my head out through these...
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...Whenever you think about a prisoner, you normally think about an orange and white striped jumpsuit, right? Well, there are some prisoners out there that have the opportunity to get out of these jumpsuits and they do, but are right back into them a few months later. You then have some inmates that take advantage of the fact that the prisons offer rehabilitation for it’s prisoners that decide to take advantage of it because they want to turn their lives around and want to actually be able to have something once they do finally get out of prison. Prisoner rehabilitation is when the prisons do something and use resources in order to “make the prisoner a better person (Foster, Chapter 13, 2006)”. While a violent rapist can possibly be rehabilitated and turn from the raping lifestyle, they can still just graduate to a lesser crime. Either way, they have still been rehabilitated, but they are still a criminal. This just shows that it is possible for a person to change, but still also be set in their old ways. When most people think about prisoner rehabilitation, they think about the different programs that are offered in an effort to try to get the prisoners to turn their lives around and “turn over a new leaf” and also end their lives of crime and live a normal, crime free life (Foster, Chapter 13, 2006). Whenever the law enforcement officers and government officials are trying to determine whether or not to try to rehabilitate someone, they try to figure out what that particular prisoner’s...
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...PRISON MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Synopsis: PRISON MANAGEMENT SYSTEM is an efficient application for maintaining Prisoners information. More than a data storage program, it helps you manage the prisoners. It offers a wide variety of Reports that give you exactly the information you need. Add new prisoner details and about new cases. It enables to track every prisoner and their activities. There are three kinds of users Data administrator, Police officials and Administrator. Administrator is considered as Super user and he has full access and rights over the system than anybody else. Administrator can view the details of prisoners, cases, release diary, parole register and interview requests as well as in-out register. Next Police officials have rights to view the nominal rolls, case, parole, interview requests and his functionality is to check the nominal roll which comprises of whole details of prisoners and to fix date for court hearing as per court’s advice. Finally, Data administrator prepares reports and enters data on behalf of the administrator with appropriate data. They have privilege to add and update the data as per administrator’s concern. The interview requests of relatives are made through data admin to administrator and the status of reports can reflect appropriately. Existing system: The prison system uses the documentation form storage which is a single user system to find the wanted information. The important and the most significant...
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...Allegory of the Cave Kimberly McClure PHI 103 Prof. Victor Reppert February 28, 2014 The stages of the prisoner in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave are as follows: There are three prisoners who are tied to some rocks in a cave. They have been imprisoned in the cave since birth and can see nothing in front of them but a stone wall. When people would walk on the walkway the fire would cast shadows of the objects they were carrying on their heads onto the wall in front of the prisoners. The prisoners thought these shadows were real objects. Then one of the prisoners manages to escape the cave. He was accustomed to the dim light of the cave so when he first surfaced out of the cave he was blinded by the light of the real world. After his eyes adjusted he was able to appreciate the variety of the real world. The escapee then returns to the cave and tries to tell the other prisoners that there is a better world out there. More real than the one they are in. they do not believe him and threaten to kill him if he tries to set them free. As a child I always believed what adults told me. I was very naïve and wanted to believe the best about people. I was limited in where I could go and what I could do because I was just a child. As I grew older and was able to find out things for myself I felt that I had more freedom. I began to think more for myself and was able to find out if things I had been told were true or not. I also went to a private school and after graduation I could...
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...guards and prisoners in a mock prison. The study found that when you put people into a new environment they can quickly internalize new roles and forget their old roles. “Although people experience a great deal of socialization in role playing and role taking during childhood, this social guidance continues also in later life. Individuals learn new roles and abandon old ones as they pass through their life cycles and encounter new situations (Clinard and Meier, 2011). 24 male students were selected to participate and were randomly assigned roles of prison guards and prisoners. None of the participants had prior experience in their new role. Guards were required to wear uniforms and one way shades to hide emotion. Prisoners fad to wear dresses, stocking caps, and chains on their right foot. Only a day went by before the guards and the prisoners fell into authoritarian and submissive roles, respectively after a prisoner rebellion took place. “Social behavior develops not only through responses to the expectations of others, which force one to confront their norms, but also through social interactions, which lead one to anticipate others’ responses and incorporate them into one’s own conduct (Clinard and Meier, 2011). After the prisoner rebellion was quelled by force with fire extinguishers and prisoner separation, the guards decided they would use psychological control to keep the prisoners in line as opposed to physical control. The guards began by rewarding prisoners who did not...
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...Victor, about his grandmother’s death, and we get an insight into what freedom means to a human being. Evie is the catholic chaplain, who works for the prison. It is her job to deliver good or bad news to the prisoners. She also helps with the Enhanced Thinking Skills. Evie has worked there for a while. About a year. She knows the building and some of the staff. Even though she has been there for a while, it doesn’t mean that she likes it. The prisoners scare her; “is he going to be all right?” Evie ask tentatively. The officer looks round with a perplexed… but realizes how nervous she is and that her question is really about whether Victor is the dangerous, unpredictable type who might want to throw a punch at news of his loss” (page 3 lines 63-65). Her intentions to help are good, but it is difficult for her to get a real break through to the prisoner’s minds, because she is afraid of them. Evie has a ritual before delivering the bad news. On a spot at five floor across the window. She stands at a certain spot across the window on the fifth floor and prays to the lord because she is afraid of the reaction from Victor. She is a good and a religious person because she wants to help others to get rid of the pain. But what if there is no pain and no emotions from the prisoner like Victor? Victor Zamora is a young boy, who seems way too clever and pretty to be in prison. He was not...
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