Constitutional Rights and Administrative Goals

Tracy Guaderrama

April 4, 2022

Issues And Constitutional Rights in Corrections

1. Introduction

a) Introduction Statement

· The case of Plata v. Brown involves inmates who are experiencing severe medical conditions. The Government also appealed the three-judge court's decision directing the Administration to reduce mass incarceration. After years of negotiations, it became clear that a solution for the statutory infractions would be ineffective unless the jail systems size was reduced. The growth in numbers has resulted in an increase in desire for care, and existing programming capacity and personnel levels were insufficient to keep up. Prisons had hired more health workers, but the "expansion of the resource had not kept pace with the increase in demand."

b) Thesis Statement

· Overcrowding is the main cause of a federal right violation, namely the harsh and illegal maltreatment of inmates via extremely insufficient medical and mental health care.

1. Main body

i. First supporting idea

· Topic sentence- Overcrowding has outstripped prison staff's limited resources, placed demands well beyond the capacity of medical and mental health institutions, and produced unclean and hazardous circumstances that make progress in providing treatment difficult or impossible

· Supporting Sentence- Overpopulation was shown to be the primary reason for inmates receiving substandard mental health care. As a result, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) have been attempting to securely relocate prisoners and probationers in order to maintain the mandated population levels (Etchichury, 2020).

ii. Second supporting idea

· Topic Sentence: The ability to authorize the confinement and safe care of convicts are administrative tasks in corrections.

· Supporting Sentence- Perpetrators are reformed and rehabilitated via counseling, therapy, instructional, and vocational initiatives and they generate criminals for the courts to help in the administration of justice. Essentially, discrimination, domination, and intimidation by prominent and dominating prisoners are examples of diversity concerns in correctional institutions in the United States and across the world (Day, 2021). Being culturally sensitive means assuming that some crimes are solely committed by the black population.

2. Conclusion

When it comes to the correctional facility it is up to the court officials to find other punishment for the criminals in order to avoid the overpopulation in the facilities. It is also the administration job to make sure that the convicts are protected while in the jails. The officials should apply equality to all individuals to avoid the cultural and diversity concerns that have grown in the detention institutions.

References

Day, A., Tamatea, A., & Geia, L. (2021). Cross-cultural practice frameworks in correctional settings. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 101674.

Etchichury, H. J. (2020). Beyond Blue. Restrictive Interpretations on Social Rights: Police Officers' and Corrections Officers' Unions before the Supreme Court. Derechos en Accion, 17, 341.