DB #6

After reviewing the module resources, consider the following question: Do prisoners have too many or too few rights? Explain As you explain your answer, consider the challenges the correctional system faces and/or the challenges faced in prison life.

When responding to your peers, state whether you agree or disagree and why.

Response #1

Latevia Sears posted Feb 13, 2019 2:30 PM

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 After reviewing the module resources, I believe that some prisons have too few rights, while other prisons have too many rights. I believe that some prisons are funded well, and staffed adequately, which can then provide a safe, and healthy rehabilitation that prisoners need.  Also, when the prison is staffed adequately, inmate placement can be assessed more clearly, which is a deciding factor in the inmates’ incarceration.

The answer depends on the prison we are refferring to when we ask do inmates have to many or to few of rights. The  Administrative Law says to protect prisons right and act on placing limits. The prison I want to speak on today is dade CI  it is a state medium facility that resembles a high-security institution in many ways. They are designed primarily to house violent offenders with longer sentences (usually in the 20 -year range), and inmates who exhibit behavioral problems. Housing consists of single and double cells, and all perimeters are double-fenced with extensive electronic surveillance. Housing is primarily double bunk, prison cell-type with some institutions having double-bunk cubicles. With double-razor wire fenced perimeters, perimeter patrol and electronic surveillance, medium institutions provide a higher level of security than low facilities but there is some similarities to the controlled movement system..

With that being said this prison I think have too few rights because I did see on the news where there snatching inmates and sending them to other states other than the state they reside in after being incarcerated in dade correctional for 5 or more years. I think its unfair to the prisoners love ones to relocate and person on the count of where you see them fit best. What about the families how come they do not get a say so on this some people may only have that one person to rely on so why not give people the decision to be a peace with where they have been. Another problem I see is reading on them was the correctional officers smuggling drugs to certain inmates but yet before it was the inmates being punished more than the ones bringing in the drugs another point of too few rights.  https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article223213210.html

Response #2

Melissa Westerback posted Feb 13, 2019 5:02 PM

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As soon as a prisoner is incarcerated, they technically lose all their rights. For example, there does not need to be a warrant for their person and cell to be searched like there would be if they were not incarcerated. But even though the prisoners lose their rights, they have a lot of comforts, too many comforts if you ask me. A prisoner gets three meals a day, a place to sleep, a place to shower, exercise equipment, and some even have work. For the most part, their living conditions are clean and relatively safe and I think this results in a lot of reconvictions because it is easier for some to live in prison than on the streets. I have personally know a couple people whom would get arrested just so they had a warm place to sleep at night.