Guantanamo Bay Over 12 years of injustice have been given to the inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison. Guantanamo Bay prison is unfair and unjust for many reason and should be closed.The first reason is nasal feeding enforced even though it is painful and harmful. The second reason is inmates are subject to cruel punishments .The third reason is prisoners have no way of proving that they are innocent.This is just the tip of the iceberg on why Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed. Guantanamo Bay has been in control by America since the Spanish American war.Guantanamo bay was used as a coaling station for american navy ships.According to” A Brief History of Gitmo” by Alyssa Fetini. . “The 45-square-mile site was originally used as a coaling station for U.S. Navy ships, under a lease drawn up in 1903”. This is very important because this shows how Guantanamo bay was used as something positive and beneficial to America.Guantanamo bay was then a “haven” for Haitian refugees. According to the same article ” A Brief History of Gitmo” by Alyssa Fetini.in the early 1990s “when it became a vital haven for Haitian refugees fleeing the violent coup that ravaged their country.”This is also another example on how Guantanamo bay was used in a positive and helpful way.Guantanamo bay has been through many changes and uses and has a lot of history behind it. Rodriguez 2 Nasal feeding is enforced to inmates on hunger strike that refuses to eat. Nasal feeding is a long process that can take up to two hours and is painful and unsanitary. According to Guantána... ... middle of paper ... ...and deserve to be there for the crimes they have committed and they also cause risk to national security according to “ Keep Guantanamo open: Opposing view”.People think this is true because terrorist are dangerous people and do pose a threat to everyone's safety.On the other hand the people at Guantanamo bay are mostly suspects and everyone is innocent until proven guilty.In Guantanamo Bay prison you do not have the right to prove you are innocent and it is very difficult to try. Guantanamo bay should be closed.The first reason is nasal feeding enforced even though it is painful and harmful.The second reason is inmates are subject to cruel punishments.The third reason is prisoners have no way of proving that they are innocent. Rodriguez 4 There are many more reasons.Guantanamo Bay should be closed because innocent people are suffering and its inhuman.
For instance in the witch trials the accused were brought to court and unfairly tried in court. This is different from the situation in Guantanamo Bay. Suspected terrorist are placed in jail instantly, and may never have the chance to be tried. Another way they are different is that it was publicly announced when someone went to jail for being a witch while in Guantanamo Bay people are taken from around the world and no one knows where they go and they are just missing and end up in Guantanamo Bay. A person who goes to Guantanamo has no contact with the outside world and their family may never know what happened to their loved ones. Much has changed since the salem witch trials though. In Guantanamo Bay people are not told to confess or be killed. They are in jail and told to give up information or they could be tortured and not killed. During the witch trials, if they confessed to being a witch or accused others, they were put in jail or even released. If they said they were not guilty they were hung, without
Gresham M. Sykes describes the society of captives from the inmates’ point of view. Sykes acknowledges the fact that his observations are generalizations but he feels that most inmates can agree on feelings of deprivation and frustration. As he sketches the development of physical punishment towards psychological punishment, Sykes follows that both have an enormous effect on the inmate and do not differ greatly in their cruelty.
The death and torture rates are extremely high where the prisoners are
26. Glover Julian, “Guantanamo piled lie upon lie through the momentum of its own existence” in The Guardian, April 25, 2011
In the world we live in today there is, has been, and always will be an infinite amount of controversies throughout society. Perhaps one of the most important, being that it could jeopardize our existence, is the debate of how to deal with what most everyone would consider unwanted. The members of the prison population can range from petty thieves to cold hearted serial killers; so the conflict arises on how they can all be dealt with the most efficient way. The sides can result in a wide range of opinions such as simply thinking a slap on the wrist is sufficient; to even thinking that death is the only way such a lesson can be learned. While many believe it is ok to punish and torture prisoners, others feel that cruel treatment of prison inmates is wrong because it is thought to be immoral and too extreme as opposed to deprived freedom and rehabilitation.
A Writ of Habeas Corpus is an authoritative order forcing governments to provide the “body” of the detainee in which the legality of their detention and individual liberties will be challenged. Historically associated with civil liberty violation and the injustice of illegally detaining potentially enemies of the state, jurisdictional issues regarding their detaining location have made justice difficult to administer and deliver. Detaining enemies for their participation, involvement, and/or ties to threats of terror towards the United States will result the confinement of combatants, as solidified by the US Constitution, however, to what extent will they be forced to stay?. Residents of Guantanamo Bay are just; enemies of the state, accused individual that have been arrested and detain with minimal civil human rights to our jurisdictional due process that we American’s hold dear; with only a Writ of Habeas Corpus as their life line to legality and freedom. Although controversial in its conception and implementation by US presidential administration, judiciary members have cordially interpreted cases of questionable detention and the legality of doing so. It is truly unfortunate when individuals are tossed into confinement illegally with no help and/or the promise of their restorative freedoms (ACLU, 2014).
In Iraq in 2003, the US set its sights on Abu Ghraib to facilitate the rising number of criminals and detainees from combat operations. Saddam Hussein used Abu Ghraib as a prison for his political enemies and criminals within Iraq, which made
...en and women. The “victims” sitting in Guantanamo are being tortured for crimes not committed by them and are being rewarded with no families or loved ones and psychological trauma. Through many studies it has been proven that these victims will commit to false information just to stop the pain. Enhanced interrogation is one of the more popular techniques used to induce information from possible suspects; however, this technique is immoral in ways such as, but not limited to, impacting the victims life, family, and friends, the side effects of enhanced interrogation are disgusting, and in most cases victims admit to the false accusations which is in no way beneficial to the main problem. It has been proven that these methods are ineffective and are often misleading, in fact there are other much more humane methods which have been proven beneficial in many cases.
Overcrowding is one of the predominate reasons that Western prisons are viewed as inhumane. Chapman’s article has factual information showing that some prisons have as many as three times the amount of prisoners as allowed by maximum space standards. Prison cells are packed with four to five prisoners in a limited six-foot-by-six-foot space, which then, leads to unsanitary conditions. Prisons with overcrowding are exposed to outbreaks of infectious diseases such as, tuberculosis and hepatitis.
America prides itself in treated all individuals humanely and fairly, and even one person under force suffering is against what America stands for. America should never justify torture based on our beliefs we were built on. Bruce Anderson says, “A man can retain his human dignity in front of a firing squad or on the scaffold: not in a torture chamber. Torturers set out to break their victim: to take human being and reduce him to a whimpering wreck” (Anderson 1). America does not believe in breaking someone down, but rather build them up. When an American messes up, in jail we continue to build them up. We help them get a college degree, try to work some of their unwanted qualities out, and give them the opportunities to better themselves. America is supposed to be the leader and teach the world that torture is not the answer. That is why nearly a quarter of American people believe torture should never be used of justified (ProQuest 2). Americans still hold the core values that this beautiful country was built
Is the American Prison System Inhumane? Absolutely. It is badly overcrowded that they have to be sent to some other prison do to that overcrowding. Also, something that people should remember is that not everyone in jail has been convicted; many are awaiting trial or some are trying to immigrate to the US and are being held until their case can be reviewed.
The features of enhanced confinement that consistently draw the most profound condemnation revolve around: the often-brutal forms and compassionless deprivations in which these units or facilities operate, the harrowing living conditions that inmates are compelled to endure, the resulting physical and psychological damage to body and soul, and the questionable legality of such confinement. Leading human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are regularly outing the United States for operating torturous prisons that house convicted criminals in the most deplorable and extra-legal conditions. (Marion Experiment pgs.
The book’s title, with its dry allusion to the separation of powers, does not do it justice. “Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power” represents the best account yet of what Mr. Margulies calls “a human rights debacle that will eventually take its place alongside other wartime misadventures, including the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the prosecutions under the Espionage and Sedition Acts during World War I, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.”
Did you know that, Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from any human contact based on Wikipedia.org. Many prisoners do illegal crimes and hurt other Americans which is a big no-no. Since, Crime rates in US has rose sharply in 2011-2012, I think Solitary Confinement should be allowed in the United States because, Solitary confinement gives a lesson to criminals of not to play illegally with Americans, Solitary confinement has been a common way to deal with "dangerous" peoples for long periods of time plus, it triples the annual cost of incarceration, and Solitary Confinement can help prevent prison-breakouts.
On September 11, 2001, this country was under attack and thousands of Americans died at the hands of terrorists. This action caused the U.S. Military to invade Iraq because of the idea that this country was involved in harboring terrorist and were believed to have weapons of mass destruction. This was an executive order that came down from our government, for us to go in and attack Iraq while searching for those who were responsible for the death of American lives. This war brought in many prisoners whom were part of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, whom the military took into custody many of its lower level members to get tips in capturing higher level members. During the detainees stay at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, many of these prisoners