Correctional Facilities

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The prison system is filled with people from various backgrounds and lifestyles. People who come into the system not knowing who they will encounter while they are there. Prisoners who are members of various gangs are intermixed with prisoners who may suffer from mental illness, sex offenders and juveniles have the possibility of sharing the same cell. While there are systems and policies in place that helps at times to protect each prisoner, the same systems and policies can create an environment that is detrimental to prisoners. Theses people enter the prison system having to give up many rights that for the years that they are incarcerated will be controlled by wardens and guards, however the same inalienable rights that they were born with are not given up, and any system or policies that denies then these rights is abusive. There are ways to improve the prison system that allows the people who enter them to keep important rights while paying their debt to society.

It should first be mentioned that prisons were created to be rehabilitative facility as well as a punitive organization. While prisons have succeeded in punishing people for their crimes, the prisons have less often rehabilitated those people. For example, many prisoners who suffer from mental illnesses or drug addictions at the time if incarceration receive minimal treatment for their diseases,

despite the fact that the disease helped them become incarcerated. Except for life-threatening illnesses, prisoners typically wait for weeks in order to get important treatment from physicians at hospitals, which means that daily treatments that could resolve many of the prisoners; issues are not provided (Clark, 2010). Prisoners with mental illnesses or other...

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