Introduction African American males are excessively represented in America’s incarcerated population. According to a report published by the US Justice Department, in 2003, the males, specifically those aged between 25 and 29, were overly represented in the country’s prisons. It appears...
The prison in the present case is widely associated with a high number of prisoner litigation over a number of years. A study established that many prisoners sue the prison owing to the substandard living conditions it affords inmates, the abuses...
Insane Prisoners Should Not Be Medicated Forcibly To Ready Them for Execution In 2003, the Arkansas state was allowed by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to compel Charles Laverne, a prisoner on death row, take medication to ensure that...
Prisons, certainly, are essential. In all areas hosting people, there will always be crime, as well as conflict, thus a need for prisons. Even then, no nation should draw pride from establishing prisons. An oddly high number of correctional facilities in...
Overview For a long time, NAMI and other organizations, as well as individuals, have persisted in calling on the Congress to ensure that mentally ill persons who are convicted by the courts are not incarcerated as typical criminals (Pfeiffer, 2007; Torrey,...
Legal Mechanisms of Challenging Confinement Prisoners have certain inalienable rights. This is despite the fact that the prisoners may have committed grave offenses leading to their imprisonment. Inmates may use two legal mechanisms to challenge their confinement. These include the writ...
Suicide is recognized as a critical problem within the jail environment for inmates faced with the issue of initial incarceration, but the issue of prison suicide has not received comparable attention. Although the rate of suicide in prisons is lower than...