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write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
- Which Amendment in the Bill of Rights do you feel is the most important with regard to the rights of incarcerated individuals? Explain your reasoning.
- What major issues exist with regard to the legality of corrections programs? Explain.
- Do you feel that prisoners should be allowed recreational programs? Why or why not?
- Do you feel that prisoners should be allowed various types of luxuries such as television, reading materials, and so on? Why or why not?
- What do you think constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in a correctional environment? Explain.
- How do you feel about medical care provided to prisoners? Explain.
- Should there be any restrictions? Why or why not?
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Amendment on Rights of Incarcerated Individuals
The most important bill for the Rights of a prisoner is the eighth amendment. It states that
every individual has a right to be free from treatments that are merciless or whatever thing
measured to be unusual and cruel castigation. In an unfortunate situation, the eighth amendment
has not clearly defined the way unusual and cruel punishment constitutes. This means that these
definitions were summoned from case law. In broad, for any penalty that is said to be a treatment
that is inhumane, for example, abuse and torture, or personal dignity violation, can be supposed to
be unusual and cruel in the discretion of the law court, (Ahalt, 2018).
The culture of punishment and race plus class-based animus led to the United States relying
on incarceration in a more pressurized way than any other country in the world. Criminal justice
politicization policy plus the scarcity of a...
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