There are many different types of abuse that accrue in prison and not all of it is from the inmates; for this paper will be talking about all forms of abuse that happen in prison which includes neglect and the way that the guards themselves treat the inmates. The number of ways that the prison system can abuse an inmate is nearly endless since people need to look at it from every angle to see everything that is really happening. Some forms of abuse are small like simple neglect of the inmate by not giving them proper care, yet there are cases of strong abuse like guards beating or even raping the prisons. So, I will try to address all the forms of abuse that happen and see if I can find ways to fix them even though I know that even I don’t
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Yet, when I read an article on a Texas prison that neglected their inmates what I found was not the first thing I thought about when I thought about neglect since the stories they talked about were just disturbing since it sounded like high level abuse of a different kind. It talked about how the Texas prison had set up a work force that forces inmates to cut stone. No this doesn’t sound bad on the outside but when I looked closer I found something disturbing since the article said: “Convicts assigned to state projects existed in the same dismal, cruel, and inhumane conditions as those leased to private entities. Self-mutilation, such as cutting off one's fingers or toes or otherwise injuring oneself to avoid the lease work, was commonplace, as was suicide.” (Price, Coleman) Meaning that the inmates where worked so hard they would rather harm themselves than be forced to work for this program. Yet, this case is special since they neglected the care of the inmates so much that even after the inmates self-mutilated themselves the guards would punish them for not work which is just plain abuse. So, though this is not the first time I have heard of inmates working in prison this was the first time I have read something like this proving that even simple neglect of the inmates can turn into hard core
Yet, when I read an article on a Texas prison that neglected their inmates what I found was not the first thing I thought about when I thought about neglect since the stories they talked about were just disturbing since it sounded like high level abuse of a different kind. It talked about how the Texas prison had set up a work force that forces inmates to cut stone. No this doesn’t sound bad on the outside but when I looked closer I found something disturbing since the article said: “Convicts assigned to state projects existed in the same dismal, cruel, and inhumane conditions as those leased to private entities. Self-mutilation, such as cutting off one's fingers or toes or otherwise injuring oneself to avoid the lease work, was commonplace, as was suicide.” (Price, Coleman) Meaning that the inmates where worked so hard they would rather harm themselves than be forced to work for this program. Yet, this case is special since they neglected the care of the inmates so much that even after the inmates self-mutilated themselves the guards would punish them for not work which is just plain abuse. So, though this is not the first time I have heard of inmates working in prison this was the first time I have read something like this proving that even simple neglect of the inmates can turn into hard core