Living behind bars is never easy. It’s something that many people can’t handle. Living in a cell with nothing but a bed and a toilet is something many people couldn't handle. Prisoners have experiences that people would never want to endure and wouldn’t wish upon anyone else. There’s people who are living in overcrowded prisons, disabled inmates are being denied assistance and services for their disability, and mentally ill prisoners being mistreated and taking over prisons. People living with disabilities have restrictions that aren’t easy to live with. Prisoners in Florida are mistreated and ridiculed because of their disabilities. A lawsuit regarding the mistreatment of thirty two disabled prisoners in Florida being mistreated involved
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The mistreatment that disabled prisoner experience by the prison officials can be life threatening. One prisoner sued Florida’s Santa Rosa Correctional Institution after he had substantial injuries when put into solitary confinement, without his wheelchair; forcing him to “drag himself across the dirty abrasive cell floor” (Kam). The treatment of Florida’s disabled prisoners is inhumane and cruel. Florida must improve the conditions of prisons to ensure disabled prisoners aren’t being overlooked, because they could be in harm’s way at any moment. Prison officials should have mandatory training on how to work with all types of disabled prisoners, and tend to them as needed. Waiting for an accident is too long to assisting disabled …show more content…
The action to handle the rapid increase of mentally ill prisoners isn't helping Instead, lawmakers continue to cut funding for mental health services, even though the number of Florida’s prisoners diagnosed with mental illnesses has increased 150 percent over the past two decades (Gilna). Not only do mentally ill prisoners have to survive through their illness, but also from mistreatment by prison officials. A newly hired prison guard in one of Florida’s correctional institutions was informed by an inmate in the psychiatric area that they were being starved (Press). They can be restricted from things that are assumed to be helpful to their treatment, such as going outside for exercise for weeks or months (Press). People being kept in cells for most of the day only getting an hour or two of sunlight and fresh air is needed for those who are mentally stable, mentally ill prisoners will need much more. Prison Florida must make an effort to ensure that prisoners mentally ill and stable are able to have basic essentials to
The mistreatment that disabled prisoner experience by the prison officials can be life threatening. One prisoner sued Florida’s Santa Rosa Correctional Institution after he had substantial injuries when put into solitary confinement, without his wheelchair; forcing him to “drag himself across the dirty abrasive cell floor” (Kam). The treatment of Florida’s disabled prisoners is inhumane and cruel. Florida must improve the conditions of prisons to ensure disabled prisoners aren’t being overlooked, because they could be in harm’s way at any moment. Prison officials should have mandatory training on how to work with all types of disabled prisoners, and tend to them as needed. Waiting for an accident is too long to assisting disabled …show more content…
The action to handle the rapid increase of mentally ill prisoners isn't helping Instead, lawmakers continue to cut funding for mental health services, even though the number of Florida’s prisoners diagnosed with mental illnesses has increased 150 percent over the past two decades (Gilna). Not only do mentally ill prisoners have to survive through their illness, but also from mistreatment by prison officials. A newly hired prison guard in one of Florida’s correctional institutions was informed by an inmate in the psychiatric area that they were being starved (Press). They can be restricted from things that are assumed to be helpful to their treatment, such as going outside for exercise for weeks or months (Press). People being kept in cells for most of the day only getting an hour or two of sunlight and fresh air is needed for those who are mentally stable, mentally ill prisoners will need much more. Prison Florida must make an effort to ensure that prisoners mentally ill and stable are able to have basic essentials to