Injustice And Fair Punishment In Prisons

There is a difference between injustice and fair punishment. The different types of prisons and jails affect the way you are treated whether you are in an intake facility or all the way up to a maximum security prison. Prisoners are treated according to the crimes that they have committed, their race/ethnicity, their gender, their experience with substance abuse even mental illnesses. Some inmates have a difficult time coping with the prison system (“9 treatment issues specific to prisons.”) They report feeling traumatized and hopeless. Although people believe that criminals in jail do not deserve equal rights or fair treatment prisoners deserve equal rights and respect within the prison system because of the harsh treatment and punishment inflicted upon them and the living conditions and mental illnesses that they will suffer from. …show more content…
If the inmate killed someone I’m sure that the victim's family would want that person to be killed as well, or treated with an unfair punishment from other inmates. If an inmate killed someone and they are treated worse than someone who robbed a bank, they shouldn’t be too surprised. The treatment of the inmates depends on the crime that they have committed. “When people commit a crime, their punishment is their prison sentence. That's it. The punishment is the confinement. It's the separation from families and friends, the monotony, the lack of privacy, the loss of autonomy, the lousy food, the absence of independence.” (“Huffpost Crime”) People do stupid things and get caught all the time. It is the people that get caught that get the beat down. The jail system treats the inmates like trash, they have no