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They decide they don’t like a prisoner 's behavior; they punish them. While many people will say that this is justified because incarcerated people are criminals, it is estimated 384 people from 1980 to 2003 were falsely convicted. Also, while the justice system has different punishments for different crimes, if a guard decides to abuse a prisoner it most likely will not differ if they committed tax fraud, murder or rape. The justice system also takes into account all sides of a crime, where guards aren’t even punishing them for a crime; just their opinion of the prisoners behaviour. As described in the last paragraph, people often get their mutual respect warped when in power and because of this we cannot justify their actions purely based off of opinion. Many will say that this is justified because guards are also abused. However, it often goes much farther than just physical abuse most common for guards; also common is sexual abuse and psychological manipulation/abuse. An particular example of the psychological advantage prison guards have taken over prisoners is the incident of the fights in a prison in Corcoran. The vast majority of prisoners were a part of one of two opposing gangs, and such was the conflict the gang members had to be constantly separated. To fuel the fire between the gangs guards told each group lies about the other. When the hatred for each other peaked, …show more content…
Guards taking advantage over prisoners is unconstitutional, unethical and dangerous. If we allow those in one of the most important positions of power to use their personal opinion to determine who deserves to suffer and not, who would stop police from doing this to citizens? The president to the people of his country? If we justify this to happen in prisons, we are allowing it. If we justify people in power to discipline based off of opinion, we are justifying the abuse of anyone under the power of someone else, and if I’m not confused, that’s you,