Prisoners' rights

Prisoner rights are rights given to prisoners while serving time in prison. There are many different rights discussed in this essay about rights such as work, education and personal property. Prisoners’ rights are a civil liberty because it complies with the laws of the constitution. Throughout the extensive period of time in which prisoner’s fought for their rights, many historical events and periods such as the hands-off period, the civil rights period, court cases such as Procunier vs Martinez and influential people such as Malcolm x all changed the countries attitude tremendously which ultimately led to prisoners receiving rights. During most of the history of the United States, prisoners had no legal right to humane conditions of confinement…

I believe that all prisoners should retain all rights like any other ordinary citizen. Even though prisoners do not have full constitutional rights; they are protected by the eighth amendment’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment”. Regardless of the situation and the circumstance that caused them to take the wrong path; they are still people like us and should be treated equally. For example every citizen has the right to a fair trial prior to convection. In my opinion they should…

Introduction A voting right can be defined as a special right that is given to a common shareholder for purposes of voting in person or by proxy on the affairs of a nation. Voting rights differ from one country to the other and the people who are eligible to vote in different countries vary1. The variations are brought about by different Acts that are developed by legislators from different countries in different geographic locations. As such, it is always good to have the idea on how the…

The question surrounding the United States today is should prisoners have rights and if they should what rights do they deserve to have and which ones should be stripped away from them. Some people believe that if a person commits a crime that they do not deserve to have any rights at all, but others may argue that everyone even a criminal should have some type of rights given to them. Prisoners must have several basic rights because they cannot fend for themselves while behind bars. When…

How would one might feel if their rights were taken away despite having no constitutional writing that states that those privileges are revoked? Step into the shoes of a prisoner or felon who is eventually going to come back into the regular American life but is prohibited from having his say as to how his country should be run. Corey Brettschneider wrote his article “Why Prisoners Deserve the Right to Vote” for the Politico Magazine in 2016, detailing his views as to why prisoners should be…

Do prisoners have the right to vote? in my country and also in the UK, New Zealand and a few other places if you are in prison you cannot vote. Judging by the almost total lack of public discussion about this, most people in the United States at least seem to be fine with that. It is something we do not really talk about, something we do not really think about and whenever this gets brought up somebody usually says something like “if you break the law you lose your rights” or “voting is a…

Prisoner rights are a controversial topic because it is unclear what rights prisoners deserve and do not deserve. The strongest counter argument is the inmates broke the law, which is suggesting breaking the law determines what rights a criminal will have and criminals will not have. However, in my view, prisoners are people, even though they made wrong choices. Therefore, I maintain prisoners do deserve to have better rights. However, inmates broke the law. In the article, “On the Rights of…

One key element to providing those prisoner rights is the 8th amendment. The 8th amendment states that excessive bail amounts will not be charged to the defendant, and no cruel or unusual punishment will be imposed. Though this was originally only applied to federal prisoners, the U.S. Supreme court later began applying various aspects of the bill of rights to state jurisdictions as well. As such the 8th amendment became relevant to how inmates were being treated, and the conditions they were…

The topic of prisoner rights has been highly controversial, dating back to the early 1900’s. Between Canada and the United States there are many different aspects of prisoners rights, for example education, fair treatment, and voting rights. Specifically, whether or not prisoners should be allowed to vote has brought many different opinions to light, expressing their discomfort or support for such a highly controversial topic. Those who support disfranchisement usually claim they don’t “trust”…

right to vote do not have independent time limits, it could last from one day until the whole life. Moreover, voting in countries usually happens one time in four years. It means that some of the prisoners will receive additional punishment and some not. Interesting issue is the voting right pretrial detainees. Those people have not been convicted for the crime, but still the same restrictions as for prisoners are imposed on detainees in the USA. Should be noted that derogation of prisoner right…