Prisoners' rights

Are they meant to punish those those have committed crimes, or to rehabilitate prisoners into a new and productive member of society and send them on their way? Some even believe prisons to be a holding place to keep the rest of society safe. All of this leads to the constitutional issue of how those who are incarcerated should be treated and what rights they may have. The big question is whether or not prisoners’ rights are being violated based on conditions and treatments in the prisons. Some…

being secured so that they cannot look left, right or even behind them, but only straightforward. Behind them is a flame, and behind the flame is an incomplete divider. On top of the divider are different statues, which are controlled by another gathering of individuals, lying beyond anyone's ability to see behind the halfway divider. As a result of the flame, the statues cast shadows over the divider that the prisoners are looking at. Since the prisoners have never known reality other than…

advice from the other prisoners. Conformity is expressed through the prison guards clothing, and the prisoner’s actions. Obedience to authority is seen through Dragline – Luke’s right hand man – who believes following rules will lead to a positive outcome. Luke spent most of his life conforming, and being obedient in the military. After all this time following rules and orders, he decided…

cave, humans trapped as prisoners, and all of our experiences as shadows on a wall. Plato describes the cave like this, “imagine men to be living in an underground cave-like dwelling place, which has a way up to the light along its whole width, but the entrance is a long way up” (Kessler, 440). The prisoners have been there from childhood, and are chained and unable to turn…

The allegory of a cave is analogous to a world of visible reality in a cave, and a world of reality that can be seen by intelligence outside a cave. The prisoners who are locked in a cave that cannot even look inside the cave in the cave are confused by the rational judgment, the slave of the desire not to be able to make a good judgment, the shadow that blurs the rational judgment, The person who can come…

their own "cave". The people that are in Plato's' cave, the prisoners, have always been there. They all have their legs and necks chained and cannot move. They cannot turn their necks or bodies to look around them. The cave is very dark and there is a fire in the distance. There is a wall in front of them and men are frequently carrying tools and vessels and various shaped objects with them. This creates different shaped shadows for the prisoners to view. All that…

“Twenty-one percent of prisoners and 14% of jail inmates reported ever having tuberculosis, hepatitis B or C, or other STDs (excluding HIV or AIDS).” (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2016). This paper will explore the question: Do you agree with Dr. Albert M. Kligman that prisoners should be again involved in medical trials? This paper will develop a position paper addressing both sides of the issue. This paper will provide a historical overview of the significant benefits and detriments involving…

At the beginning he described the perspective of the prisoners and how we, in a way, are those prisoners. He also describes the environment of the prisoners; he stated that the prisoners are chained inside a cave. Here the “cave” symbolizes how we all live in a world that we consider reality. Ever since we are able to comprehend the world around us, we hold some perspective of that reality that may be false. Once the prisoner was freed and was allowed to look at the light behind him, Socrates…

people manage to see the light through a life changing event. Gandhi’s life changing event is similar to both the protagonist Siddhartha, in Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and the released prisoners in The Allegory of the Cave by Plato. Therefore Mahatma Gandhi’s life parallels with that of Siddhartha and the prisoners: he was born in a life of luxury and “darkness” yet realized the true pain and, in the process, becomes one with the world. At the beginning, both Gandhi and Siddhartha are blinded…

Sheehan explains how people are living in cavelike dwelling like prisoners and not in the real word. It’s telling us how people are stuck in one place because they don't believe that there is something different from what and where they are living. In the story there was a prisoner that had escaped from the cave and was able to view the outside world and how different it was. Once he went back into the cave and told the other prisoners what he had seen they didn't believe him and they wanted to…