America's Penitentiaries
The United States is facing a huge problem concerning the nation's penitentiaries. Prison guards and politicians are concerned about the problems in jails; however the saddest thing is that our citizens are aware of the situation but don't do anything about it. The populace seems to accept the problem; assuming that prisoners lose their rights once they are incarcerated. What is the problem in our prisons? The answer seems to be the violation of human rights and the crimes that are occurring in penitentiaries without being reported or resolved. In our penitentiaries, problems like rape, racism, gangs, robbery, assault, extortion, drug abuse and murder within the walls of the prisons are cries so serious that they are deteriorating the American correctional system. Of all the crimes mentioned, the most serious one in prisons is male rape. In the United States, this offense is ignored, because most people take it for granted that it is going to happen. An evidence of this is when movies have scenes parodying this grave crisis (Hell Behind Bars 24). Accor
Fortunately, some of the prisons are taking action, by segregating weak-looking, and effeminate, or transsexual offenders from other prisoners (Hell Behind Bars 24). The success of the reform efforts will depend on whether the public is willing to recognize that even convicted offenders have fundamental human rights and that condoning repeated violations of those rights serves no legitimate public purpose. The solution to the problem is to provide sufficient funding to the community-based mental health system so that people can be helped before they become part of the prison system. Services like medication therapy and monitoring, residential services, rehabilitation services, and support services are successful in bringing the severely mentally ill back to communities. People go to jail because the society wants to punish them, but the punishments of prison rape seem manifestly at odds with commonly accepted standards of justice (Hell Behind Bars 24). We must change that philosophy. ding to Cindy Stuckman-Johnson, who reported in the Journal of Sex Research
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