The constitutional rights of prisoners 15.2.1 THE RIGHTS OF SENTENCED PRISONERS In South Africa, there have been a number of court cases with important decisions on discrimination and the rights of prisoners with HIV. The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has committed itself to a policy ofnon-discriminationin handling prisoners with HIV.
My kids lose their rights when they hit, Spit and act like animals.. So why should an adult who clearly knows right from wrong have all the same rights that I do. I'm not saying prisoners of light crimes should lose rights but murderers, Molesters, Rapists they don't even deserve to breath the air as far as Im concerned. Prison is a joke.
Prisoner rights are important to maintaining balance within the prison system. They give the prisoners a voice, which prevents prison officials from abusing their power. Prisoner rights are necessary to maintaining a particular level of care for inmates, for it forces the correctional staff to be more hands on in their approach.
Judges believed prisoners had no rights because they had forfeited them as a result of their crimes, and judges didn't interfere with the administration of correctional institutions because they didn't want to violate the principle of separation of power (in other words, the courts didn't want to interfere with the authority of the executive branch to administer prisons).
Prisons are places to incarcerate offenders who in society posed a threat, committed a crime and were charged by the courts to serve time. A prisoner retains all the rights of an ordinary citizen except those expressly, or by necessary implications, taken from him by law. (Coffin v. Reichard) Inma.
Freedom of speech and association includes the right to read books and magazines, the right to call or write to your family and friends, the right to criticize government or state officials, and much more. However, in prison those rights are restricted by the prison’s need for security and administrative ease.
Essay text: These basic rules seem obvious to us today, but they represent the foundation of prisoner rights, the idea that even if we break the rules of our society we are still afforded basic rights that can not be taken from us.