Prison Riot in Indiana - Prisoner Rights, What do you think?
@e_williams_07 (16)
United States
April 24, 2007 4:47pm CST
Today's prison riot in Indiana, which seems to have been caused by a group of prisoners that transferred in from Arizona, raises a lot of questions about the state of our prison system. Should prisoners be transferred this far away from their home, where the chance of ever receiving a family member visit is slim to none? Should prisons (like the prison in Indiana) be run by private corporations, which receive little to no governmental oversight?
I'm personally of the opinion that corporations running prisons is a bad thing, at least in its current form with little oversight. I also feel that no way should these prisoners have been transferred this far away from their homes. Not being able to have any face to face contact with family could only make a stressful prison life worse, raising the odds that riots like this occur.
Whatcha think?
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@RobinJ (2501)
• Canada
24 Apr 07
I have a great deal of difficulty to be sympathetic toward prisoners they are in prison for a reason, they broke the law. I will be willing to bet a small amount of money they were not thinking on anyones rights when they broke the law that landed them in prison. To me prisons are there to punish the wrongdoer for his crime not to give him 3 squares a day and a bed to sleep in and a roof over his head and rights as well. I believe that anyone that breaks the law knows that if they do prison time they will have a good life only they just can't leave when they want to. I have much more compassion for out street people because at one time there were institutes for the mentally ill, now they wander the streets because some one didn't like to see them locked up and the government found it cheaper to pay some one to pass out a few pills rather than cloth and look after these poor individuals. So I guess it is the case of pick your own poison, and as you can see I picked mine
@e_williams_07 (16)
• United States
24 Apr 07
While in general I don't disagree with your sentiments, I do feel that we have an obligation to provide them with some level of basic rights. I'd hope we, as taxpayers, aren't paying for cable TV and the best exercise equipment for criminals, but I think they should at least be "stored" (for lack of a better term) in the same state as their crime. At a very minimum it keeps them out of my state if they weren't here to begin with.
