Today, the closest we come to public executions is through the use of closed-circuit TV. In some cases, there are more relatives than the witness area can hold, so an overflow room may be set up in another room inside the prison that allows family witnesses to watch the execution via closed-circuit TV. In Illinois, family members can only view the execution through closed-circuit TV. Once properly dressed, the inmate is taken to the execution chamber. They either walk on their own or are restrained to and rolled in on a gurney.
When one visits, it results in preserving a healthy relationship once the inmate is released. Visiting has such a positive impact on those who are living in the facility but, it is a long process to become a visitor. New or reoccurring, all visitors must fill out an application an send it to either the public or private prison unit, incomplete applications will be rejected. The number of visitors an offender may receive and the length of the visit may be limited by the facility’s schedule, space, and personnel constraints. In addition, many rules come in to play like: no person will be allowed to socially visit more that one offender, unless they are part of a family, any person representing a certain health hazard will not be allowed into the facility.
Ackerman always says, “if you treat inmates like human beings they will act like human beings”. Santos explains the difference between UPS Atlanta and FCI McKean and how each institutions staff members treat the inmates. Some staff members in prisons are there to help those inmates no matter what crime(s) the individual has committed. As for some, their job is just to keep and maintain order meanwhile not having anything to do with helping in the rehabilitation process of those inmates. Santos explains how one of the wardens, in the FCI McKean institution Warden Luther, was there to help those inmates.
Many of these factors boil down to personal beliefs and value systems. We were challenged to look at several examples of good Samaritans, vigilantism, civil disobedience and crimes among professionals. As a team we had to compare our value systems with those who had been involved in each of these situations. In the Good Samaritan cases, we had a general consensus that we would like to be a Good Samaritan. In the vigilantism cases, although we could all relate to the frustration involved for the actors, we all agree that one must stay within the bounds of the law to seek out justice.
They break us down. But there is no buildup. It’s like prison” (37). This is the same kind of feeling most of the new officers shared with Moskos. After the academy he talks about how the first few months of policing are in field training with a training officer and they show you the ropes of policing.
One that really needed to change was the living conditions in jails and the ones that were in charge of inmates (Todd R.CLear, 2011). Today with the help of litigations, advocacy’s, and public education, we are working to ensure that conditions of confinement are constitutional and consistent with health, safety, and respect and dignity of all inmates. Even through those inmates that are in solitary confinement, suffer less neglect than they have been in years earlier, and overcrowding still remains a major problem, the fact that living conditions and even abuse on inmates has been eliminated (Todd R.CLear, 2011). The prison rights movement has successfully made an impact in the way today inmates or treated and how they are living. There goals of reducing the existing incarcerated population, especially among people of color, the mentally ill, and other vulnerable populations; ending cruel, inhuman, and degrading conditions of confinement is been made.
The ethical treatment of prisoners is topic that people agree and disagree. Their arguments are mainly based on their personal emotions, there are many individuals in prison all over the US, but the ethical treatment of the prisoners’ rights must be examined. As a community, have we done all we can regarding the treatment of prisoners? On the other hand, can we say we have made prison an easy lifestyle that is no longer punishment for some? Utilitarianism is the perception that those ethical guidelines should be options created by a community to advertise the pleasure of its members.
2a) Describe one way the researchers tried to ensure ethical guidelines were upheld One way in which the researchers tried to ensure ethical guidelines were upheld was by having two independent clinical psychologists monitoring the study throughout and had the right to see any participant or demand a participant be removed from the study at any time. 2b) Outline one reason why stress or psychological harm is an ethical concern in this study As the participants are put in an unusual artificial situation it was not possible to predict how each individual would react and how much stress they would undergo. As one of the ethical guidelines is protection from physical/emotional harm, this may have been broken if things in the prison got out of control i.e. some dominant prisoners such as Petkin or Edwards intimidating other people. 3) From Reicher and Haslams BBC prison study, describe the prison environment created for this study Prisoners were allocated to lockable 3-person cells.
Cultural relativism is the idea that the moral principles someone has are solely determined by the culture one lives in. These ideas seem to make sense because we as a culture understand that the judgments people make in a different culture will differ from ours whether we choose to support it or not. Our culture has different moral judgments as well and does not look at something like killing someone for stealing as morally right since our culture values human life above theft. Cultural relativism does not exist because some principles are universal and not relative only to culture. People also have the ability to think morally for themselves so morality is relative to someone’s point of view.
Programs not suitable for young viewers are aired later in the evening when its presumed they have gone to bed. The temporal routine of analogue TV is dependable; the time of day is defined though the shows which are expected at a certain point. The news cycle on free to air TV exemplifies Scannell’s idea of ‘Dailiness’. In contrast to analogue TV, digital subscription television does not construct ‘the day’. With multiple channels screening shows 24/7 there is a breakdown of the time zone viewing imposed by free to air TV; kids’ cartoons run all day and all night on channels like Cartoon Network.