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Prisoners' Rights To Physical And Mental Health Care: A Modern Expansion Of The Eight Amendment's Cruel And Unusual Punishment Clause , Stuart Klein
Prisoners' Rights To Physical And Mental Health Care: A Modern Expansion Of The Eight Amendment's Cruel And Unusual Punishment Clause , Stuart Klein
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article addresses the need for appropriate mental health care in the prison system. Applying the eighth amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause, the article outlines the current system for medical care and psychological programs within jails and prisons. Focusing on the deficiencies of medical care, the article proposes adding support to the modernization of mental health care by recognizing that the eighth amendment applies not just to the terms of imprisonment but to the availability of care.
The Politics Of Punishment: A Critical Analysis Of Prisons In America, Warrren Richmond
The Politics Of Punishment: A Critical Analysis Of Prisons In America, Warrren Richmond
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The problem of prisons and prison reform has become a subject of much discussion and study in our country. It has been suggested that it is in society’s best interest to invest substantial resources to develop prisons as rehabilitation centers and not as factories of crime so ex-prisoners will return to society as useful citizens. Wright sets forth why crime and prisons will remain fundamentally the same until a radical change is made in society itself. Levels of crime in America are substantially the result of ‘political choices’. After establishing who goes to prison and why, Wright concludes that prisons …