Why should we care if prisons are over crowded or if they are sanitary..shouldnt they have to live in shambles

Answer 1

They oughtta be working in factories making money to pay for themselves.

Answer 2

They are in prison. That in fact is the punishment. Loss of freedom is a punishment. Unsanitary living conditions could actually backfire on the population as a whole. Who ever heard of a disease knowing the difference between the imprisoned or the guard.
The guard leaves and goes to the store now you got it. Kapeach?
See here in America we like to feel we are better than most other nations who treat prisoners and poor people bad. We like to feel we are humane. Civilized.We look ahead and try to rehabilitate prisoners so as to not have repeat offenders.
I know here in the real world.
Still we like to try. I'm sure you can see the sense in the clean reason for the health of a close living nation. We need clean sanitary prisons.

Answer 3

What an indecent and inhumane view! Not to mention extremely short sighted... Overcrowding is a sure trigger for violence, creating heightened danger for inmates and staff members.
It also drastically reduces any chance of rehabilitation by limiting the percentage of inmates who can participate in work programs and educational programs and creating a hostile, non-productive environment virtually assures that everyone in that environnment will sink to the lowest common denominator socially. Prison IS punishment, but it is also supposed to provide at least a chance for an inmate to improve himself and that cannot happen if every minute is spent trying to survive.
As for sanitary conditions- Staph infection, tuburculosis and HepC are all rampant in our prisons and, considerations of a humane nature aside, it is far less costly to prevent the spread of these and other contagious diseases than it is to treat them.

What do you want: An inmate to be released with a bit more education or a few more work skills and a chance to become a productive member of society or for him to be released bitter, worse off than when he was imprisoned physically and emotionally unwell, without skills or resources?
And really, what kind of society are we if we condone treating humans, even criminals, in a manner that it would be illegal to treat a housepet?

Answer 4

Thank you for your question. Here is a different way to think about it that might be of some help. I think we treat prisioners fairly not for their sakes, but for our own. As a society, if we start dehumanizing and mistreating other human beings, even the guilty, then we weaken the decency, honor and respect of our own community. Germany and Japan were cultures stained by how they treated their prisoners in WWII. I would not want us to sink to that level.

Answer 5

no..... they are citizens just as much as we are!