Abuse In Prisons

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When one hears about the abuse of a child, they are immediately moved and feel pity for the kid. However, when one hears about the mistreatment of prisoners, one does not feel the same way more or less because they believe that the prisoner deserves whatever comes to them. Mistreatment of prisoners in the United States is not as uncommon as many may think. In American prisons today, deliberate staff brutality and degrading treatment of inmates occur across the country with distressing frequency. According to CBS News in 2009, 60,000 inmates are sexually abused every year; unfortunately, this number does not even include the number of physically abused inmates along with that. These prisoners do not deserve the abuse that comes to them, many of which are undeserving. Although they are convicts for a reason, they are foremost human beings.

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For physical abuse, Human Rights Watch says this, “In recent years, U.S. prison inmates have been beaten with fists and batons, stomped on, kicked, shot, stunned with electronic devices, doused with chemical sprays, choked, and slammed face first onto concrete floors by the officers whose job it is to guard them. Inmates have ended up with broken jaws, smashed ribs, perforated eardrums, missing teeth, burn scars—not to mention psychological scars and emotional pain. Some have died” (“How Different are U.S. Prisons,” 2004). There have been a couple instances of death within the past couple years in Florida. A man by the name of Rainey was killed by a prison guard, “ a mentally ill man serving a two-year prison sentence for a nonviolent crime of cocaine possession, defecated in his cell and refused to clean it up. In response, guards allegedly forced him to stand in a tiny shower cell under scalding hot water for almost two hours. Fellow inmates

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