Overpopulated Prison Ethical Study

Introduction Ethics is defined as the “discipline of deterring good and evil and defining moral duties” (Pollock, 2017). Ethics plays an essential and important role in our criminal justice system. Without ethics, our criminal justice system would have little to no meaning. This is because “ethics are the foundation of our criminal justice system: it’s what helped us develop the moral reasoning we use, how we define criminal activity, and what we as a society deem as acceptable punishment” (Gruber, n.d.). With is this said, ethical provides our criminal justice system with some ethical standards. Also, ethics allows our criminal justice system to be as fair, equal, and impartial as possible.
However, despite the important of ethics

In addition to the increase of blood pressure, prisoners are more vulnerable to illness. Another effect that overpopulated prisons have on prisoners is an increase in stress levels. Higher stress levels have been shown to affect prisoners physically and psychologically. Overpopulated prisons have also shown an increase of disciplinary infractions because of lack of personal space. The lack of personal space increases a prisoner’s level of insecurity, which affects their mental and physical health. This is because overcrowding prisons forces a prisoner to adopt to a different social environment, which increases a prisoner’s level of insecurity. For

Cut backs on programs and other activates can affect prisoners in many ways. One of the biggest effects on prisoner was the lack of basic education that prisoners needed. An example of this problem is displayed California prisons. In 1992 a study found “that approximately 20.8%...read at below the third-grade level and another 30% were only marginally literate by accepted educational standards” (Haney, 2006). As years went on very little has change on this problem. In 2002, the California Department of Corrections reported that prisoners “read on average at no more than a seventh-grade level” (Haney, 2006). Lack of basic education has caused many ex-offenders to be incarcerated because many they don’t have the basic education they need to reintegrate into today’s