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Why Do Inmates Deserve Civil Rights

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In this debate paper, the topic of why inmates deserve civil rights and what negative outcomes can result in if inmates weren’t treated in a humane way. Every human citizen has civil rights, which includes inmates. Inmates are put in prison and are looked down upon by society because of the crimes that have been committed. It wouldn’t help an inmate to improve if they aren’t being treated with the respect and have the basic rights that they deserve. Inmates that do not receive the respect they deserve will not get the idea of how to respect others. Although crimes have been committed, it’s not too late to change the behavior of inmates. With the help of rehabilitation, it’s less likely for offenders to re-offend when they are released from …show more content…

Principles are for citizens to live and to be

treated with respect, fairness and equality. Without basic principles, citizens would live their

lives in fear of discrimination and interference from others. Although inmates have some rights

revoked, such as restriction of physical freedom, they still deserve to be treated in a humane way.

Each individual inmate has committed a different level of crime and some inmates being

imprisoned could be framed for someone else’s wrongdoing therefore, it would not be fair for

that inmate to not have civil rights when that person did not do anything.

Many people seem to have very misleading views of the type of people who end up in

prison, such as how they got there and the legitimacy of the system that put them there. But

many of the people who end up on the “wrong side of the law’’ are actually decent

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