Is it lawful or humane for the state to dole out additional punishment to prisoners for a medical condition?
The New York Times published an article about an inmate, Albert Knox, who tested positive for HIV his first week in prison.
Is it lawful or humane for the state to dole out additional punishment to prisoners for a medical condition?
The New York Times published an article about an inmate, Albert Knox, who tested positive for HIV his first week in prison.
In July, Fox News reported on a “mass shakedown” at the Tamms Correctional Facility in Illinois. The subject of search and seizure was not the prisoners and illegal contraband; it was the guards and administrative staff. The shakedowns did not occur early in the morning as the workers arrived at Tamms, but in the evening before they clocked out—strange because the fear is usually of what will be brought into prisons, not what could be taken out.
The national cost of corrections has quadrupled in the past two decades—to over $52 billion a year, according to a New York Times op-ed on April 27, 2011. This makes prison spending the second-fastest growing budget issue after Medicaid.
New York, with the fourth largest prison system in the nation, is no exception to the trend.
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