Ethical Consideration prisoners

Ethical Consideration prisoners

Ethical Consideration prisoners

Introduction

The ethical treatment of prisoners must be analyzed due to which million of people are incarcerated throughout the United States. It is necessary that we should analyze the ethical treatment of prisoners. The prisoners in the prison system are flourishing all over the world. These gangs have a major influence on the life of other prisoners and their well-being (Curry 1998). Also, it is affecting the administrators and staff of the prison system, who are responsible for peace and safety for all prisoners in the prison. However, it can also be said that these sub-groups or gangs play an essential role in stabilizing the inmate environment (by protecting these people from exploitation, assaults, or any other harm (Grassian, 1983).

Ethical treatment of prisoners

A research conducted over 80,000 prisoners in the US concluded that the prisoners who were embedded in these sub-groups or gangs were more violent that the people who were peripherally involved. Also, people who were peripherally involved in these groups or gangs were more violent than those who were unaffiliated (Pollack, 2006)

Utilitarianism

It provides the theoretical foundation regarding the moral decision making. This method is associated with one problem which deals with the fact that people maximization of happiness is based on morality. The US history shows how prisoners were treated at that time. It was before, considering the recent time the ethical issues have changed. Administration pays significant attention to gather the intelligence within and outside the prison in order to maintain the safety and security of the prison. For this purpose, intelligence officers are hired (one for each of the sub-groups and gangs) to identify every behavior or conflicting issues between or within them to protect all prisoners around them.

Relativism

It is an idealistic theory of relativity, conditionality and subjectivity ...