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article on why prison reform will improve the overall effectiveness of imprisonment. plus, the adverse effeteness imprisonment has on more than than just the prisoner.

There is a long list of issues our nation has with prison. It's unsanitary, the food doesn't support a healthy diet. The lack of safety is a huge concern. This website explains many issues with American prison and list possibilities to change it.

The detrimental impact of imprisonment, not only on individuals but on families and communities also need to be taken into account. Central to the arguments to promote prison reforms is a human rights argument.

Prisoners are not allowed to donate their organs for unclear reasons. This article explains the benefits of inmates being allowed to donate.

This article talks about how the number of deaths increased has a close correlation in the unfair conditions these prisoners face with little to no health care. Most of the deaths in a prison are related to mental illness or health care. Other countries have laws to protect the prisoners but here in the US they are not treated as they should be.

A good resource that lists prisoner's basic rights and expectations while serving time. It points out the constitutional rights they maintain and reviews other rights that have been challenged in Court. I do believe that prisoners deserve to keep their basic human rights and these should not be compromised.

Until relatively recently the view prevailed that a prisoner "has, as a consequence of his crime, not only forfeited his liberty, but all his personal rights except those which the law in its humanity accords to him.

A man named Curtis Wilkerson is thrown in prison for life for stealing a pair of white socks worth 2.50$ because of the 3 strikes law in California. although he served as a lookout in a robbery 14 years earlier, he had basically turned his life around up to this point.

This site gives a brief description of voter suppression within the Untied States. It details what voter suppression entails, such as roll purges, prison voting bans, ID laws, etc.