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This website advocates for human rights for inmates.  Specifically, the site discusses the need to insure humane treatment of prisoners and the prevention of cruel and unusual punishment, such as the overuse of solitary confinement.

The prison system and its flaws is one that is much overlooked in today's society as far as problems that could be fixed. This article explains the flaws and the fixations that should happen I considered this a personal freedom because even thought hey are prisoners , they have the right to still be treated as human beings.

About a year ago, a film came out showcasing the ins and out of the medical marijuana industry, a year later, many of the people in the film were idicted on federal drug charges and were given years in prison, one even died. The sad part? Most of these people lived in states where their profession is legal.

Website for prison population, stats on federal and state.

Now this article is a bit old but all the information in it still pertains to today's day and age since nothing has been fixed with the prison system's healthcare. More and more costs upon a rising budget for prisons due to overcrowding.

This article talks about whether child rapists and child molesters should get the death penalty or at least a life sentence for their crimes. It talks about how child molestes and Rapists have to easy of a punishment right now. They go to prison for a bit, get out, and hurt another child with no remorse.And Child molesters and Rapists cannot be rehabilitated.

Could you imagine having to put a sign in your yard that stated: "DANGER: REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER LIVES HERE." Juan Garcia made a huge stupid mistake by touching a 14 year old girl. He did his time in prison for it. Should he have to deal with it for the rest of his life? Should they be registered everywhere for everyone to see? Juan's whole life changed because of one mistake. He will pay for it by being embarrassed and always looking over his shoulder.

Should bullying be a crime? When a girl from Massachusetts killed herself over a bully contoversy arose. She hasn't been the only teen to committ suicide because of bullying. Making someone committ suicide should not be taken lightly. Words are powerful and to a young teenager bullying and torment takes a huge toll on them. So if bullying comes a crime should someone get 6 months, a year, five years?

This article talks about how unjust it is not to allow gay marriage. It talks about all the benefits that gay couples miss out on, even if they've been together and shared a life together for 50 years, since they can't get married, the rights that are kept from them such as maybe seeing their dying partner in the hospital and so on. Things that married couples take for granted

Gay couples, not allowed to marry, cannot receive the same privileges that married couples receive, no matter how long they have "been together." Some rights include not being able to visit a spouse in prison, the rights to collect survivor's benefits as the spouse of a military veteran. Gay couples, in these instances are not receiving the same rights as straight couples.

This article outlines the suppression of personal freedoms during war. Many examples, both current and historical, are given of loss of individual liberties such as censoring the press, un-lawfully detaining prisoners of war, and overriding privacy laws for intelligence gathering.

Individuals are finding another way to educate their children. As each state has an education law that requires children to but in school. With home education children have the ability to learn and embrace their interests.

In this article, the author talks about the public schooling system as a forced act on our society that actually makes the future of education worse for us. Instead of letting our children think for themselves, learn the trades they wish to learn, and force them to attend for a certain amount of time, we are taking away their personal freedoms of education. Many people are pushed to thinking that a set school rubric will help every child to get the education they need for their future, but according to the views of the author, they don't. The author's view is that society should be looking more into home schooling and trade schooling to help the United States grow to be more productive for the future. Every generation, school is seen more as a prison; molding our future to think as the way the government wants them to think. But if we were to give freedom to complete schooling outside of force, children will regain their excitement for learning and pursue to better our nation on their own free will.

An interesting article on the state of our education system and how the direction we have gone with it seems to be lacking. Lending itself to breaking the ideas that people have about how a child "must" learn, the article offers up that those ideas are not often the case.

The Supreme Court, in 1986, ruled that according to the Eight Amendment a legally insane, which is not the same as being mentally ill, prisoner could not be executed because it is "cruel and unusual punishment"(Davison and Neale, p539).