Prison Inmates

Introduction

When someone commits a crime is being investigated, judged and sentenced to deprivation of liberty, you have to enter a prison to meet with grief. Where do you send a thief, a drug dealer, a rapist, a murderer, a terrorist, given that the penalty is not only punishment, but mainly rehabilitation?. To get an idea, there are about 75 000 inmates, about 154 per 100,000 population. The proportionality between prison population and the general population also note the suitability of the Scandinavian social model as these countries have fewer than 80 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants.

Discussion

In managing the problem of terrorism have been installed too many exceptional elements in the Criminal Code, criminal procedural law in the treatment of prisoners, including political participation (with the law on political parties), to the point of making war dirty. Societies beset by a violent threat are permissive toward the exceptional, but now you start to see the end of harassment, without relating it to a process of abandonment of the weapons, the state should be mature enough to remove the huge complex array of exceptional and to combat terrorism (Zamble & Porporino). Persons serving a sentence in a prison are entitled to receive general information about their rights and duties, disciplinary rules and the means available to make requests, complaints or appeals in all the prisons in which to enter and not only in the first one.

It is expected that a person under investigation may be under house arrest under electronic bracelet or mobile instead of being remanded in custody. The development of sentence will be facilitated for successful reintegration. Prison sentences of less than two years will be converted (Zamble & Porporino). Inmates age 75 will be eligible for parole without waiting to have made at least half of their sentence; the seriously ...