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(15 pp) The thesis question for this paper: Is the
treatment of prison inmates handled in an ethical
manner? Areas of medical care, mental health, and
death and dying will be examined. Bibliography
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new victims every day of the year. No holidays, no sick days, no vacations. The biggest loser, (is) our free, democratic society." Bloomfield then asks, " Which person do you
want as a neighbor? A man or a woman who has been to prison and has had the opportunity to change the behaviors that got them locked up, whose mental
illness or drug addiction has been professionally treated, whose dignity has been restored and whose future contains hope, or do you want as a neighbor someone who has been warehoused,
whose problems have been ignored, whose humanity has been denied, and who leaves prison embittered, drug addicted, angry and unemployable?" Certainly this is a compelling way of looking at
those who are currently in prison - one day, they may be your neighbor, or mine. Ethics Values: Omar Bradley (1998) claims that values, obligations and ethics are all
related. According to Bradley, "Values are attitudes about the worth or importance of people, concepts, or things. Values are assessments about preference, and serve as standards of judgment."
Bradley is speaking about the qualities that he perceives are the necessary elements of a professional. We might ask if a society has similar standards, or does it expect
its professionals values to be a "cut above" its own. In terms of the prison environment, we know that our current United States society incarcerates a higher
percentage of its citizens, than any other country in the free world. Would that statistic lead us to believe that societys values are looking at "worth or importance of
people," or of perceived and solidified concepts? Bradley believes that values can be divided into two areas: "stated" and "operational." In the case of prisons we might like to
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