1.
According to the textbook, prison reform is often effectuated by
and through the legislature. Often, these changes are meant for
improvement; however, they can have an unintended
consequence. Imagine that you are a state legislator that heads a
committee for the Department of Corrections. Your
responsibilities include recommending improvements to the
correctional system, both domestic and international, (e.g.,
Guantanamo Bay). Go to Cornell University Law School’s
Website, located at
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/eighth_amendment
, and review the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Write a 4 page paper in which you:
Suggest two actions that the corrections system can take in
order to ensure that their officers adhere to the principals of
professional conduct as stated by the correctional officers’
organization at
http://www.correctionalofficer.org/professional-conduct
. Provide a rationale for your response.
Take a position as to whether or not conditions of correctional
facilities circumvent the “cruel and unusual punishment
standard” of the Eighth Amendment. Provide a rationale for
your response.
Support or refute the removal of capital punishment from the
U.S. corrections system. Provide a rationale for your response.
Create an argument for or against intermediate sanctions as a
deterrent of crime. Support your viewpoint with one example of
intermediate sanctions from within the last three years that
reflects your opinion.

2.
Debate whether or not correctional officers are adequately
equipped to deal with mentally ill inmates. Provide a rationale
for your response.
Use at least three quality references.
Note:
Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic
resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
This course requires that citations and references follow the
Strayer Writing Standards (SWS
). The format is different than others Strayer University courses.
Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for
details.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.