Inmate Rights vs. Privileges. Know the difference. 

Brian Geiswite I am honored that you are watching my channel. Let me thank you. An good luck on your training. I am sure you will be a brother soon enough. So let me be the first to welcome you to the family.

Thank you very much sir! 🫡, this video was very informative, detailed and thoroughly explained the difference between your rights/privilege as an inmate. Now I know my rights were violated as an inmate, and I will be able to file a lawsuit. God bless you sir!

It Is offered to them and provided to them in any format they may need

Except a youtube channel. From my experience of being locked up...the handbooks are usually the only thing that an inmate gets...and usually it just points out that everything you spoke about is a privilege. Its all vague...just like the 8th amendment of cruel and unusual punishment. Treating a non violent inmate before conviction like a convicted murderer is pretty cruel. I respect your role of one who watches over secure facilities...but the fact is most inmates are not as informed as they should be.

Your experience may not speak for most. I can tell you from my experience inmates are well informed. Some have actually abused the system by using their rights for malicious reasons. In my experience, when inmates write complaints or grievances, they are very well informed of what they feel is being violated. Sometimes they are being helped from the outside or being helped from the inside. The problem that exist in Corrections is that people try to generalize change based on extremes or one time occurrences and that is something that needs to stop immediately. It is getting people killed. People on the outside focus on the one while we on the inside focus on the many. .

Thank you sir. I wish more people could see it that way

Chispa thank you for the compliment. If there is a threat to visits in general (contraband coming in) and it can not be identified, then you have no choice but to lock it down. Universal precaution. But if you know what the issue is, and who is responsible, then you should hold them responsible without generalizing the punishment to the rest of the population. So I agree with you in regards to being fair. You are one hundred percent correct. In my example, we know who the inmate is taking advantage of the privilege.

Thank you for watching

An inmate has a right to put anyone on their visit card. Then there will be a background check. If the person passes the background check and there are no security concerns, the people added should be free to visit (once they show the proper form of ID). So, I don’t disagree with you. Visits, if being done for the right reasons, can aid in rehabilitation. But if visits are misused, they there needs to be some form of actions whether we do a ban (visitor is no longer allowed access or ban on contact visits, or, if need be, depending on how severe, ban on visits in general). It truly is a case by case basis. But I understand your perspective.

They are. But the privileges we have control of in our efforts to manage behaviors.

@@TierTalk Everything has to be documented and written down so that an inmate can look at it anytime. Just like laws and rules and regulations.

@@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet it is. They are given rule books that they must adhere too. And there is always documentation through our disciplinary actions.

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Max Cruz I agree. That’s why we always have to make sure that we don’t make every privilege a right.

Really. How awesome is that. Welcome to the channel. Was this channel recommended by the professor. Lol

@@TierTalk yes it was lol. My assignment is “please watch the following educational video and list your thoughts and opinions on it” haha