Write a 3-to 5-page paper in which you:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Support or refute the removal of capital punishment from the U.S. corrections system. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. 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.
5. Debate whether or not correctional officers are adequately equipped to deal with mentally ill inmates. Provide a rationale for your response.
6. Use at least two quality references.

Include page numbers.… Use 1-inch margins.… Use numerals (1, 2, 3, and so on) or spell out numbers (one, two, three, and so on).… Double space body text in the assignment.… Use consistent 12-point font.… Use section headings to divide separate content areas. Center the section headings on thepage, be consistent, and include at least two section headings in the assignment.