Informed Consent among Prisoners, Ethics

Professional Ethics Opinion #2
Prisoners can give informed consent freely depending on the imprisonment they are serving. If they are imprisoned in a psychiatric facility, then they should not be able to give informed consent because they are not in the right mind to give the consent. However, if they were imprisoned criminally, which I will assume, then possibly they would be in the right mind to make this kind of judgment. Looking at the fact that they have no rights as citizens and have been confined, it may be possible for them not to. …