Solitary Confinement Experiment

Methods This will be a explorative research, as it appears during research that no one has taken to the to actually investigate the psychological effects of solitary confinement, other to interview prisoners who have spent time in such facilities. The experiment will be conducted in order to evaluate whether or not time in Solitary Confinement is associated with future diagnosed psychological issues amongst prisoners. In order to prove my hypothesis I will perform an experiment. The experiment will exclude individuals who are already suffering from psychological issues prior to being accepted as a subject in the experiment. The study will include two experimental groups and a controlled group of individuals whom will be paid to spend time in a prison simulation. The results of this experiment will be qualitative as the ability to quantify someone psychological state would not be beneficial in this experiment.
Participants
There will be a total of 30 male subjects between the ages of 21 years old and 35 …show more content…
The subjects will be broken down into three groups of ten with each group containing individuals from each economic class. The controlled group of individuals will spend seven days in the simulated general population prison. They will be fed three times a day, entitled to television time, one phone call every two days and yard time. The remaining two groups will be the experimental group. Both experimental group A and B will start out in solitary confinement from the moment they arrive at the site. They will be confined to their cells twenty-three of the twenty-four hours of the day and given thirty minutes of yard time and thirty minutes of shower time with no interaction with the guards or any other inmates. They will not be allowed to make a phone call nor will they be allowed any television time. Their cell will consist of no windows, a door, a toilet and no personal