Reflection On Prison Tour

When I first heard about the prison the PD had set up I was nervous because of all of the shows and comments I had heard and see about prison, but I decided to attended because it would be a good learning experience, so on October 31 I went on a prison tour. Walking into the prison I was scared because I was going into a place that held criminals but after getting a tour I released that they had a very secure system. Our first stop on the tour of the prison was the solitary confinement section. In this section we learned that only two types of prisoners went into this place the inmates that did awful acts and the inmates who wanted protection from sexual assault (rapist). Rape is the unwanted intimate knowledge of another human being (BAYLY). …show more content…
While they knew what this boy was doing they had to watch him. While this boy was not in any serious danger at the hands of himself this is a good example of what the book talks about when you get sexually assaulted. The book says that when sexual assault happens the person can become very depressed or desperate for a way out and threaten there life (BOOK). This is like why most of the people in solitary are rapist, they found a way out of getting sexual abused. The guard in charge of this section told us what happens to the inmates in their daily lives that they mainly stay in the cell only to come out for one hour a day after being stripped searched. They guard also talked about how the inmates in this section may get more free time when a specific act pertaining to jails passes because it is seen as inhumane to only give a human contact one hour a day. While the article What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind? By PBS states that there are astonishing effects on the mental ability going into and coming out of solitary confinement (PBS). This article gives two examples of experiments that tested solitary confinement one with monkeys and one with