The Adversity of Solitary Confinement
The people that are the most hated, least cared for and overlooked - prisoners. No one wants to bat an eye or reach out them. They are the ones that hurt the people and harm the other parts of society. People are well aware that they are privileged to have freedom in many aspect of their lives, but acknowledge that when those privileges are not used wisely they should be banished of all that they had and earned. Prisoners will always have the worse reputation in society, but the worst of the worst prisoners will be told that they deserve solitary confinement. Do they deserve every torturous punishment that exists? Do prisoners not deserve a second chance to life or does there second chance only exist …show more content…
“Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, which pioneered solitary confinement, is a castle of a prison that was meant to reform incarceration itself when it opened in 1829. The idea behind the prison's solitary confinement areas was to use sensory deprivation to reform inmates. The thought was that the isolation and quiet would free the innately good soul. ‘They believed that isolation here was going to bring about the best of these inmates. Change them for life. Make them penitent,’ says Sean Kelley, director of public programming at the historic site.” (Staff, NPR) Supporters of solitary confinement state that it is an added level of protection from the public and within the prison systems. Confinement still allows prisoners to serve their sentences and a few people may state that death inside jails is fairness serving itself, it also gives correctional officers another way to discipline and punish prisoners. On top of all these factors, solitary confinement for prisoners through the view of supports explain that it helps in the renewal of prisoners and be a recovery or change of character. Another point added from supporters of the criminal prison system of confinement is it can some way or another fulfill the interests of the casualties and individuals from people in general to see …show more content…
Notedly, the amount of hours a prisoner would spend in a small, compacted space to be isolated. “On average, they spend at least one year in a cell the size of a wheelchair-accessible bathroom stall, leaving only a few times a week, one at a time, for showers or exercise. Meals arrive through a slot in the cell door. Between the long hours in isolation and the steel doors, a prisoner might go days, or longer, without looking another person in the eye.” (Reiter, Keramet) Additionally, these prisoners will spend hours on end in this room with no exposure to people and gain no interaction to move on forward and be limited in opportunities. “Solitary confinement is a horrible place, I’ve seen what it is like in the solitary confinement unit, there is no type of rehabilitation that goes on there. Inmates can be in their cells for 23 out of 24 hours a day. People can start to hallucinate in solitary confinement, they can start to become delusional and people become extremely depressed. I remember when I was working at Northern State Prison, there was a lot of yelling and screaming that went on. If you think about it, people who are left in a tiny, little space with absolutely nobody to talk to, nothing to do, no interaction. You don’t know if it’s daylight out or if it’s nighttime out.” Prisoners live
The people that are the most hated, least cared for and overlooked - prisoners. No one wants to bat an eye or reach out them. They are the ones that hurt the people and harm the other parts of society. People are well aware that they are privileged to have freedom in many aspect of their lives, but acknowledge that when those privileges are not used wisely they should be banished of all that they had and earned. Prisoners will always have the worse reputation in society, but the worst of the worst prisoners will be told that they deserve solitary confinement. Do they deserve every torturous punishment that exists? Do prisoners not deserve a second chance to life or does there second chance only exist …show more content…
“Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, which pioneered solitary confinement, is a castle of a prison that was meant to reform incarceration itself when it opened in 1829. The idea behind the prison's solitary confinement areas was to use sensory deprivation to reform inmates. The thought was that the isolation and quiet would free the innately good soul. ‘They believed that isolation here was going to bring about the best of these inmates. Change them for life. Make them penitent,’ says Sean Kelley, director of public programming at the historic site.” (Staff, NPR) Supporters of solitary confinement state that it is an added level of protection from the public and within the prison systems. Confinement still allows prisoners to serve their sentences and a few people may state that death inside jails is fairness serving itself, it also gives correctional officers another way to discipline and punish prisoners. On top of all these factors, solitary confinement for prisoners through the view of supports explain that it helps in the renewal of prisoners and be a recovery or change of character. Another point added from supporters of the criminal prison system of confinement is it can some way or another fulfill the interests of the casualties and individuals from people in general to see …show more content…
Notedly, the amount of hours a prisoner would spend in a small, compacted space to be isolated. “On average, they spend at least one year in a cell the size of a wheelchair-accessible bathroom stall, leaving only a few times a week, one at a time, for showers or exercise. Meals arrive through a slot in the cell door. Between the long hours in isolation and the steel doors, a prisoner might go days, or longer, without looking another person in the eye.” (Reiter, Keramet) Additionally, these prisoners will spend hours on end in this room with no exposure to people and gain no interaction to move on forward and be limited in opportunities. “Solitary confinement is a horrible place, I’ve seen what it is like in the solitary confinement unit, there is no type of rehabilitation that goes on there. Inmates can be in their cells for 23 out of 24 hours a day. People can start to hallucinate in solitary confinement, they can start to become delusional and people become extremely depressed. I remember when I was working at Northern State Prison, there was a lot of yelling and screaming that went on. If you think about it, people who are left in a tiny, little space with absolutely nobody to talk to, nothing to do, no interaction. You don’t know if it’s daylight out or if it’s nighttime out.” Prisoners live