What Is Solitary Confinement In Prison

Solitary confinement should be removed from the U.S. prison system, due to the severe adverse mental and physical impacts it has on any person subjected to it. Prison is meant not only to keep away the dangerous people in society, but it is meant to reform and rehabilitate those people so they can actually function in society once they’re released. There are over 2.4 million people currently in prison in America, and statistically speaking over 50% of those people will become re-offenders after they are released. According to a report done by the Department of Justice, 404,638 state prisoners were released in 2005. After approximately three years, 67.8% of those released prisoners committed another crime. Additionally, according to the website American Friends Service Committee, of the over 2.4 million people in U.S. prisons about 80,000 are currently in solitary confinement for reasons ranging from protective custody and contraband possession, to violent attacks on other inmates and guards. Now to those of you who do not know what solitary confinement, imagine being confined to a room about the size of your bathroom for 22 - 24 hours a day with no human interaction. Constantly being awakened by the sound of other inmates yelling and pounding on their metal doors, while barely being fed on a regular schedule with the air …show more content…
I must ask anyone who may read this letter to tell your friends and family about the horrors that people face in solitary confinement. Take to social media to post about cases of neglect caused by solitary confinement. Even though there has been sufficient evidence for several years to show that solitary confinement is a torture method used by our prison systems to suppress troublesome, annoying, or just plain sick inmates, there is still no change in the right direction. For all of these reasons, this is why I strongly believe that the use of solitary confinement should be