Stop Solitary For Kids Campaign Analysis

The campaign I chose for this assignment is Stop Solitary for Kids, and the primary concern is terminating solitary confinement on children and adults. The reasons why the campaign believes in ending confinement is since it causes a negative impact it has on a person such as mental health issues, depression and a higher risk of suicide. The campaign intends to eliminate solitary confinement by discussing alternatives the jails and prisons can practice instead. This campaign continues to do various efforts to ultimate confinement such as work with the government and teach public education to people about confinement, policy reform, improving facility practices and much more. The reason why this is relevant to this course is that it is often …show more content…
Although the youth has committed a crime, people tend to sympathize with youth being hurt and often people hope for the success of the youth to change and become a “model citizen” oppose to an adult. I would consider that strength that this campaign has because people are sympathetic to youth compared to adults. Some other strengths are that four different organizations are working on this campaign thus having different connections, resources, and research on the topic that the others may not have. Some weakness that it does that is that it is a new campaign and it has not been heard of that much compared to other campaigns that have been in the United States for awhile. Another weakness is that the campaign is going against something that has been in history for many years and is seen as “okay” in society. There are different pros if Stop Solitary for Kids is successful such as youth leaving prison or jail without any mental health issues, a decrease in depression, suicide, and anxiety due to confinement. The youth has a chance to go back into society and become the model citizen, which is the prison or jail goal for the inmate anyhow. Although the con would be, that jails and prisons would need to find another way to punish and scare their inmates to keep control over them. Other than that I do not see any other con to stopping solitary confinement on