However are protocols followed to ensure that the constitutional rights of supermax inmates are met, practiced, and legitimate? (Mears, 2013, p. 692) There is no real form of corrections being implemented besides taking away the rights of the individual. Essentially have a criminal locked away for 23-hours a day is much like using the taxpayers dollars to pay for a strict adult day care service. Without any means of rehabilitation or restoration the criminal is going to resort back to a life of crime. A conducted interview by Spunk.org addresses life after supermax prisons by asking John Perotti about his prior experience. He writes after having spent a 12 year sentence in and out of control units or other words solitary confinement that “Every aspect of life in the control units is meant to debase and degrade a prisoner’s very soul, the purpose being that when released to the general population where conditions are somewhat improved, the prisoner causes no problems due to fear of being sent back”(“What is a Supermax Prison,”n.d., para.
However are protocols followed to ensure that the constitutional rights of supermax inmates are met, practiced, and legitimate? (Mears, 2013, p. 692) There is no real form of corrections being implemented besides taking away the rights of the individual. Essentially have a criminal locked away for 23-hours a day is much like using the taxpayers dollars to pay for a strict adult day care service. Without any means of rehabilitation or restoration the criminal is going to resort back to a life of crime. A conducted interview by Spunk.org addresses life after supermax prisons by asking John Perotti about his prior experience. He writes after having spent a 12 year sentence in and out of control units or other words solitary confinement that “Every aspect of life in the control units is meant to debase and degrade a prisoner’s very soul, the purpose being that when released to the general population where conditions are somewhat improved, the prisoner causes no problems due to fear of being sent back”(“What is a Supermax Prison,”n.d., para.