The Solitary Reaper

will spend more than 120 days there.”(Winter, par. 13) Solitary confinement is not something anyone is willing to talk about because it involves people society deems as outcasts so we sweep it under the rug and ignore the issue. What many canadians do not know is that solitary confinement is classified as a form of torture by the United Nations due to to its severe mental effects. There are many things wrong with the correctional system but solitary confinement ignored human rights in order to…

Prisons: Protests, Disturbances, and Riots mention that “administrative-control theory postulates that inmates come to experience a sense of injustice…” (1999, pg.327). Injustice would give reason for the inmates a reason to protest. In the Plot from Solitary, Ashker initiated the hunger-strike, along with three other inmates who shared a pod with him, to protest that the…

mysterious wallpaper. Being so bored had an effect of unstable thoughts on Jane. She was in fact becoming psychotic due to her solitary…

Conversations revolving around the prison system are not black and white, there is a large grey area. Within that grey area are the topics, most individuals do not care to speak about or even avoid the subject. In the YouTube videos Prison: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Prisoner Re-entry: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that were posted to the Last Week Tonight account, discussed the topics most individuals ignore. When people are incarcerated, they lose almost all of their voice…

Sitting in jail isn't fun. Sitting in a cage with guards all around you, is also no fun. This pretty much sums up Y/N's stay at Belle Reve Penitentiary. The guards where to be stationed around her so-called "cell", twenty-four seven. It wasn't even a cell, it was a cage that sat in the middle of an open space. The positioning of the guards wasn't the case however. The guards stood at attention for the first month or so. This wasn't because Y/N was a dangerous criminal, well she sort of was of…

Introduction: Opium Smokers in an Opium Den, Qing Dynasty It was way past sunrise, and yet no one could be seen in the streets. There was no one walking around, tilling the fields, or preparing for a new day. Instead, people gathered around a small, round table with their metal pipes, pumping the smoke in and out of their throat. The sound of the inhale and exhale was all a visitor could hear. People then lay down for hours at a time, caring about nothing but fulfilling their daily cravings…

Solitary Confinement can be defined as being the physical isolation of individuals who are confined to their cells for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day. Within countless jurisdictions, prisoners are allowed out of their cells for only one hour of solitary exercise. Prisoners are only subjected to routine visits from members of the prison staff, while meaningful contact with other people is typically reduced to the bare minimum. This reduction in stimuli is not only on the grounds of…

Stuck in a dark room, not knowing the location or time, there are two choices to choose from, calmness or violence. Calmness will only last for a short amount of time unlike violence which will overpower the calmness rapidly. As if the boys in the Lord of the Flies by William Golding were stuck in a dark room, they were stuck on an island without knowing the location or time. Calmness and violence appear on the island through different characters and in the end violence, or savagery, wins over…

The origin of torture dates back to 530 A.D. when the Romans used interrogated slaves and lower-class citizens. Today, there are international and domestic laws against the use of torture during interrogations. The United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment defines torture as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person…

be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.” In this case, we are raising awareness surrounding solitary confinement in UK prisons. We will be organizing a book drive to donate books to HM Prison Feltham to use during solitary confinement procedures. HM Prison Feltham is a male juvenile prison, known for using practices of solitary confinement. The book drive is held in Hyde Park, in London. We will spread the word about the event before the date, and we are…